184 noctuid^:. 



5271. Eublemma roseonivea. 



Acontia roseonivea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 49 (1864) ; Swinh. 

 Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 64, pi. 1. f. 11. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white, the head suffused with 

 rufous, the tegulge with dark brown line at base ; legs tinged 

 with brown, Fore wing creamy white slightly tinged with rulbus 

 except on costal area to beyond middle and on terminal area ; 

 subbasal, autemedial, and medial black-brown points on costa ; a 

 black discoidal point; traces of a sinuous medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; subterminal, line defined by deep rufous suffusion 

 on inner side except at costa, oblique from costa to vein (j where 

 it is acutely angled, angled inwards at discal fold, then excurved to 

 near termen at vein 2 and again slightly angled inwards and ending 

 at tornus, with slight black points beyond it between veins 7 and 4; 

 a terminal rufous line ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing 

 creamy white ; traces of a sinuous rufous medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line oblique, defined on inner side by a 

 deep rufous band from vein 6 to tornus and with black points 

 beyond it between veins 7 and 4; a fine rufous terminal line; 

 cilia pale rufous with a fine white line at base ; the underside 

 creamy white with a faint shade representing the subterminal 

 band. 



Ab. 1. pore wing with the subterminal line not angled inwards 

 at vein 2; hind wing with the subterminal line more curved and 

 less oblique. 



Hah. Boexeo, Sarawak, Malang (Shelford), 1 6 , Sandakan 

 (Pryer), 1 6 ; Philippines, Luzon, San Fernando {McGregor), 1 §. 

 Eccp. 2U-20 millim. Type f J in Mus. Oxon. 



5272. Eublemma ecthaemata. 



Euhkiiima ccthcEmata, Huipsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 262, pi. x. f. 6. 



£, Head and teguloe rufous mixed with some white; thorax 

 white; tarsi brown ringed with whitish; abdomen white faintly 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pure white; a subbasal black 

 point on costa ; a small autemedial black spot on costa and some 

 scales on inner margin ; an oblique reddish brown and black patch 

 before the posfmedial line from costa to lower angle of cell, the 

 reniform placed on it, with metallic bluish centre defined by black, 

 oblique and rather irregular ; postmedial line slight, double filled 

 in with white, excurved from below costa to vein 4, slightly 

 angled inwards at vein 2, then excurved and with black striga on 

 the inner line below vein 2, a faint rufous line beyond it and a 

 red-brown patch on costa; subterminal line with three black points 

 towards costa, then slightly defined on outer side by brownish, 

 minutely dentate, excurved at middle and to tornus ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line; cilia white tinged with brown. Hind wing 

 white ; a faint sinuous brownish postmedial line ; a diffused 



