ERIZADA.—PTYONOTA. 579 
Sxcr. LIT. Antenne of male almost simple. 
6986. Erizada rufa. 
Erizada rzfa, Wimpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 686 (1905). 
3. Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus and legs whitish, fore 
tibix rufous, the tarsi banded with rufous; abdomen whitish, 
dorsally tinged with red except at base. Fore wing rufous, the 
basal costal area brown: a brown patch on costa from middle to 
near apex with avery oblique diffused rufous band from it to inner 
Fig, 224.—LKrizada rufa, 3. }. 
margin ; cilia deep rnfous at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing 
pale red, the basal and costal areas slightly paler. Underside of 
fore wing suffused with fiery red except marginal areas, 
Hab. Sura (Wallace), 1 g type. Hvp. 22 millim, 
Genus PTYONOTA. Type 
Ptyonota, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 424 (1894) ................eee formosa, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, lhe 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 5rd moderate; {rons smooth; eyes 
large, round ; antennz of female almost simple; thorax clothed with scales 
and hair mixed and without crests; tibix smoothly scaled; abdomen with 
large fan-shaped basal crest. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, 
the termen strongly excised below apex and slightly excurved at middle and 
vein 2; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 
10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 fully developed from angle of cell and closely 
approximated to 3, 4 for some distance; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 
tomosing with the cell near base only, 
6987. Ptyonota formosa. 
Ptyonota formosa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 425 (1894). 
Q. Head and tegule dark brown; thorax white mixed with 
purplish red; abdomen purplish red, the basal crest silvery white, 
the anal tuft white. Fore wing purplish red suffused with white 
except on inner half of antemedial area and the outer half of medial 
area; a brown subbasal band from costa to median nervure ; ante- 
medial line brown, sinuous, double and defined by white below the 
cell; a rufous point in end of cell and small discoidal lunule 
defined by rufous; an inecurved line from lower angle of cell to 
inner margin; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 
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