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oblique, the latter with the centre fuscous; the cell between them more or less black; hindwing fuscous brown; 
the fringe white. Found at Thundiani in the Punjab; and Kashmir. A large and distinct species. 
R. saucia Hbn. (= aequa Hbn.) (Vol. 3, pi. 11 h). Forewing grey brown, varied with fuscous, generally saucia. 
with a strong reddish tinge; the stigmata outlined with brown; the lower half of reniform fuscous; hindwing 
semihyaline white; the veins dark; the marginal area brown; — the form margaritosa Haw. includes the more r ^ jari ' 
strongly marked and varied specimens, and wholly grey in colour; — majuscula Haw. is fuscous black; ab. ma j uscu i u , 
nigrocosta Tutt (Vol. 3, pi. lli) is greyish fuscous, sometimes tinged with reddish or ochreous, with a broad nigrocosta. 
black shade along costal area which sometimes encloses the stigmata; ab. ochrea-costa Tutt (Vol. 3, pi. 11 h), ocftrea- 
on the contrary, has the inner marginal area darker, while the whole costal area is pale; abb. rufa and brunnea 
Tutt are mere colour varieties. Larva reddish brown; dorsal line pale yellow, dark-edged; spiracular line pale, 
black-edged above; a transverse black mark across segment 12; anal plate pale; head black-spotted; on numerous 
low plants. 
R. ? costalis Walk. Forewing reddish brown; the costal streak pale grey, not reaching apex; a longitu- costalis. 
dinal black streak in disc, widening outwards to the dark terminal band, interrupted by a pale grey oblique 
lanceolate streak; terminal band with the inner edge waved, its upper half accompanied by a black streak; hind¬ 
wing brownish grey; whitish beneath with brown apex. Australia. Described from a single the type of which 
is in the Melbourne Museum. 
3. Genus: Mermonassa Walk. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment with pointed tuft of hair 
at extremity, the third long and smooth; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax slightly crested; abdomen flattened; 
forewing elongate, narrow, the costal and inner margins subparallel; apex blunt; termen vertical, oblique only 
below. Type H. consignata Walk. An Indian genus, occurring also in China and Japan. 
H. sinuata Moore (8 b). Forewing blood red, the veins streaked with pale rufous; subbasal line grey sinuata. 
edged with deep red oblique to submedian fold; inner and outer lines double; the inner red, filled in with pale, 
angled outwards on subcostal vein, then incurved to vein 1 below which it is again angled outwards; outer 
line dark with pale centre, denticulate, inangled beyond cell and incurved below vein 4; subterminal preceded 
by dark suffusion and defined by the pale terminal area, wavy, excurved at middle; stigmata deep red, the 
pale annuli defined by red; claviform pointed at each end, bisected by the inner line; orbicular elongate, oval; 
reniform hindwing fuscous brown; in the ab. cuprina Moore (8 b) really the commoner form, the forewing, cuprina. 
like the head and thorax, is much darker red and the hindwing brown. Sikkim, N. India. 
H. spilota Moore (8 b). Forewing pale purplish red; the costal area to beyond middle and the cell ochreous; spilota. 
veins, streaked with ochreous; inner and outer lines double; the inner angled outwards on subcostal vein, then 
incurved, and becoming obsolete below the claviform; outer line excurved above, and incurved below vein 4; 
subterminal line preceded by fuscous suffusion; the stigmata deep black edged with ochreous; claviform elongate, 
elliptical, pointed basewards with some black scales below it; orbicular elongate, also with the ends pointed; 
reniform a lunule with pointed ends; hindwing whitish, pale brown towards termen; a dark terminal line. 
Bengal. 
H. incisa Moore (8 b). Forewing olive yellow, with some rufous irroration; the costal edge rufous ; inner incisa. 
and outer lines double; the inner brownish, with black subcostal points on each side, angled outwards on subcostal, 
then incurved to vein 1 and strongly angled outwards above inner margin; outer line irregularly denticulate, 
inangled beyond cell, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line pale, preceded by dark suffusion and excurved 
at middle; stigmata black; the claviform diamond-shaped, edged by fine double black lines, bisected by the inner 
line; orbicular triangular, black, like the reniform, their annuli edged with black; hindwing whitish, tinged 
with ochreous, especially terminally. Sikkim, N. India. 
H. finitima Warr. (= incisa Htny^s., subsp. 1). Forewing dark brown with the base and costal area finitima. 
to beyond middle olive green; stigmata edged with pale and then with black; hindwing fuscous. Thundiani, 
Dalhousie, and Dharmsala in the Punjab; also found in Kashmir and Tibet. 
H. lanceola Moore (8 b). Forewing bright olive green; inner and outer lines double; the inner waved, lanceola. 
angled outwards on subcostal vein and more strongly above inner margin, and joined by a black dash on sub¬ 
median fold to the subbasal line; the outer denticulate, bent inwards beyond cell and incurved below 4; sub¬ 
terminal pale, preceded by fuscous brown suffusion; stigmata deep black, their pale annuli edged again with 
black; the claviform elongate, the orbicular triangular; median shade angled in middle and denticulate; hind¬ 
wing pale fuscous, paler towards base. Sikkim, N. India. 
H. consignata Walk. 8 c; $ cf. Vol. 3, pi. 13 li). Forewing redbrown, slightly tinged with olive and consignata. 
varied with blue grey scales; inner and outer lines pale, edged on both sides with black scales; the inner, as 
