EROCHA. 





and minutely sinuous ■ souk: white on termer in submedian .-. 



Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas broadly 

 black-brown, the terminal band running inwards to a point on 

 inner margin before middle, the outer edge of white area str 

 curved. Underside of tore wing black-brown with large white 

 postmedial patch from below costa to just below vein 2, its outer 

 edge curved. 



Hub. Peeu, Chanchamayo {Thamm), 1 £type. Exp. ~A millim. 



i -73. Erocha mummia. 



Bombyx mummia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 61, pL 228. f. C 1779) ; Kirby, 



Lep. Het. p. 186. 

 Viop . , VVlk. ii. '-'A'.) 1- 



cJ . Head and thorax dark reddish brown with some white hairs ; 

 basal joint of antennae white; back of head with white spots above 

 the eyes; coxa? white; abdomen black-brown, some metallic i 

 in the basal crest, a lateral orange patch on segments 2 to 4. 

 wing dark reddish brown with an olive tinge and some bluish 

 white irroration especially on costal area, the median nervure and 

 bases of veins 7, 6, 4, 3 slightly streaked with white ; subbasal line 

 represented by a very indistinct dark strigafrom costa; antemedial 

 line indistinct, oblique, slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 orbicular represented by a very obscure dark mark; reniform a 

 dark lunule defined by white, indistinctly on lower half of inner 



Fig. 193. — Erocha mummia, <£. \. 



side ; postmedial line represented by a small white spot on costa 

 and indistinct double dark line from submedian fold to inner 

 margin ; a rather diffused dark brown line arising from costa 

 beyond the postmedial line, strongly excurved from below costa to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to the postmedial line; an indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line defined on outer side by slight dark brown 

 marks, bent outwards below costa, then curved and irregularly 

 waved. Hind wing black-brown with semihyaline white patch in, 

 below, and beyond cell, the median nervure and veins 4, '6, 2 on it 

 black ; cilia white at tips towards apex and tornus. Underside of 

 for<- wing with oblique elliptical postmedial white i.atch between 

 veins 7 and 2. 



Hab. Yenkzuixa, 1 c?; Fe. Guiana, Cayenne (Schetus), 1 1 : 

 Surinam; Brazil, Amazon, tga (Bates), 1 J type discrete. £>•■/;. 

 40-44 millim. 



