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veins towards termen brown; subterminal line fine, preceded by a large brown blotch at costa; stigmata of 
the ground colour, edged with dark brown; median shade oblique to submedian fold, then incurved, the space 
between it and outer line suffused with olive brown, deepest round the reniform; terminal line fine, dark; hind¬ 
wing luteous, tinged with olive grey, deeper in $, with grey cellspot and outer line. Khasia Hills, Assam, and 
the Punjab, N. India, extending into Kashmir and W. China. 
R. crinigera Btlr. Forewing grey brown, irrorated or suffused with black; subbasal and inner lines crinigem. 
double, waved, the inner very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; outer line dentate, the teeth 
forming points on. the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line grey, indistinct, preceded by 
some fuscous suffusion; some terminal black points; claviform stigma slightly edged with black above; orbicular 
and reniform with blackish centres and outlines, the orbicular round; a diffused median shade between them; 
hindwing yellowish brown; fringe white at tips. Honolulu and Oahu, Hawaii. 
R. compta $ Walk. (= cpiadrata $ Walk., reciproca <$ Walk., breviuscula <$ Walk., acetina Feld.) (7 f). compta. 
Forewing ochreous grey brown in uniform dull brown in $; inner line obscure, dentate; outer line dentate, 
forming a double row of points on veins, excurved above, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line pale, preceded 
at costa by a darker patch and below by small spots; claviform stigma marked at extremity by a black dot; 
orbicular and reniform brown-edged, the former round and very obscure, the latter often with pale annulus 
in the $ and with a black patch in lower lobe; fringe rufous; hindwing dark fuscous, the fringe rufous. The mark¬ 
ings in the § are always more indistinct; — the form immunis $ Walk. (= communicata Walk.) (7 f) from immunis. 
New Zealand, is more rufous, even hr the §; the subsp. innocua $ Walk, from the New Hebrides is also a decidedly innocua. 
brighter rufous insect ; a form occurring at Maravilla, Victoria, — ab. perampla ab. nov. (7 f), is decidedly larger perampla. 
than all the others; the $ with an olive ochreous tinge, the $ much darker redbrown, with the upper half of reni¬ 
form and the submarginal line conspicuously pale ochreous; in. all the forms the hindwing is dark fuscous. Larva 
elongate, tapering in front, the last segment humped; ochreous dotted with fulvous; dorsal line interrupted, 
lateral stripe broad and pale; segments = 4 to 10 orange shaded with brown on dorsum, edged with a narrow 
black line; segments 11 and 12 with black subclorsal stripes, 12 also with a lateral stripe; head small, with 
H-shaped yellow mark in front; venter and legs luteous; feeding on Urtica; pupa pale red in a slighly spun 
cocoon. New South Wales and Victoria, Australia; Tasmania; New Zealand; New Hebrides. 
R. neurogramma Meyr. (7 g). Forewing rufous, thickly dusted and partly suffused with black; veins neurc - 
streaked with ochreous; subbasal and inner lines black, double; the former filled in with grey, followed by an 9 ramma - 
oblique striga across cell; inner filled in with rufous, outwardly angled at each extremity; outer line double, 
denticulate, excurved above, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line ochreous, the terminal area beyond it 
blackish; claviform strong, edged with black; orbicular and reniform blackish, with ochreous annuli edged 
with black; the orbicular oblique and elliptical; fringe ochreous and fuscous; hinclwing yellowish, the veins 
and termen fuscous. Kilauea, Hawaii. 
R. nivisparsa Btlr. (7 g J; $ cf. Vol. 3 pi. 10 e). Forewing pale or dark grey with blackish irroration; nivisparsa 
lines double, blackish; the inner oblique, the outer lunulate-dentate; subterminal pale, preceded by black wedge- 
shaped marks, strongest beyond cell; distinct black terminal lunules; claviform stigma blackish; orbicular 
and reniform pale grey, the former round, the latter large; the cell blackish; fringe chequered dark and light 
grey; hindwing greyish fuscous; fringe paler, with a pale line at base and grey one beyond it. Recorded from 
several localities in the Punjab, Murree, Abbottabad, Dharmsala; extending into Kashmir. 
R. dahlii Hbn. (= descripta Auct. nec Brem., erythrocephala Haw., candelisequa Stph., rufa Tutt) dahlii. 
(Vol 3, pi. 10 e). Forewing reddish brown with an ochreous tint in the $, darker, more purplish brown in the $; 
the lines plain in the paler ! stigmata of the ground colour, the reniform with the lower lobe dark, the upper 
sometimes ochreous; claviform with a black dot at extremity; a distinct dark median shade; hindwing dull 
fuscous, the fringe pinkish. This palaearctic species occurs also in N. W. India, but only in the larger Japanese 
form canescens $ Btlr. (= subdolens <$ Btlr.) (7 g). canescens. 
R. nigrosigna Moore (7 g). Forewing of <$ pinkish brown, generally darker along inner and outer margins, nigrosigna 
the cell and costal area paler, more yellowish; the $ is paler, pinkish grey, with the cell and costa fulvous; costal 
edge reddish; markings as in dahlii, but the extremity of the claviform stigma is always indicated by a large 
triangular black spot; upper half of reniform dull yellow, more seldom whitish ochreous; hindwing pale grey 
in $, darker grey in $. Found in N. India, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills; also in Burma. Sikkim examples 
are darker than the others; a form of this, ab. obscurior ab. nov. ( ? sp. dist.) (7 g) is dull redbrown or fuscous obscurior. 
brown in both sexes, with the reniform stigma ochreous above, and the black spot at end of claviform variable 
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