n: \si R0IDES.- LIQ HAI 'Mi! \. 



lit' 



Huh. Bombay, Kanara, Anshi (Bell), 1 P; Madras, B 

 (Watson), ] c? . 1 £ . Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 rf typ< 

 Thayetmyo (Fct^oh), 1 $ . Eajp. 20 26 millim. 



5747. Erastroides propera. (Plate CLXIII. 



Etistn . . ■ . lio, ii. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 311. 



pp. L32, 184 1- 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with grey; pectus 

 and hind legs paler ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdoi 

 ochreous white suffused with brown. Fore wing dark brown slightly 

 tinged with grey to post medial line and on costal area to subterminal 

 , the terminal area ochreous white tinged with rufous; ante- 

 medial line very indistinct, blackish defined on inner side by 

 ochreous, oblique from costa to middle of cell, then minutely waved ; 

 daviform defined by ochreous and black at extremity; orbicular 

 an ochreous point defined by diffused black and with oblique black 



2 i above it from costa ; reniform with brown centre and white 

 annulus defined by black, oblique ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with white, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly sinuous, some whitish 

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

 defined on inner side towards costa by the dark area and at mi 

 by rufous suffusion, minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 3 : a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous black. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; a 

 terminal series of black striae ; cilia whitish with a fine dark line 

 mar base : the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal point and curved minutely crenulate postmedial line. 



llah. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co., U,l?. Exp. 20 millim. 



us LITHACODIA. T 



; \ Ilubn. Vera. p. 205 | L827) 



Malialtha, Wlk. xxvii. 86 I 1863) 



Moore, Lep. Ltk. p. 110 (1882 



hiroe, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 350 I 1891 i 



j, Huipsn. Moths' Ind. ii. p. 304 (1894) 



iboacis fully developed ; palpi upturned the 2nd joint n 

 of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, 



•ii : eyes large, round ; ant, ■nun- of uial 

 with scales, tin- prothorax without crest, the n • is with - 



3, the tnetathorax with spreading crest; I with 



domen with dorsal crests on : 

 •till segments large. Fore wing with the apes rounded, I 

 oblique towards tornus ; reins 3 and 5 from near ai 



• from 10 an g with 6 



Hind wing with veins 3, 4 typically from 



from below mid. lie of discoi 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Larva with the prolegs on 7th somite absent, on Bth n 

 [n Borne spei mien- of L.f< (on th< 

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