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connected-conical brown or black spots^ followed by a white stripe at tlie base of the fringe ; 
remainder of fringe grey^ darker at the end of the veins, and traversed by a slender whitish 
line : secondaries pale sericeous grey, slightly darker at apex ; fringe creamy whitish : body 
grey; palpi brown. Primaries below shining grey, with golden brown reflections; costal margin 
beyond the middle black, spotted witli pure white ; fringe more uniformly coloured and more 
sericeous than above : secondaries sordid whitish or whity brown, irrorated with darker 
scales, and with a slender black marginal line : body below whitish grey. Expanse of wings 
29 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
A common species, somewhat resembling a Plusia or Plmiodonta. 
EhyncMna sagittata. (Plate CXXXIII. figs. 10, 1 1.) 
Primaries reddish to greyish brown, the basal half dotted with black scales ; an irre- 
gularly sinuated, partly black-edged silver- greyish stripe (obsolete in the male) across the 
basal third; a short, oblique, ill-defined costal bar united to an indistinct B-shaped " reni- 
f orm " spot, and followed immediately by an unequally angulated, oblique, partly black-edged 
subsigmoidal central stripe ; an acutely denticulated discal stripe near outer margin, and a 
squamose external border (all these markings are silvery or ash-grey in the female ; in the 
male they are indistinct or wanting) ; three black subapical sagittate markings, the central 
one continued in an oblique line to apex ; costal margin towards apex blackish with pale 
spots ; fringe nearly as in the preceding species : secondaries pale brownish grey ; basi-costal 
area and fringe sordid white : thorax corresponding in colour with the primaries ; abdomen 
grey. Primaries below sericeous grey ; costa irrorated with paler scales : secondaries sordid 
white, irrorated with gi'eyish-brown scales and with a discocellular lunuleof the same colour ; 
a slender blackish marginal line : body below silvery white. Expanse of wings, 6 28, $ 31 
millim. 
Dharmsala; taken by beating. 
Somewhat allied to R. plusioides, and equally abundant ; a singular variety occurs in 
which there is a large basi-internal whitish oblong patch on the primaries. 
Ehynchina caerulescens. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 12.) 
Primaries pale pearly bluish, irrorated and banded with cofFce-bi'own ; two dark grey 
conical spots dividing the costal border into three nearly equal parts ; discoidal spot ]-ounded, 
outlined in brown, and connected with the inner margin by two oblique coifee-brown lines, 
the inner one opposite to the inner costal grey spot and connected with it by a pearly-white 
angular stripe, the outer one followed by a pearly-white stripe enclosing a darker brown 
line ; a diffused brown band tapering from inner margin near external angle to the outer 
margin just below the apex; three longitudinal costal blackish dashes just before the apex; 
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