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LUXIARIA EXCLUSA (Plate 202, Fir,. 5, ? ; Plate 215, Fig. 4,^). 

 ILmcrophila exdusa, Walker, Catal. Leji. Ilet. B. M. xxi. p. 320 (1861), (J. 

 Bithia exclusa, Walker, id. xxxv. p. 1599. 



Hemei-ophila priTterevns, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. R. M. xxi. p. 320 (1861), ?. 

 Acidalia imprimnta. Walker, id. xxiii. p. 771 (1861), ?. 

 Macciria o!i.<tataria. Walker, hi. xxiii. p. 928 (1S6I). 

 Bithia liffiiaria, Walker, id. xxxv. p. 1600 (1866). 



Wliitisli-cinereous, more cinereous in tlie female. Wings more or less tliickly 



speckled with minute cinereous-black scales ; crossed by an inwardly-oblique medial 



and discal row of black points, which are more or less indistinct on the forewing, 



and on the hindwing of the male sometimes forming two denticulated lines, the 



transverse interspace on both wings in both sexes being also sometimes whitish ; 



outer border with two ill-defined and indistinct brownish lunular fascite. Forewing 



with three equidistant black oblique costal streaks, the inner one being curved. 



Front of head, palpi, and forelegs brownish-ochreous ; forelegs black speckled. 



Expanse Ixtr inch. 



Genus ERASTRIA. 



Erastria, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806). 



Bradi/epeies, Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 128 (1829) ; id. Illust. Haust. ili. p. 201 (1831) ; Catal. B. Lep. 



B. M. p. 180 (1850). 

 Timandra, Duponchel, Lep. Fr. vii. 2, pp. 105, 225 (1829) ; Lederer, Vers. Eur. Spau. p. 30 (1853) ; 



Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 1 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 797. 

 Calotlujscmis (part), Hiibner, Verz. p. 301. 



Forewing triangular, apex acute, subfalcate ; exterior margin obliquely convex ; 

 cell more than half the length ; first subcostal at nearly half before end of cell, joined 

 to second by a short spur at one-third from its base, second at one-fifth, quadrifid, 

 sixth from end of cell ; discocellular bent above the middle, radial from the angle ; 

 middle median close to end, lower at fully two-fifths: hindwing broad, exterior 

 margin acutely angular in the middle ; cell half the length, broad at its base ; two 

 subcostals from the end ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from the middle ; the 

 middle median extremely close to end of cell, lower at half. Body slender ; palpi 

 porrect, rather slender, laxly squamous beneath; antennae broadly bipectinated to 

 near tip, the branches minutely ciliated ; legs smooth, middle tibite with one pair of 

 moderately long spurs, hind tibiae with two pairs of long spurs. 



Tijpti, E. amataria, 



ERASTRIA CONVECTARIA (Plate 202, Fig. 3, 3a, i%). 

 Timandra convectaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 800 (1861), 5. 

 Tiinandra comptaria. Walker, id. xxvi. p. 1615 (1862). 



Olivaceous ochreous-green, sparsely flecked with indistinct ochreous-brown, 

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