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and the postmedial area suffused with fuscous ; indistinct curved 
dark subbasal and antemedial lines; a faint dark discoidal annulus 
and incurved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 
medial line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, incurved at 
discal fold and below vein 4; a punctiform blackish subterminal 
Fig, 229.— Gelaslocera erusta, 3. 
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7° 
line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia purple-red. Hind 
wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the termen and cilia 
tinged with purple-red except towards tornus ; the underside whiter, 
the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged with purplish. 
Hab. Javan, Hakodaté, 1 ¢ type, Yokohama (Andrewes), 1 3, 
29. Exp, 28-34 millim. Type ¢ ¢g rubicundula in Coll. 
Wileman. 
6993. Gelastocera castanea. 
Beara castanea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p.71, pl. 3. f. 9 (1879) ; Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind. ii. p. 427. 
Head and thorax deep purplish chestnut ; antenne dark brown ; 
pectus and legs whitish, the tibiz and tarsi suffused with purple, 
the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft 
purplish, the ventral surface white. Fore wing deep purplish 
chestnut with a silvery gloss; traces of a diffused curved blackish 
subbasal line and oblique slightly waved antemedial line; an 
indistinct blackish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line indistinct, 
blackish, exeurved below costa and incurved below vein 4; a 
punctiform blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at 
middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish 
white; the termen and cilia tinged with purple from apex to vein 2 
and with terminal series of dark strie; the underside with the 
costal area irrorated with red, the terminal area suffused with red 
from apex to vein 2, 
Hab, Sixuim (Atkinson, Méller),6 3,3 9. Exp. 34-40 millim. 
6994. Gelastocera ochroleucana. 
Earias ochroleucana, Staud. Rom. Mém. iii. p- 176, pl. 8. f. 11 (1887) ; id. 
Cat. Lep. pal. p. 862; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. pp. 282, 613. 
Mead and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous; antenne 
brown; pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the tarsi ringed 
with brown; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore 
wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the terminal half suffused with 
