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ANTHOPHILID.E. 
grey, with pale edges spotted with ochreous ; two pale zigzag discal lines ; costal margin 
black spotted with ochreous ; a marginal series of ochreous-edged black dots : secondaries 
shot with cupreous ; fringe grey, with a whitish basal line : head and abdomen ochreous ; 
collar and thorax dark fuliginous brown, with a transverse white bar on the metathorax. 
Wings below grey with golden reflections, irrorated with white; costal margin of primaries 
ochreous spotted with black : body below pale ochreous ; tarsi banded above with black. 
Expanse of wings 17 millira. 
Dharmsala. 
ANTHOPHILID^. 
HYDRELIA, Guen. 
Hydrelia auripalpis. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 8.) 
Primai'ies dull chocolate-brown, traversed by four series of white dots, the first and third 
of which represent the outlines of the central belt ; the second dots of the second and fourth 
series attached to small black spots; four yellowish costal dots beyond the cell; fringe 
traversed by two dusky lines : secondaries greyish brown ; fringe slightly golden : body purplish 
brown ; head and collar brownish testaceous ; palpi, front legs, and tibiae of second pair of 
legs bright saffron-yellow ; pectus grey ; remainder of under surface shining brown. Expanse 
of wings 18 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Hydrelia opalescens. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 10.) 
Allied to the preceding species ; larger : the primaries more acuminate; pale coffee-brown 
washed with lilac, the belt enclosed between the ordinary lines paler and therefore showing 
the lilac tint more perfectly ; a short comma-like costal dash near the base ; a widely zigzag 
line commencing at basal third of costa and terminating before the middle of inner margin ; 
a second line commencing obliquely before the middle of costal margin, then turning and 
following the subcostal vein almost to apex, then curved downwards, forming an elbow above 
upper radial vein and returning obliquely to just beyond the middle of inner margin ; lastly, 
a submarginal series of points, all pale lilac; reniform stigma represented by two small black- 
centred lilac spots, almost forming a figure 8 ; a black apical spot ; fringe with a tawny basal 
and a whitish subterminal line : secondaries whitish, with greyish difi^used external border 
and golden-testaceous fringe : thorax bright coffee-red ; abdomen opaline grey, with coffee- 
coloured crest; palpi bright saffron-yellow, legs paler. Primaries below cupreous brown, 
costal border golden, inner border dead white ; fringe as above : secondaries with the apical 
