cfflorescens. 
erubescens. 
stigmatias. 
pallidi- 
stigma. 
punctipes. 
cinctipen- 
nis. 
albistigma. 
selenias. 
chersotoid.es. 
conistis. 
albiorb is. 
rufata. 
rubicilia. 
5S RHYACIA. By W. Warren. 
in size; the $ very much like that of compta Walk, from Australia. It occurs in Sikkim and Assam, also in N. W. 
India, and W. Java. 
R. efflorescens $ Hmps. (= erubescens A Hmps.) (7 g). Forewing dull grey, slightly reddish-tinged 
in the^, with all the markings indistinct; the black spot at end of claviform stigma varies in size and distinctness, 
as in nigrosigna ab. obscurior: the reniform is sometimes filled up with dark grey in the upper half or with whitish; 
hindwing dull whitish tinged with grey, darkest along termen. Occurs in the Nilgiri Hills, S. India; the forewing 
is longer and narrower, and the grey is not mixed with brown. 
R. erubescens Btlr. Forewing rufous brown with the ill-defined markings of the last species; smaller 
and less narrow-winged. Known only from the single type <$, which like the last species was from the Nilgiris. 
R. stigmatias Wan. (7 h). Forewing (<$) pale lilac grey or luteous grey dusted with darker and more or 
less strongly tinged with pink; of the $ wholly dull brick red; costal edge red; the lines dark, marked by dark 
spots on costa, disposed as in the allied species, but rarely clear; the outer line outcurved and emitting rather 
long dark teeth on the veins; stigmata of the pale ground colour edged with brown; the lower half of reniform 
always black in the J, unicolorous in §; subterminal line sometimes indicated by a dark shade on each side; 
fringe reddish with a dark marginal festoon in the pale grey examples, without it in the red forms of the A, 
and in the $$; hindwing pale luteous grey; the colouring of the thorax varies with that of the forewing; in 
the ab. pallidistigma Warr. (7 h) all three stigmata are pale ochreous, with the lower half of reniform velvety 
black. New Guinea. 
R. ? punctipes Walk. Forewing greyish white with a luteous tinge, finely speckled with black; a straight 
brown line extending from base to beyond middle of wing, where there is a small brown mark; the lines brownish, 
slender, undulating, more or less obsolete; terminal points black; on exterior part of the cliscal black streak 
are two blackish dots, the interior the larger and partly reddish; orbicular and reniform obsolete; hindwing 
whitish, semihyaline, browner along termen; fringe whitish. Described from a pair from Ceylon, as an Agrotis, 
but unidentified, the types being lost; the description rather suggests a Nonagria. 
R. cinctipennis Btlr. (7 h). Forewing purplish red with numerous black striations and irrorations; sub- 
basal and inner lines waved, double; outer line dentate, indistinct, excurved above vein 4; subterminal line 
preceded by dark shades, the terminal area beyond it rufous ochreous; terminal points dark; claviform small, 
black-edged; orbicular and reniform purplish fuscous outlined with black, the former oblique, elliptical; hind¬ 
wing fuscous, the fringe ochreous. Hawaii; only $$ known; one of these, ab. albistigma ah. nov. has the stigmata 
white, the reniform with rufous centre. 
R. selenias Meyr. (7 h). Forewing purplish red irrorated with black; subbasal and inner lines double, 
black; the inner oblique and waved, outwardly angled below costa; outer line lunulate-dentate, oblique below 
vein* 4, indented beyond cell; subterminal pale, preceded by obscure dentate blackish marks; black terminal 
points; claviform with black outline; orbicular and reniform edged with black; the orbicular round; the reni¬ 
form with a yellowish white lunule on its outer edge; hindwing brownish with an ochreous tinge; fringe whit¬ 
ish, with a brown basal line. Hawaii. 
R. chersotoides Btlr. (7 h). Forewing purplish red irrorated with black; the basal area and costa to 
beyond middle varied with whitish; subbasal and inner lines black, double, waved; outer line denticulate, 
marked by double black striae at costa, excurved above to vein 4, thence incurved; subterminal line formed 
by a row of ochreous spots, preceded by small and obscure dentate blackish marks; the terminal field beyond 
darker, except at apex, which remains pale; a terminal row of small black lunules; claviform stigma small, ed¬ 
ged with black; orbicular and reniform brown at centre, ringed with whitish and edged with black; the former 
small, oblique, elliptical; the latter with fuscous in lower lobe; the cell between them black; hindwing brown; 
the fringe ochreous. Hawaii. Smaller than the two preceding. 
R. conistis Hmps. (= chersotoides Meyr. nec Btlr.) (7 h). Forewing pale grey brown, with fuscous 
irroration; the costal half of wing to end of cell suffused with dark; lines as in chersotoides ; orbicular and reniform 
stigmata black, slightly ringed with grey and edged with black; hindwing pale brownish, the veins and terminal 
area darker; head and thorax blackish; in ab. albiorbis (= ab. 1 Hmps.) both the head and thorax are browner; 
the costal area is without dark suffusion, and the orbicular stigma is whitish; in another form, ab. rufata (= ab. 
2 Hmps.) the head and thorax are reddish brown like the forewing which is tinged with fuscous in costal area. 
Hawaii. 
R. rubicilia Moore (7 i <$ cf. Vol. 3, pi. 10 f). Forewing yellow brown with an olive tinge or yellow 
rufous, sprinkled with blue grey scales towards base and more widely in terminal area; lines slightly darker, 
but obscure, double; the teeth of outer line marked on veins with dark and light alternations; the veins towards 
termen marked with blue grey; submarginal line preceded by a deeper fulvous shade, especially on costa; clavi¬ 
form stigma marked by a black dot at its extremity; orbicular round and reniform indented externally, inter¬ 
ruptedly dark-edged, and often with blue grey scales inside; a black dot at base of cell; these markings are 
