566 noctuipjf:. 



Genus EUSTROTIA. 



Type. 



Eustrotia, Hiibn . Verz. p. 253 (1827) uncula. 



Hydrelia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 227 (1841) olivana. 



Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B. M. p. 149 (1850), non clescr. ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307 uncula. 



Bankia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 231 (1852) olivana. 



Micardia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 81 (1878) argentata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short : frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically somewhat laminate and minutely 

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

 crest, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metnthorax with spreading 

 crest ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6" from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly 

 stalked or from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sf.ct. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches to apex. 



5849. Eustrotia melanchlsena. 



Tarache melanchlana, Swiuh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 148; Hmpsn. 

 Moths lnd. ii. p. 318. 



Head and thorax dark grey-brown ; abdomen -whitish suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing dark grey-brown ; an antemedial whitish 

 band tinged with rufous and bounded by the double antemedial 



Fig. 158. — Eustrotia melanchloena, rf . 



line filled in with grey and slightly sinuous ; orbicular faint, pale, 

 round ; the reniform a slight pale lunule ; an indistinct curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa and angled inwards at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4, a whitisli band beyond it ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wini, r 

 greyish brown ; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Much redder and without the greyish tinge. — Belgaum. 



Hub. Punjab, Jubbulpur, 1 d ; Bombay, Canara (Wise), 2 J 

 type ; Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 J , 4 $ . Exp. 16-22 millim. 



