ELYDHA. 1 Gl 



from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line red-brown, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and oblique to 

 inner margin near tornus ; a choeolate-brown patch beyond it from 

 costa to above vein 6, with some white points on costa, its lower 

 part black with the patch constricted above it ; a faint sinuous 

 dark subterminal shade between veins 5 and 3 ; a series of black 

 points just before termen. Hind wing dark brown with a reddish 

 gloss; a fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyer with 

 blackish discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to 

 veiu 2. 



Hub. Singapore (Ridley), 10 tf , 3 5 ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wal- 

 lace), 5 J 5 1 2 , Kuching (Shelford), 1 <5 , Sandakan (Greagh), 1 $ . 

 Exjj. 26-32 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antennas of male ciliated. 



A. Palpi of male with the terminal part of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint 

 fringed with hair in front, the second joint with small tuft of hair 

 behind at extremity, the tegulte produced behind into a hood over 

 thorax, the fore coxae on outer side and femora above fringed with 

 thick tufts of scales. 



4508. Elydna tristicta. 



Caradrina tristicta, Hmpsn, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 246, pi. 17- f. 2. 

 Xanthodes amorata, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 66 (1907) 



c? . Head and thorax white tinged with reddish yellow and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi yellow at sides ; antennae 

 rufous ; fore legs with the fringes of scales bright rufous; abdomen 

 ochreous white with reddish orange dorsal segmental bands. Fore 

 wing white, the basal area suffused with rufous, the medial area 

 suffused with rufous and yellow except towards inner margin, the 

 terminal area suffused with rufous between veins 6 and 5, the 



Fig. 53. — Elydna tristicta, <$ . ±. 



basal area with some black irroration, the rest of wing irrorated 

 with rufous, the veins streaked with rufous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa and a point on median nervure, 

 the antemedial line by a diffused blackish band from costa to 

 vein 1, sometimes broken up into two spots ; medial line rufous, 

 erect and slightly sinuous ; small white spots in the angles of cell 

 and another beyond the rufous discoidal line ; veins 6 and 5 

 strongly streaked with rufous ; postmedial line rufous, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique and 



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