BEITHT8. 



449 



tlie area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwarda 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 



Fig. I'lo.—Brithys crini, S- t- (From Moths lud. vol. ii.) 



lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous 

 and in female the terminal area also. 



Hah. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Templeion), 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 Trincomalee {Yerhury), 1 c? ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 5 ; 

 Singapore {Ridley), 1 $ ; Java {Uorsfielcl), 5 c? , 3 $ . Exp. 

 32-46 millim. 



Larva. Head, first and last somite, and legs yellow ; the rest 

 brown, with dorsal and subdorsal series of yellowish-white spots, 

 those on posterior edge of somites rather smaller ; somite 4 without 

 anterior spots and 5 with the dorsal spot only ; subdorsal white points 

 on somites 4 to 8 ; lateral and ventral bands each on part of two 

 somites ; wart vi. on somites 4-8 on white spots. Food-plants, 

 Liiiacece. 



1792. Erithys encausta. 



Noctua encausta, Hiibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 392 (1827); Dup. 

 L6p. Fr. vi. p. 78, pi. 86. f. 3 ; Hen-.-SchaflF. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 291 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



Head and thorax flesh-white ; tegulse with black medial line ; 

 prothorax with black patch ; abdomen white, flesh-coloured below. 

 Fore wing white tinged with flesh-colour, leaving the costal area 

 from before middle whiter; antemedial line indistinct, waved, often 

 nearly obsolete, oblique from costa to below cell ; claviform some- 

 times slightly defined by black ; orbicular represented by a black 

 streak, or obsolete ; reniform narrow, defined by black ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; subterrainal line 

 fuscous, obsolete towards costa, the area before it yellowish except 

 towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white ; 

 female with the costal area tinged with fuscous, a dark terminal 

 line except towards toruus ; the underside sometimes with sinuous 

 postmedial line on costal half of wing. 



Hah. Italy, La Spezia ; Sicily, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Ionian Is. ; Greece, 1 $ . Exp. 38—44 millim. 



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