402 NocTum.r. 



black ; fore tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with yellowish ; 

 abdomen greenish tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Pore wing yellow-green ; the costal edge black on basal half ; 

 subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 with black striga from costa, below the cell black slightly defined 

 by white on inner side and with rufous patch before it on inner 

 area, slightly angled inwards in submedian fold, then oblique to 

 above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular round white spots 

 defined by black, the latter small ; reniform large, white defined 

 by black except above where it is diffused to costa, constricted at 

 middle ; a medial black shade, oblique from costa to reniform, 

 inwardly oblique below the cell ; post medial line black, bent 

 outwards and interrupted below costa by the white above reniform 

 then defined on outer side by whitish, minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique, with triangular white patch beyond it on 

 inner margin and some white points on costa with black streaks 

 between them ; subterminal line defined on inner side by a broad 

 band of black suffusion from costa to vein 2 extending to the excurved 

 part of postmedial line, white towards costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle and bent 

 inwards at vein 2, some black points beyond it at apex and middle ; 

 a terminal series of black striae with white points between them; 

 cilia black-brown mixed with greenish. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, in female 

 wholly suffused with cupreous brown ; a fine black terminal line ; 

 cilia whitish mixed with fuscous and with fuscous line through 

 them ; the underside white irrorated with black except beyond the 

 cell from below costa to vein 2, a black discoidal spot and curved 

 crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Pebc, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 tf . Exp. 24 millim. 

 Tj pe f d in Coll. Druce. 



5740. Erastroides flavibasalis. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 23.) 



Erastroides flavibasalis, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 445 (1897). 



3 . Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous : palpi black mixed 

 with white, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ochreous ; 

 antennae black ; patagia with some white scales at tips ; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish irrorated with white, the tarsi with pale rings; 

 abdomen ochreous whitish irrorated with fuscous, the crests 

 blackish. Fore wing olive-green, a patch of orange on basal area 

 and another on inner medial area, the costa and medial and post-? 

 medial areas except towards inner margin suffused with black and 

 irrorated with blue-white : some blue-white striae on costa ; ante- 

 medial line black, obsolete on costal area, obliquely curved from 

 cell to inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell ; a whitish 

 discoidal lunule defined by black at sides, the white produced to 

 slight streaks on the veins beyond upper and lower angles of cell ; 

 an incurved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 





