EISOBA. 399 



Risoba proininens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 329; C. # S. 

 no. 1638. 



Head and thorax brown ; tegulae whitish. Pore wing whitish, 

 irrorated with brown; an oblique white basal band, the costal 

 area just beyond it red-brown ; the reniform round, with a dark 

 speck at centre ; a postmedial oblique double line slightly incurved 

 below vein 4, the area beyond it red-brown with traces of a sub- 

 marginal waved line ; some apical dark streaks ; a series of 

 marginal brown and white specks. Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 with broad brown marginal band. 



Larva purplish brown, palest at sides ; dorsal and lateral white 

 speckled lines, a sublateral series of whitish streaks ; a series of 

 black dots between the lateral and sublateral lines ; a conical 

 prominence on anal somite. Food-plant Qaisqualis. 



Hctb. N. China; throughout Peninsular India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Malacca ; Java. Exp. 28-36 millim. 



2279. Eisoba diversipennis, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1750 ; C.$S. no. 1635. 

 Risoba basalis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 91 ; C. fy S. no. 1633. 



Differs from obstructa in the costal area of fore wing being 

 whitish as far as end of cell ; a white quadrate spot below the 

 apical brown patch ; a crenulate marginal line. 



Hal. Sikhim; Khasis ; Ceylon; Moulmein ; Malacca; Borneo. 

 . 36 millim. 



2280. Eisoba literata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 329; C. $ S. 



no. 1636. 



Differs from diversipennis in the costal area of fore wing not 

 being white ; a straight oblique narrow postmedial white baud 

 obscuring the postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nilgiris. Exp. 38 millim. 



2281. Eisoba variegata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 94, pi. 4, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1645. 



Pitrasa vitellina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 94, pi. 4, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 1646. 



2 . Head and thorax brownish grey. Tore wing olive-yellow, 

 the costa suffused with reddish grey; a black speck at base, with 

 an oblique black and white streak from it ; a black speck at lower 

 angle of cell : an oblique postmedial series of dark specks, with a 

 very obscure grey baud inside them to lower angle of cell ; an 

 obscure apical streak and subrnarginal line ; a marginal series of 

 dark and pale specks. Hind wing pale, with broad fuscous outer 

 band ; underside with black lunule at end of cell. 



c? . Fore wing purplish ochreous ; the disk and outer area 

 suffused with purplish grey ; the series of specks developed into 

 an obliquely waved line. 



Hab. tSikhiin. Exp. 38 millim. 



