490 NOCTUIOJE. 



antemedial line indistinct, blackish defined by ocbreous on inner 

 side, curved ; orbicular minute, round, rufous defined by black ; 

 reniform small, elliptical, with rufous centre and greyish aunulus 

 defined by black ; postmedial line double, filled in with grey to 

 discal fold where it is interrupted by a black spot, then filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 





Fig. 145. — Bhynchodia mesofhaa, (J. \. 



obliquely incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a faint oblique pale striga from costa ; a ter- 

 minal series of black points ; cilia with dark line at middle and 

 blackish tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area paler ; 

 a terminal series of blackish stria? ; cilia rufous with a dark line 

 at middle. Underside of fore wing clothed with black androconia 

 to submedian fold and beyond middle ; hind wing ochreous white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoid al spot, sinuous punctiform 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of black points. 



Bab. Teavancoee, Pirnnid (JUrs. Imray), 1 <S , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus ERASTHOIDES. 



Type. 

 Erastroides, Hrapen. 111. Het. B. M. is. p. 98 (1893) oliviaria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male somewhat laminate and minutely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed almost .entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, 

 the i Hemothorax with slight paired crests, tbemetathorax with spending crest ; tibise 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen rather oblique towards tornus and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the tertaen excurved at middle and excised below apex 

 and tc 

 above. 



and towards tornus ; hind tibia- with large tuft of scales at middle 



5738. Erastroides emarginata, n. sp. 



cT . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown ; 

 pectus white, the tarsi pure white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 rufous, the antemedial area and a postmedial patch on costa whitish, 



