324 jjoiTiip.F. 



•2 19:?. Euinichtis albostigmata. 



EpuuJa alltoftiijiiuitn, Bet li. -Baker, Truiis. Knt. Soc. 1891, p. 200 ; Stami. 



Cnt. I/cp. pnl. p. 17-. 

 Hadnw oflanlicitm, Uitli.-Bnkcr, Trnns. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 207; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 17'-'. 



o'. Head mid thorax jiiirplisli red mixed -with a few Mack 

 scales; palpi blickish at sidcH ; li)Wcr part of frons black at sides 

 and with a Itlack bar above; tepula} with black medial line; patagia 

 with some black scales near ujiper edtre ; abdomen ocbreous tinned 

 with rufous and irroratcd with brown, the ba.se whitish, tlie anal 

 tuft rufous. Fore wiup jjurplish red largely sufl'used and irrorated 

 with black-brown, especially on medial and terminal areas ; sub- 

 basal lino represented h\ black striic from costa and median 

 nervure ; a diH'used sinuous black streak below base of cell; ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 : claviform 

 defined l>y black, acute at extremity and with a Idack streak from 

 it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform white defined by 

 black, the former oblicjue elliptical, open above and with slight 

 brown line in centre, the latter large with brown centre ; an in- 

 distinct medial line angled outwards below costa and on median 



Fig. 106. — Eumichtis aibostitjmata, J . ]. 



nervure, then waved ; postmedial line double at costa. bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4. some 

 white points beyoiid it on costa ; subterminal line formed of small 

 whili.sh lunules, defined on inner side by small dentate dark marks 

 and with short black streaks beyond it in the interspaces, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia fuscous with ochrcous line at base and 

 intersected witli ochreous. Hind wing fuscous brown mixed with 

 some whitish, the veins daj-ker, a slight dark discoidal lunule ; a 

 dark postmedial line angled at vein -I and fine dark terminal line ; 

 cilia ochreous with a fuscous line through them ; the nnderside 

 whitish irroratcd with brown, a large black discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous po.stmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ailautica. ilueh brighter and more uniform ])urpli.sh red; 

 fore wing with the terminal area only .""Uffused with black-brown, 

 the orbicular round witliout any white, the reniform witli a little 

 white in centre and wliit<' line i>ii outer edge; the medial line 

 distinct ; the subterminal line pur])lish red and more continuous. 



Hub. Maokiiu, fy])et and \\\ti2 f atlanticum in Coll. Bethuue- 

 Hakcr. Krp. oU millim. 



