168 NOCTUID.E. 



5243. Eublemma radda. (Plate CLIII. fig. 25.) 

 Eublemma radda, Swinb. A. M.N. H. (7) vii. p. 47-' (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish red mixed some whitish, 

 Fore wing whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish red ; traces of a sinuous rufous antemedial Hue ; a 

 dark point in middle of cell and small brownish discoidal spot ; 

 medial line indistinct, rufous, oblique from below costa to vein (5 

 far beyond the cell, then minutely waved and inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line excurved below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 blight dark points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, very indistinct, 

 waved ; a fine brownish terminal line. Hind wing whitish almost 

 entirely suffused and irrorated with purplish red ; a dark discoidal 

 striga ; an indistinct double oblique diffused rufous medial line ; 

 traces of a dentate postmedial line and of a waved whitish 

 subterminal line ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with rufous, a minute blackish discoidal lunule and 

 traces of two curved rufous postmedial lines. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak, 1 J , 1 § type, Kindling (Shelford), 

 1 2 ■ Exp. 24 millim. 



5244. Eublemma abrupta. 



Mestleta abrupta, Wlk. xxxiii. 830 (18R5); Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii. p. 208, 



pi. 174, ff. 2,2a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 342. 

 Thalpochares wallengreni, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 64, pi. v. t'. 6 



(1880). 

 Eublemma lurida, Pag. Zoologica. xii, p. 84, pi. ii. f. 40 (1900). 



Head and fcegulae rufous; thorax ochreous white tinged with 

 rufoiio ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown at base and 

 with fuscous towards extremity ; tarsi red-brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated 

 with fuscous : a minute subbasal black point in cell; antemedial 

 line indistinct, blackish, minutely dentate towards costa and 

 angled outwards below the cell ; a black point in middle of cell 

 and slight discoidal lunule ; medial line dark brown, very acutely 

 angled outwards below costa to near postmedial line where it is 

 met by an oblique black shade from apex, then very oblique and 

 double, the outer line blackish ; postmedial line fine, black, strongly 

 excurved below costa, then oblique and dentate ; an ochreous 

 spot below costa towards apex with a small triangular spot on 

 costa beyond it ; a minute dentate suhterminal white mark below 

 apex, then a series of black points with an oblique streak from 

 the point in submedian fold to tornus ; a fine red-brown terminal 

 line ; cilia red-brown except at base. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous ; a double oblique medial line, the inner line 

 red-brown, the outer fuscous ; postmedial line blackish, dentate 

 and produced to i lack points on the veins, excurved at middle ; 

 a subterminal seric&\of slight black points and a blackish patch 



