EROSIID^. -101 



DIRADES FERRUGATA. 



Dirades fcrrugata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxv. p. 16,Jl (18G6). 



Cinereous-brown, suffused with ferruginous. Wings with an anteraedial and 

 postmedial transverse undulating darker hue: forewing with a pale costal stripe 

 from near the base : hindwing whitish, and speckled along the abdominal border. 

 Head in front dark brown ; abdomen whitish towards the apex ; forelegs cinereous- 

 brown ; middle and hind legs whitish. 



Expanse It inch. 



DIRADES aUADRICAUDATA (Plate 186, Fig. 1, ?, la larva.) 



Erosia quadricandata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xxiii. p. 847 (1861), j. 

 Erosia varisaria. Walker, id. p. 848, $ . 



Reddish cinereous : forewing with a few indistinct transversely-disposed black 

 antemedial points, an outwardly oblique short black postmedial costal streak, and 

 a short angular streak on posterior margin; two or three indistinct black dots also 

 below end of the upper streak ; exterior margin with a ferruginous-brown narrow 

 fascia, which is inwardly-bordered anteriorly by a slender black sinuous line : hind- 

 wing with a transverse angulated ferruginous-brown bordered cinereous discal line, 

 the inner border of which has black points ; marginal border ferruginous, inwardly- 

 bordered by a cinereous-edged blackish line ; some black speckles at the base, and 

 on abdominal margin. Cilia ferruginous; front of head, and palpi, blackish. 



Expanse 1 -to inch. 



Larva with 16 legs ; cyhndrical; anal segment truncate; colour dark purple, 

 with a few very fine short clavate hairs ; spiracles white. Pupa short, thick, head 

 truncate ; formed within a slight web. 



"Feeds on Cinchona" (Thwaites). 



DIRADES PALACA (Plate 186, Fig. 2). 

 Erosia Palaca, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 849 (1861), ?. 



Very pale purplish-cinereous, numerously flecked with blackish strigte : fore- 

 wing with a very indistinct transverse blackish-speckled ferruginous curved ante- 

 medial line, a prominent discal blackish-bordered whitish angulated line, the 

 borders of which are also slightly suffused with ferruginous ; and an angulated sub- 

 marginal series of black points, which are ferruginous-bordered below the apex : 

 hindwing with a subbasal blackish line, a similar discal angulated line with a 

 blackish patch on its upper anal end, the anterior end ferruginous-bordered; a 

 ferruginous streak at end of the cell and along the median to its base ; a medial 



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