ELYDNA. 165 



medial scries of points on the veins and terminal series from apex 

 to vein 2. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith), 1 <$ ; Madras, Belgaum (Watson), 2 8, 

 Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 <j> type euthusa ; Ceylon, 1 S , 3 $ type 

 thoracica ; Yunnan, Teng Yeuk (Hobson), 1 5 > Singapore (Ridley), 

 2 5 ; N. Borneo, M. Harapok, 1 $; Celebes; Br. N. Guinea, 

 Ekeikei, Mt. Kebea, Aroa R., types t unipunctata and insv/nifica in 

 Coll. Bethune-Baker ; Queensland, Brisbane ( Turner), 1 J , 1 $ ; 

 Fiji, 1 $ type ceres ; Sandwich Is., Oahu (Perkins), 2 <S , 1 ? • 

 JE^>. 30-36 millim. 



6. Vertex of head of male normal. 



o 1 . (F/occi/era.) Abdomen of male with large sublateral tufts of flocculent 

 hair from base. 



4513. Elydna erigida. 



Aletia erigida, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221 ; Hmpsn. Moths Iud. 



ii. p. 281. 

 Caradrina crenulata, Beth.-Eaker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1900). 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with grey-brown, the frons 

 whiter; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips; antenna} 

 blackish except basal joint ; pectus and legs whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft whitish, the ventral 

 surface whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous 



Fig. 56.— Elydna erigida, $ . \. 



thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line slight, blackish, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending in a black point below median 

 nervure; antemedial line very indistinct, waved, bent inwards to 

 costa : orbicular represented by a black point, the reniform by 

 a small white spot with a point above it at upper angle of cell and 

 two at lower angle ; a diffused medial dark shade, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins ; a subterminal series of 

 blackish points slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight black points ; cilia with a tine yellowish 

 line at base. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with brown, 

 the veins browner ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia j'ellowish 

 white with a fine brown line through them ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, post- 



