CALLCECIA. — ERYTHRiEClA. 



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a diffused blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then waved ; postmedial lino indistinct, double, dentate, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 snbteruiinal line with brownish patch at costa, then indistinct 

 and minutely waved. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad fuscous 

 terminal band ; cilia yellow mixed with brown ; the underside 

 yellow slightly irrorated with black, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged with red, a slight discoidal lunule, diffused curved medial 

 line, minutely waved postmedial line and indistinct diifused sub- 

 terminal band. 



Hah. Bombay, Asirgarh (SwinJwe), 1 2 type. Poena (^Sivinhoe), 

 1 c? , 3 $ . Kvp. 26-30 millim. 



Genus ERYTHRCECIA, nov. 



Type, E. si/avis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; 

 frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennje of male laminate, almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair 

 only and without distinct crests ; tibiie fringed with long l)air ; abdomen with 

 doi sal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing without pink beyond the postmedial band; hind 



wing with the apical area suffused with brown suavis. _ 



B. Fore wing with the whole postmedial area pink ; hind 



wing almost wholly suffused with brown rhodo2)hora. 



*4360. Erythrcecia suavis. 



Heliothis suavis, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 45 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 271. 



cJ . Head, front half of thorax, a patch on metathorax, and tibioo 

 bright pink, the rest of thorax lemon-yellow ; hair on pectus white ; 



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Fig. 18. — Erythracia suavis, (^ . \. 



tarsi brownish. Fore wing bright lemon-yellow ; the costal area 

 bright pink ; a waved pink antemedial band; orbicular and reniform 



