( 466 ) 



pointed, drooping ; tongiio well develoiied ; hind tibiae of S with four spurs. Neura- 

 tion : forewings, eell two-thirds of wing ; first median at five-sixths, second close 

 before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; last four subcostals on a coinnion 

 stem; first free. Hindwings : cell two-tiiirds of wing ; discocellular incurved; costal 

 appro.ximated to subcostal for quite two-thiids ; two subco.stals and last two medians 

 from ends of cell. 



Type : Erilophodes colorata sp. nov. 



Erilophodes colorata sp. nov. 



Forewings white, dusted with black atoms, and suffused in parts with rosy 

 brown and black ; a subcostal curved black streak, distinct on inner margin and not 

 reaching costa, but running basewards along inner margin, and black on costa at 

 extreme base ; second line at one-third, black, sinuous outwards, reaching inner 

 margin beyond middle, in a small sinus, containing a red brown blotch ; exterior 

 line at two-thirds, black, denticulate, mnning outwards to the radial, then inwards to 

 near the inner margin, where it again is bent outwards ; costa tinged with reddish 

 brown ; interval between subbasal and second lines whitish, unsuff'used, except on 

 costa and inner margin : central region between second and exterior line suffused 

 with dull reddish brown, and in lower half with blacki.sh, and with a distinct black 

 cell spot ; exterior line followed on costa by a deep black blotch, and on inner margin 

 by a rosy one ; marginal area whitish, towards tlie hindmargin itself strongly suffused 

 with rosy brown ; fringe chequered white and black. Hindwings pure white, dusted 

 with black atoms in the outer half; more so in ? than S ; an interrupted lilackish 

 curved submarginal line in ?, crossing the dull black cell spot; in the 6 only the 

 cell spot is represented ; a blackish blotch on hindmargin above anal angle. Collar, 

 vertex, and face white; antennae brown; thorax black; abdomen white with the 

 tufts black. Under.side white \vith the costa .'^potted with black, and the markings 

 showing only on the costal half; underside of abdomen and pectus white; legs 

 whitish, spotted with grey. 



<? ?. Expanse of wings: 32 to 34 mm. 



The rosy suffusion is more pronounced in the ? than the (?. 



Anatossa nom. nov. 

 This name is proposed for Declana niveata Butler = Atossa niveaUi Meyr. ; 

 the name Atossa being already doubly preoccupied 



