208 



Thorax coppery red ; abdomen blue-black, with a narrow white 

 medial band. Legs black with white spots. 



(From Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, pis. iv. & vi.) 



Larva dirty brown ; the head reddish brown ; the first somite 

 black. Feeds on Clerodendron, drawing together the tops with u 

 web. 



Hab. Calcutta. Kvp. 13-14 millim. 



Genus ERETMOCERA, 



Eretmocera, Zell Vet. Ak. Handl 1852, p. 96fl8o4 ). 



Staintonia, Stgr. Mrttin. <-nt. /<//. \x. )>. L':>() (1809). 



Exodomorpha, Wlk. Cat. xxix, p. 833 (1864). 



Castorura, Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ser. 2, i, p. 1047 (1887). 



Type, E. fuscipennis, Zell., from S. Africa. 



Range. Africa ; India ; Australia. 



Antenna? as in (Edematopoda ; the third joint of palpi not quite 

 so long. The upper angle of cell of both wings produced; fore 

 wing with vein 1 b not forked, 6 absent ; hind \\ ing with vein 1 6 

 not forked. Legs without tufts of scales. 



400. Eretmocera impactella, ink. Cat. xxix, p. 637 ; Wlsm. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 34, pi. vi, fig. 18 j C. tS. no. 4939. 



Head and thorax cupreous ; collar, tegul, metathorax, and 

 abdomen yellow, the latter with the second, third, and terminal 



Fig. 135. Eretmocera impactella, . 

 (From Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, pis. T. & vi.) 



segments cupreous. Fore Ming cupreous, with four yellow spots. 

 Hind wing paler. 



Hab. N.E. India. Exp. 15 millim. 



