ETIELLA. 109 



Pempelia spartiella, Rond. Bull Soc. Ent. Ital. 1876, p. 19, pi. i, 



figs. 1-15. 



Etiella madagascariensis, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 307. 

 Etiella decipiens, Stand. Berl. mt. Zeit. 1870, p. 195. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous or purplish brown. 

 Fore wing with a white costal fascia, with a grey-brown streak on 

 costa from before middle to near apex ; the rest of the wing grey- 

 brown usually suffused with rufous, especially at base and below 

 the costal fascia ; an antemedial yellow-brown band with a ridge 

 of raised red scales on its inner edge and a greyish patch before 

 it ; traces of a minutely dentate submarginal line and marginal 

 series of specks. Hind wing semi hyaline ; the veins, apical area, 

 a marginal line, and a line through the cilia brown. 



Larva apple-green, with a broad red-brown dorsal band ; head 

 yellow, with a brown line behind it; prothorax with two pairs of 

 depressed black spots and a lateral pair with reddish patches behind 

 them ; the other somites with black specks, the dorsal specks on 

 white patches and with pale hairs rising from them. It lives in 

 slender silken tubes in the pods of Colutea, Phaseolus, etc., and in 

 India is destructive to the Bombay Hemp, Crotolaria juncea. 



Hob. Universally distributed. Exp. 18-30 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male with uniseriate branches for two- 

 thirds length, the sinus and vesicular tuft very large. 



4435. Etiella venustella, n. sp. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with fuscous. 

 Eore wing slate-grey, with a large olive-yellow patch in, below, 

 and beyond end of cell, crossed by a slightly sinuous pale medial 

 line with a prominent black spot inside it below the cell ; a slight 

 ridge of raised scales at origin of vein 2 ; the grey area bounded 



Fig. 64. Etiella venustella, tf. \. 



by a minutely dentate whitish submarginal line ; the outer area 

 rufous, with a submarginal series of black marks largest towards 

 apex and with a pale line on their outer edge; cilia fuscous, 

 with a grey line at base. Hind wing pale semihyaline fuscous 

 brown. 



Hob. Bhutan (Dudgeon); Nagas (Doherty). Exp. 24 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



