SYPffA. ERCHEIA. 451 



black lunules. Underside ochreous, irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing with oblique medial and post medial black bands not reaching 

 costa or inner margin ; a diffused submarginal band : hind wing 

 with medial line bent inwards towards costa; crenulate postmedial 

 line and diffused submarginal band. 



In replicata=apicalis=pla}ia the apex of hind wing is ochreous ; 

 floccosa has white suffusion on postmediai area of fore wing; 

 renisigna some white spots round the reniform stigma. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Shillong ; Tavoy. Exp. 50-58 

 millim. 



SECT. II. Mid tibiae spined. 



2387. Sypna pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 168, pi. 5, fig. 12 ; C. $ S. 



no. 2518. 



Head red-brown ; thorax greyish black ; abdomen red-brown, 

 with the dorsal tufts and extremity black. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with grey, and irrorated with rufous ; a basal black patch 

 crossed by the subbasal rufous line ; indistinct antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial rufous waved lines, the latter excurved beyond 

 cell ; a large black patch at apex and larger patch with slight 

 white marks on it at outer angle. Hind wing fuscous-brown ; 

 a large black patch with slight white marks on it at anal angle ; 

 some diffused black on submarginal area ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Underside with two straight medial black bands on 

 fore wing and two crenulate lines on hind wing. 



Hab. N. W. Himalayas ; Khasis. Exp. 64 millim. 



Genus ERCHEIA. 

 Ercheia, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1107 (1857). 



Type, E. cyllaria, Cram. 



Range. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian regions. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 long in both sexes ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; mid and hind tibiae spined, fore 

 tibiaa of male clothed with rather long hair. Fore wing with the 

 apex somewhat rounded, the cilia of both wings crenulate. 



2388. Ercheia cyllaria, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 251, C, D ; C. $ S. 



no. 2583. 



Achgea cyllota, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 248 ; C. $ S. no. 2584. 

 Ercheia diversipennis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1108; C. $ S. no. 



2585. 



Achgea signivitta, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1398. 

 Achrea polychroma, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1400. 

 Acheea fusifera, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1398 ; C. $ S. no. 2586. 

 Melipotis ambidens, Feld. He is. Nov. pi. 116, fig. 9. 

 Ercheia tenebrosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 66; C. $> S. no. 



2589. 

 Ercheia pannosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 24; C. $ S. no. 2587. 



