6 IS N0CTUID-E. 



define don inner side by a red-brown band and on outer side by 

 rufous, slightly excnrved below vein 7, excurved and minutely 

 waved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a lunulate ter- 

 minal black line defined on inner side by whitish; cilia with a 

 brown line near tips with some whitish before it. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with reddish 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a blackish diseoidal spot. 



Rah. Cape Colonv, Deelfontein (Slorjgett), 2 2 type. Exp. 

 16-18 millim. 



Genus EULOCASTRA. 



l.vpe. 



• Eulocastra, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 419 fasciata. 



Thalerastria, Staud. Iris, x. p. 294 (1897) diaphora. ' 



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

 of head and smoothly scaled, tbe 3rd rather long; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antenna? of male somewhat laminate and almost simple: thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibire slightly fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 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 typically from angle of cell; 5 almost 

 fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Thalerastria). Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wing ochreous white, the base, a triangular medial 



mark on costa, and the termen blackish diaphora. 



B. Fore wing fuscous with pale antemedial band. 



a. Fore wing with the band ochreous white ochrizona. 



b. Fore wing with the band pure white. 



a 1 . Fore wing with white postrnedial spot on costa meltsna. 



b l . Fore wing without white postrnedial spot on costa leucoba&is. 



5935. Eulocastra diaphora. 



Erastria diapJmra, Staud. Hor. Ent. Soc. Boss. xiv. p. 415 (1878); id. 



Rom. Mem. ii. p. 74, pi. 3. f. 11 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 230. 

 ThaZpochares triangularis, Warr. P. Z S. 1888, p. 309, Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 317. 

 Metachrostis atribasalis, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 2G1, pi. x. f. 11. 

 Thuleras/riu latuuirta, Staud. Iris, x. p. 291 (1897). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 whitish mixed with fuscous: pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae 

 and the tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white with 

 faint dorsal grey bands. Fore wing yellowish white tinged with 

 rufous ; the basal area black-brown slightly glossed with grey ; 

 an oblique triangular black-brown patch from middle of costa to 

 lower angle of cell ; traces of a pale postrnedial line ; a narrow 

 terminal black-brown band expanding somewhat at apex, discal 



