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middle and towards apex; veins 4, 5 somewhat approximated for 

 a short distance ; the discocellulars erect ; veins 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 touching 8, but not anastomosing with it. 



5094. Terastia meticulosalis, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 212. 



Terastia subjectalis, Led. Wien. ent Mon. 1863, p. 480 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4285. 

 Megaphysa quadratalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1527. 



Pale fawn-colour. Fore wing with the basal area slightly 

 suffused with rufous ; a pale oblique antemedial bar from the 

 costa with a dark spot on its outer side, and bounded by an 

 inwardly-oblique hyaline band from below costa to vein 1 ; a 

 prominent oblique rufous medial band with a semihyaline patch 

 beyond it ; a rufous discocellular lunule ; a pale oblique bar with 

 dark inner edge from costa before apex, continued as a band 



Fig. 206. Terastia meticulosalis, rf. \. 



formed of three waved lines to inner margin ; a rufous line close 

 to the margin. Hind wing hyaline ; the costal lobe fuscous ; the 

 apical area suffused with ochreous and rufous ; postmedial and 

 submarginal curved lines obsolete from vein 3 to inner margin ; a 

 line close to the margin. 



Larva bores in young stems of Erythrina.] 



Hob. St. Domingo ; Honduras ; Ceylon ; Java ; Philippines, 

 Eocp. 38 millim. 



5095. Terastia egialealis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 383 ; C. $ S. no. 4294. 

 Terastia proceralis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, pp. 416, 480. 

 Agathodes diversalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1307. 

 Megaphysa quadriferalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1528. 



Differs from meticulosalis in the colour being bright ferruginous. 

 Fore wing with the inner area and apex suffused with golden 

 yellow ; no antemedial bar ; the hyaline band erect and inwardly 

 edged by a waved black line ; the medial rufous band figure-of-8- 

 shaped ; the hyaline patch in the cell quadrate ; the inner edge of 

 the subapical band black, then reduced to specks below vein 6. 

 Hind wing with the costal lobe black ; the postmedial line reduced 

 to black specks. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Java. Exp. 40-54 millim. 



