012 xoctuid.e. 



5924. Eustrotia flavifrons. 

 Gesoniaflavifrons, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 552, pi. 214. f. 8 (1887). 



6 . Head yellow ; palpi blackish to near extremity of 2nd joint ; 

 antenna? brown ; thorax fuscous brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing uniform ochreous suffused 

 with fuscous brown. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with 

 brown, the cilia paler ; the underside ochreous with a brown dis- 

 coidal spot. 



Ab. 1. TegulaB with yellow spot at base, the patagia and thorax 

 ochreous ; fore wing ochreous without fuscous tinge except on 

 terminal area; hind wing on underside with some brown at base 

 of costa and without discoidal spot. — Sikhim, Bhutan. ■ 



Palpi with the 3rd joint rather long. 



Hah. SrKHiM ( Pilcher), 1 J ; Bht;tax (Dudgeon), 1 J ; Ceylon. 

 1 J type. Exp. 22 milliin. 



5925. Eustrotia marginata. 



Earias marginata, Wlk. xxxv. 1775 (1866) : Hnipsn. 111. Het. B. M. vii! 

 p. 13. pi. 143. f. 21; id. Moths Ind. ii. p 316. 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow ; palpi, lower part of frons. 

 antennas, pectus in front, and fore legs deep red-brown, the mid 

 and hind legs tinged with red-brown ; abdomen ochreous yellou 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing bright ochreous yellow, the 

 terminal area purplish fuscous bounded on inner side by a minutely 

 waved black line incurved from apex to inner margin just before 

 tornus. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown 

 rather darker in female. 



In the type from Java the fore wing has a small antemedial tuft 

 of raised black scales in submedian fold and two on discocellubirs, 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, 1 <5 , Dharrnsala (Hocl-inc/), 5 c?, 2 $ 

 Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 1 <$ , 1 $ , Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 $ 

 Burma, Thayetmyo (Watson), 1 rf ; Java (HorsfieJd), 1 $ type 

 Celebes, Makassar ( Wallace), 1 $ . Exp. 16-20 millim. 



Genus STEN0RA.CHE, nov. 



Type, S. nubilosa. 



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

 middle of frons and smoothly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth; eye 

 large, round; antenna? of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothec 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdo 

 men without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded ; tin 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angl 

 of cell : 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form thi 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 coincident ; 5 almost full; 

 developed from above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastoinosin: 

 with the cell to middle. 



