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Genus EUROIS. 



Eurois, Hilbn. Verz. p. 217 (1818). 

 Chiripha, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 200 (1856). 

 Ohecupa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 60. 



Type, E. occulta, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palaearctic regions ; throughout India and 

 Ceylon ; Assam Hills. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 upturned, reaching vertex of head, and smoothly scaled ; thorax 

 with a small furrowed tuft behind collar and a pair of tufts on 

 rnetathorax ; abdomen without tufts, the dorsal part of proximal 

 segments clothed with coarse hair; tibiae without spines; fore 

 wing with the cilia crenulate. . 



SECT. I. Antennae of male fasciculate. 

 A. Fore wing short and broad. 



1772. Eurois retrahens, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 757 ; Hmpsn. III. Het ix 



pi. 162, fig. 6 ; C.$8. no. 2145. 



. Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing dark red-brown; subbasal and antemedial oblique, slightly 

 waved double lines filled in with white ; the orbicular and reniform 

 with whitish outline and dark centre ; a postmedial double line 

 filled in with white, acutely angled beyond the cell, and slightly 

 waved from the angle to inner margin, where it nearly meets the 

 antemedial line; a pale streak on inner margin; an irregularly 

 waved obsolescent submarginal pale line ; a marginal lunulate 

 black line. Hind wing dark fuscous, the bases of cilia ochreous ; 

 underside with a cell- spot and postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



1773. Eurois luteifrons, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 751 ; C. $ S. no. 1953. 



Differs from retrahens in the head being ochreous ; the abdomen 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with the postmedial line curved 

 instead of angled beyond the cell, and with ochreous and chestnut 

 beyond it ; the submarginal line reduced to a series of pale specks 

 on dark lunules. Hind wing with the basal area tinged with 

 ochreous ; traces of a postmedial line. 



Hab. Kashmir; Khasis. Exp. 88 millim. 



1774. Eurois decorata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. Ill, pi. 4, fig. 8 ; C. $ S. 



no. 2073. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown, irrorated with grey ; abdomen 

 reddish ochreous. Fore wing dark red-brown, irrorated with grey ; 

 the subbasal and antemedial double waved dark lines oblique; the 

 orbicular and reniform conjoined on median nervure, aud with 



