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the corresponding shade of the hindwing broader, on the underside rounded anteriorly (in meonaria angulated). 
I only know the true meonaria from N. W. India. 
Rh. grumaria Alph. (3 i). We give a figure of this very distinct species, drawn from a Koko-Nor g grmnaria. 
in the Tring Museum. 
Rh. oxyntis sp. n. (3 i). Like glaucofusa Hmpsn. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 d) but much smaller (29 mm), wings oxyntis. 
more pointed, especially the hindwing, which has the termen straight from the 1st radial almost to the anal 
angle; colom’ much browner (drab or slightly more brownish), pale markings more slender, postmedian line 
of hindwing almost straight from its subcostal bend to the hindmargin. Afghanistan: Logar Valley ( H. Ro- 
berts), a $ in the British Museum collection. 
Rh. rhodospania sp. n. (3 i) belongs to the calabra- group by tibial armature and venation, though the rhodoapa- 
single proximal spur is exceptionally short. Ground-colour nearly as in cinerascens, slightly more olive-tinged, 
wings somewhat less narrow; the characteristic pink colouring of Rhodostrophia shows itself only on the fringes 
and on the costal margin of the forewing. Hindwing above strongly marked, recalling those of jacularia (Vol. 4. 
pi. 3 e) and glaucofusa ; beneath paler, without the dark terminal shade. Forewing beneath nearly as above. 
Beluchistan: Khan Mehterzai, 7000 ft. (Capt. D. Harrison), type £ in coll. British Museum. May be placed 
next to glaucof usa. - 
Rh. erythema Prout (4 a) should be placed next to praecisaria (Vol. 4, pi. 3 d as badiaria), to which erythema. 
it is certainly very closely related, possibly a colour-form. Forewing less produced apically (shaped more as 
in badiaria), fawn-colour with a very decided tinge of vinaceous; antemedian of forewing angled at both 
folds, median rather near the cell-spot. E. Bokhara: Peter the Great Range. 
Rh. inconspicua Btlr.. We figure a A of the form subconspicua Prt. (3 i), which I now regard as only subconspi- 
an ab. 
Rh. cuprinaria Christ. (= phaenicearia Hmps.). The synonymy given in Vol. 4 (p. 42) is correct, although cuprinaria. 
by oversight we altered the spelling of the synonym; I have now seen several specimens which were determined 
by Christoph himself. 
Rh. anchotera sp. n. (4a). Very similar to acidaria, Vol. 4, pi. 3d), but the hindtibia with only 3 spurs; anchotera. 
cell of forewing relatively a trifle shorter, antemedian less sharply angled near costa, rather less oblique 
and almost straight behind the angle, postmedian with its outer line or shade more diffuse, subterminal 
more diffuse, no suffusion close to termen, hindwing a trifle more elongate anteriorly, paler, cell-dot minute, 
postmedian shade faint, subterminal less sinuous. S. of Midi (Szechuan) at 8850 feet, 29 March 1929 (Kelley- 
Roosevelt Expedition), 1 A i n Tring Museum. 
Rh. herbicolens Btlr. (4 a). We figure a typical $ from Kasauli. The known range of herbicolens only herbicolens. 
extends from the Simla district to Dalhousie. 
Rh. peregrina Roll. ( = rara Btlr.) was recognizably described nearly 90 years ago, from a Masuri peregrina. 
but was referred to the genus Aspilates and was not determined by the early students of the Indian Geometridae. 
The type is still extant, but I had resuscitated the name long before I saw it. The Sikkim “race” olivacea 
Warr. (see Vol. 4, p. 43) must be regarded as a separate species. 
Rh. pelloniaria Guen., of which the type-locality was given merely as “Indes Orientales”, is identical pelloniaria. 
with the purely Indo-Australian form which Moore re-described as khasiana. — meonodes subsp. nov. (4 a), meonodes. 
from N. TV. India (type from Kulu, in Tring Museum) is paler, more recalling meonaria, though still with an 
olive tint, crimson markings, subterminal line indicated. The specimen from Dalhousie, mentioned in Vol. 4 
(p. 40) as an aberration of meonaria with the 2nd subcostal stalked with the 3rd—-5th, clearly belongs to meo¬ 
nodes , in which this venation is normal. The <$<$ which I have seen from Kumaon agree with this race rather 
than with that of Sikkim-Assam. 
Rh. yunnanaria Ob. (3 i), from Tse-kou, Chinese Tibet, is said to be “very near pelloniaria” but is ynnnana- 
smaller, the wings more rounded, lines more parallel, notably on the underside of the forewing; $ antennal rm ' 
pectinations less long. There is a possibility that it may prove to be a more heavily marked form of ple- 
siochora (3 i), unless yunnanaria is rounder-winged. 
Rh. bisinuata Warr. (= sinensis Prout) (4 b). In temporary ignorance of Warren's type, for which the bisinuata. 
given locality “Japan” was certainly erroneous, I re-described this species as vinacearia sinensis; see Vol. 4, 
p. 43 and, for a full correction of the synonymy, Novit. Zool. Vol. 24, p. 306. The type was really from W. China, 
but the distribution reaches from the Burmese frontier to Chang Yang and there is a local race ( ?) on Formosa. 
Rh. tremiscens Prout (4 b), from Nanchuen (S. Szechuan), may be expected from the more distinctly tremiscens. 
Palaearctic parts of that province. Very similar to bisinuata, the wings broader, darker, the lines much finer 
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