58l 5 xoctuid^;. 



5872. Eustrotia olivula. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 5.) 



Bankia olivula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 231, pl.x. f. 8 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 310. 



2 . Head and thorax white mixed with some olive-brown espe- 

 cially on head and tegulae ; tarsi ringed with olive; abdomen white 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing white ; a triangular olive-green 

 patch on basal costal area ; a broad medial olive-green band 

 expanding triangularly to inner margin ; a black point at lower 

 angle of cell; an olive-green mark beyond the cell before the post- 

 medial line, which is olive-green, arising at vein 7, oblique to vein 6, 

 and below vein 4 bent inwards and forming the outer edge of the 

 medial band ; a semicircular olive-green patch on postmedial costal 

 area, the costal edge brown with three white points on it ; a ■ 

 terminal olive-green band from vein 7 to 1, angled inwards at 

 vein 5 to near postmedial line and forming a large triangular patch 

 from it to vein 1 ; a terminal series of dark brown striae ; cilia 

 reddish brown and white. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous, 

 the termen with rufous from vein 6 to submedian fold ; a fine 

 brown terminal line ; cilia white mixed with red-brown : the 

 underside yellowish white irrorated with red-brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with fiery red from apex to submedian fold, indistinct 

 curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Bab. Cape Colony, 1 $ , Zeller Coll. Exp. 30 millim. The 

 locality N. America is almost certainly a mistake. 



5873. Eustrotia erecta. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 6.) 



Bankia erecta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 373; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 308. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 brown : antennae dark brown slightly ringed with white ; fore 

 tibia) and the tarsi blackish slightly ringed with white. Fore wing 

 white tinged with rufous ; the basal part of costa rufous ; a sub- 

 basal black point in cell ; a minutely waved somewhat inwardly 

 oblique medial black line with rather broad deep rufous band 

 beyond it ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line represented 

 by a black striga from costa on the outer edge of the rufous band, 

 traces of a rufous line beyond the cell, and by a black line on outer 

 edge of the rufous band below the cell excurved towards inner 

 margin ; an oblique diffused rufous wedge-shaped patch from apex 

 to vein 5 with two dark points on it at costa ; subterminal line 

 with black striga from costa, then slight, whitish, excurved, the 

 area beyond it rufous ; cilia rufous at base, black mixed with 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; cilia 

 whitish with dark line at middle and dark tips ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal point and 

 traces of a postmedial line oblique below vein 6. 



