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SECT. I. Mid tibiae of male dilated with a fold containing 

 a ridge of hair. 



4812. Ercta elntalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 448 ; C. $ S. no. 4367 (part.). 

 Pyralis aonisalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 911. 

 Botys bornealis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 135, fig. 27. 

 Spanista pretiosalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 239, & xxvii, 

 p. 47, pi. 4, figs. 9, 9 a. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous and rufous, variegated with black 

 and a few purple-grey scales ; abdomen reddish brown, with the 



base and anal tuft blackish. 

 Fore wing with the basal area 

 rufous, thickly irrorated with 

 black and with patches of 

 silvery scales ; the medial area 

 paler, with a silver patch in 

 cell, two below it, and two 



Fig. 165. Ercta elutalis, <$. }. on . discocellulars ; an oblique 



minutely waved postmedial 

 black line with silvery outer edge and angled outwards on vein 2 ; 

 the outer area rufous suffused with black ; the costa and margin 

 with pale and silvery markings. Hind wing with the base black ; 

 the medial area whitish, with black speck at lower angle of cell and 

 some brown scales beyond it; a postmedial sinuous line with 

 silvery outer edge ; the outer area rufous, with blackish suffusion 

 near apex and silvery marks on the margin. 



with the medial area of fore wing paler, and no silvery marks 

 below the cell. 



Hdb. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo ; Celebes. Ex p. 24 millim. 



SECT. II. Mid tibiaB of male with no dilation or fold. 



4813. Ercta ornatalis, Dup. lAp. France, viii, pt. 2, p. 207, pi. 223, 



fig. 8 ; C. 8f S. no. 4367 (part.). 



Nymph ula saturnalia, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. x. 3. 29. 

 Pyralis deciusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 905. 

 Cataclysta fraterna, Butl. A.M.N. H. (4) xvi, p. 415. 



Differs from elutalis in the medial area of fore wing being 

 usually as dark as the basal and outer area, which are less suffused 

 with black ; hind wing with the medial area sparsely clothed with 

 hair and long spatulate scales ; the postmedial line of fore wing 

 nearly straight from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards, on hind 

 wing more regularly curved. 



Hob. S. Nearctic, Neotropical, and Ethiopian regions ; S. 

 Europe ; the Oriental and Australian regions. Exp. 20-22 

 inilliin. 



