Moths . twards andminutely dentate between veins 5 and 2; a marginal series of darkspecks. Hind wing fuscous. 2 with the vertex of head pink ; the thorax purplish; the hindwing semihyaline and almost white. Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon; Borneo. Exp. 22 millim. Genus RHODOPILEA. Rhodophsea, Guen. Eur. Microlep. Ind. Meth. p. 74 (1845).Eurhodope, Hiibn. Verz. p. 371 (? 1818), non , Zell. Isis, 1848, p. , Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 122 (1863).Succadaua, Rag. Nouv. Gen. Phyc. p. 13 (1888).Mineola, Hidst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. , Bag. Mon. Phyc. p. 149 (1894). Type, B.
Moths . twards andminutely dentate between veins 5 and 2; a marginal series of darkspecks. Hind wing fuscous. 2 with the vertex of head pink ; the thorax purplish; the hindwing semihyaline and almost white. Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon; Borneo. Exp. 22 millim. Genus RHODOPILEA. Rhodophsea, Guen. Eur. Microlep. Ind. Meth. p. 74 (1845).Eurhodope, Hiibn. Verz. p. 371 (? 1818), non , Zell. Isis, 1848, p. , Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 122 (1863).Succadaua, Rag. Nouv. Gen. Phyc. p. 13 (1888).Mineola, Hidst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. , Bag. Mon. Phyc. p. 149 (1894). Type, B. advenella, Zinck., from Europe. Bange. Universally distributed. Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching vertex of head,,the 3rd acuminate; maxillary palpi filiform. Pore wing sub-triangular ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 10free. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3 fromangle ; 4, 5 stalked 56,7 from upper angle or shortly stalked,7 anastomosing with 8. ^^3>. 99 Sect. I. Antennae of male with the basal joint conically dilatedwith scales, the basal part of shaft with a sinus and a ridge ofscales. 4410. Rhodophaea heringi, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 282;id. M011. Phyc. p. 73, pi. viii, fig. 1; C. § S. no. 4562. Brown suffused with white ; palpi at sides, the dilated joints of antenna? of male, and anal tuft blackish. Fore wing with the costal area whiter, the inner and outer areas less suffused; a tuft of raised scales on base of median nervure ; a medial line oblique from costa to cell, where it joins a brown-edged and brown- _,. eo r>7 7 t , . „ , centred grey conical patch ex-Fig. 5b.—Rhodophma herinqi, ,-?. i. , ,. ? .* . .., tending to inner margin with a ridge of raised scales on its inner edge ; two dark discocellular specks ; a dark submarginal line slightly bent outwards at vein 5, then minutely dentate, a dark mark beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; an obscure marginal series of dark specks. Hind win
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