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THEEMESIID^.— IIYPENID^. 
line and a small black subapical spot close to outer margin : secondaries rosy greyish, 
irrorated with blackish, and crossed by a cupreous-brown arched central stripe ; a slender 
blackish marginal line : body pearl-grey ; the head and collar smoky grey ; thorax slightly 
rosy. Under surface rosy greyish : the secondaries almost wholly white in the male, 
irrorated with dark grey, and with a very slender blackish marginal line. Expanse of wings 
J 23, 2 26 millim. 
Kangra valley, 
"The male folds its wings curiously, flutters like a cripple until approached, then flies 
a short distance and repeats the performance." The species was confounded with Dirades 
theclata, the male of which it much resembles. 
ORUDIZA, Walk. 
Orudiza columbaris. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 8.) 
Sericeous dove-grey ; the wings, especially on the basal half, mottled with smoky grey, 
tending to form transverse lines ; fringe ochraceous, spotted witb blackish : primaries with a 
dusky discocellular spot ; costal margin witb golden reflections : antennje and anal valves 
creamy whitish. Wings below less mottled than above ; venter whitish. Expanse of wings 
26 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
The irregularity of the outline and the markings on the wings of this species are far 
less pronounced than in the lai'ger 0. prothec/aria. 
HYPENID^. 
RHYNCHINA, Guen. 
Rhynchina plusioides. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 9.) 
Primaries with the basi-costal half greyish brown, suffused with silver-grey and more 
or less irrorated with white, its outer edge biangulated and very oblique ; crossed at basal 
third by a single or double, more or less distinct brown ^-shaped line ; discoidal spots ill- 
defined, outlined in black, or wholly obliterated ; remainder of wing dark greyish or reddish- 
brown ; the bases of the second and third median branches and of the lower radial vein 
snow-white ; a double oblique central black line from the inner margin to the cell, and a 
difl"used, more or less pronounced, biangulated, smoky-grey tapering band, enclosing several 
short black dashes, from the inner margin (beyond the double line) to the apex ; a white 
transverse crescent limiting the band near external angle ; a marginal series of depressed 
