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RHYACIA. By W. Warren. 
spilosaia. 
ienuis. 
sikkima. 
postfusca. 
clavata. 
tibiata. 
hypochalcis. 
subsegua. 
consequa. 
R. spilosata Warr. (7 b). Forewing uniform dull grey brown with all the markings obscure; orbicular 
and reniform stigmata filled up with darker, without distinct annuli or outlines; inner and outer lines conversely 
dentate lunulate, the teeth of the former pointing basewards; those of the outer, as usual, double; subterminal 
line marked by a double row of brown spots, the inner between, the outer on, the veins; a row of terminal black 
dots; the terminal area narrowly darker; hindwing slightly paler than forewing; fringe concolorous; underside 
of forewing dark, of hindwing paler, the latter with cellspot and outer line; head, thorax, and abdomen all 
concolorous. Phallaloong, on the Nepaul frontier, N. India. 
R. tenuis Btlr. (Vol. 3, pi. 12 b). Forewing purplish red; the costal edge redbrown; a rufous spot 
below base of cell; inner and outer lines double, indistinct; the inner visible only below middle between median 
vein and vein 1, followed by a rufous patch below cell; the outer waved, excurved above and incurved below 
vein 4; subterminal dark and indistinct; orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by rufous in and beyond 
the cell; hindwing pale brown darker along termen. The type from the Punjab, N. India; also occurs over the 
border in Kashmir. 
R. sikkima Moore (7 c). Forewing grey brown irrorated with black and with a few large yellowish 
white scales; subbasal and inner lines double, black, filled in with grey; the former with a black patch beyond 
its end on submedian fold; the latter angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; outer line also 
double, filled in with grey, lunulate-dentate, inbent beyond cell, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line greyish, 
wavy, preceded by a black costal patch and some dentate marks at middle; a greyish apical patch; claviform 
stigma containing some yellowish white scales; orbicular and reniform also containing yellowish white scales 
and edged with black; the cell black between them; hindwing fuscous grey, the fringe grey with a brown line. 
The type from Sikkim; also from Bhutan, N. India, and Yatong, Tibet (cf. Vol. 3, p. 40; in that Vol. we gave 
figure of the <$, here we give a female). 
R. postfusca Hmps. (7 c). Forewing whitish, suffused in parts with fuscous, towards costa and inner 
margin tinged with olive yellow; inner and outer lines double; the inner oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1, 
on costa followed by a blackish spot; outer line dentate-lunulate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal 
indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; small black terminal lunules; claviform stigma 
marked only at its extremity by some black scales; orbicular and reniform large, whitish; the former rounded 
and oblique; the cell black; an indistinct median shade; fringe yellowish; hindwing deep fuscous; fringe fuscous 
and yellow. Haclamidla, Ceylon. 
R. clavata Hmps. Forewing grey tinged with redbrown; the median area redbrown, except at costal 
and inner margins; a strongly marked sinuous black streak below base of cell with a yellowish streak above 
it to claviform stigma: inner line oblique and sinuous, intersected by the claviform which is ringed with yellow 
and black; orbicular and reniform stigmata with brown centres and black outlines; the former oblique, open 
above, the latter a narrow lunule, strongly angled inwards along median vein to below the orbicular; the cell 
blackish before and between them; outer line bent outwards below costa, then dentate lunulate, incurved 
below vein 4; subterminal indistinct, greyish; the veins beyond it streaked with dark; terminal lunules brown; 
hindwing brownish grey, with dark terminal line. Described from a single rj from Kulu, Punjab. 
Sect. V. Antennae of $ ciliated. 
In the following two species from Australia the underside of the wings in the <$ is clothed with silky 
anclroconia. 
R. tibiata Guen. (= subnigra Walk.). Forewing pale grey, irrorated with black; the terminal area 
suffused with blackish; inner and outer lines not very distinct; the inner oblique and waved; the outer strongly 
dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal equally indistinct, preceded by a slight dark cloud; 
a terminal row of black points; orbicular stigma a black dot; reniform rufous defined by black; hindwing blackish 
fuscous; the androconia black; in the $ the reniform stigma bears a white spot, and the hindwing is pale fuscous. 
Australia: Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. 
R. hypochalcis Trnr. (7 c). Forewing pale redbrown with dark dusting; the innermarginal and terminal 
areas suffused with dark; lines double, dark, filled in with pale; the inner oblique and waved; the outer strongly 
lunulate dentate; subterminal line pale, preceded by dark suffusion; orbicular stigma a black dot; the reniform 
black edged with white, with rufous centre, narrow but expanding below; hindwing brown; the androconia 
golden olive; the $ is more purple brown, the reniform stigma more rufous. Australia: Queensland and N. S. Wales. 
R. subsequa Schiff. (7 c; this is an Indian $ from Simla; in Vol. 3, pi. 9 c we gave a figure of apalaearctic^). 
Forewing rufous grey; orbicular and reniform stigmata with pale outlines, the former oblique, the latter always 
darker; lines obscure; a small black brown blotch on costa before submarginal line; hindwing yellow, with 
large blackish lunular cell mark and submarginal band; fringe yellow; — in the ab. consequa Hbn. (= sarmata 
Rmbr.) (Vol. 3, pi. 9 c) the forewing is longer, greyish fuscous, with the markings all blacker and much plainer; 
lines pale grey; the outer conspicuously paler at costa; stigmata dark brown; this is a southern European form 
reaching to Afghanistan, and very probably specifically distinct. The type form is recorded from the Punjab, 
N. W. India. Larva ochreous fuscous, the lines yellower, dorsal and spiracular broad with black edges; a sub¬ 
dorsal row of oblique blackish bars; on various low plants. 
