EUSTKOTIA. 



the fore tibiae and the tarsi blackish ringed with white, 

 with the basal half grey suffused with purplish fuscous, I 

 ruin;*] half purplish brown tinged with leaden grey, fchi villi 



Bmall pink spots ; subbasal line indistinct, pale, from ■ ub- 



median fold; antemedial line indistinct, "whitish, nearly straight to 

 vein 1 , then excurved ; reniform greywith wl.'.te annulus 

 above and below, defined by black spots and points 

 and constricted at middle; postmedial line fuscous defined on i 

 side by grey, bent outwards below COSta, then inwardly obli 

 slightly incurved at discal and submedian folds, with slight blackish 

 iks beyond it above and below vein (i and slight blackish mark 

 before it in submedian fold j subterminal line fine, white, minutely 

 dentate, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved in sul 

 interspace ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fusi 

 brown witb a greyish tinge, the cilia pale reddish brown ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a small 

 black discoidal spot and diffused maculate postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



$. Head, tborax, and fore wing paler and much redder; b 

 wings with the cilia pinkish. 



Hub. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 J, 1 J type. B 

 34 millim. 



5901. Eustrotia excavata. | Plate CI. XVI. fig. 27.) 



\de& excavata, YVlk. xxxiii. 973(1865); Hmpsn. Motba [nd. ii. 

 p. ;;29. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with gr< 

 fore tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing with the ; 

 half grey thickly irrorated with dark red-brown, th inal half 



chocolate-red mixed with some grey ; subbasal line double, red- 

 brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line doul 

 brown, slightly sinuous, a somewhat diffused red-brown lin 

 it; reniform with Blight grey annulus defined by blacl 

 points, open above: postmedial line double tilled in with whitish, 

 angled outwards below costa. then oblique and de 



by whitish, some grey before and beyond it at costa ai 

 pale rufous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal lini 

 Blightly sinuous to vein :'>. then waved ; a terminal - ight 



brown lunules ; cilia with grey lint s at base an Muni 



wing reddish brown tinged with grey ; cilia grey at base ai 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, the costal area ti; 

 with yellowish, a slight discoidal point and indisti lial 



and subterminal liiu ->. 



Hab. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 ".1 

 house), 1 5 type. Exp, 30-32 millim. 



