ET7BLEMMA. L53 



5214. Eublernrna scitula. 



Erattria scitula, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 20, pi. ii. f. 10 ; Dap. 1 ■ ]>. 



Er., Suppl. iii. p. 567, pi. 47. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



f. 251; Mill. Rev. d'Ent. 1884, pi. 1. ff. 1-4; Roths. Nov. Zool. xii. 



p. 25, pi. iv. f. 29; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 230. 

 Kola exasperata, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 183, pi. 5. f. 11. 

 AgrophUa gihbosa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xv. p. 50, pi. 4. ff. 9, 10 ( I B72 . 

 A, stria futilis, Swiuli. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 517, pi. 47. £ 8 ; Hampsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 340. 

 Eulocastra cretacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 96, pi. 162. f. 17 (1893) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 341. 



Head and teguloe reddish brown mixed with some white, the 

 latter with white medial hand, the tarsi brown ringed witli white ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous except at base and 

 extremity. Fore wing pure white ; the basal area with a few 

 brownish striae ; a slight brownish subbasal point below costa ; a 

 slight dark antemedial line excurved below costa and cell ; medial 

 area with dark striae especially on outer half : an indistinct sinuous 

 medial line ; the reniform small, defined by black, its outer edge 

 irregular; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by white, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved and waved ; 

 postmedial area suffused with grey, interrupted below vein 7 and 

 with some white points on costa, subterminal line white, diffused, 

 angled outwards below vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, excurved 

 to termen at middle, then incurved and slightly waved, a curv< d 

 black mark on its outer edge below apex and some black points 

 bet ween vein 3 and tornus ; a fine dark terminal line becoming rufous 

 and somewhat punctiform towards apex; cilia white mixed with 

 brown especially on apical half and with slight dark line tow ards 

 tips. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown; 

 au indistinct irregular white subterminal line : a line dark terminal 

 line; cilia white ; the underside white with black points on termen 

 below veins 7 and 6. 



Ab. 1. futilis. Fore wing brownish grey. 



Hab. S. Fbance, Leech Coll. ; Sr.\iN, Catalonia ; C'orsic \ : 

 Italy [Leach), Capri (C. 8. Broume) ; Sicily; Dalmaxia ; 

 Ai.or.Ki.v ; Gold Coast, Accra (Sir G. Carter), 2 d , 1 2 ; Be. *-'• 

 An:n a, Likoma(f/e Jersey) 1 $ , L. Nyaaa (de Jersey), 1 2 '■> Tj 

 \\\l, Pretoria (Janse), 2 tf , Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 $ ; !■ 

 laud, Masite (Crawshay), 1 $ ; Cape Colont, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 

 1$, Capetown (Lounsbury), 1 $ ; !Sixn, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 $, 

 type futilis ; Madbas, Gooty (Campbell), 1 2 > Bangalore t Watt 

 1 ? , Coimbatore, (Walhouse), 1 $ ; Cetloh, Pundaloya <^Y t e><, 

 Maeheood), 2 $, type cretacea. Exp. L6-20 millim. 

 Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 288 ; Bffm. Baup. p. 143. 

 Hump-backed; green or pinkish ; the three anterior j 

 prohgs absent. Feeds on the eggs of ' on Fig-tr< 



Oleanders and Yuccas, covering itself with their Bcales ; at the 

 Cape it preys on Lecanium hesperidwn. 



