EEASTROIDES. — TROCTOPTEEA. !)i) 



before the end ; the submcdiau nearly straight, llind wing witli the costal anastomosing witli 

 the suheostal near the base ; the two siibcostals from the end of the cell ; the radial from near 

 the lower end; the second and tliird medians from the lower end, the first from before the 

 end ; snbmedian and internal ncrvurcs. 



Erastroides oliviaria. (Plate CIA II. fig. 23.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Female. Fore wing whitish, suffused and blotched with olive ; douljle waved antciuedial 

 and postmedial dark lines ; a quadrate dark patch at the end of the cell ; a conspicuous black 

 spot near the outer angle ; a scries of black marginal specks. Hind wing fuscous. Under- 

 side fuscous ; both wings with au indistinct, waved, postmedial line and series of marginal 

 black specks ; hind wing with a cell-spot. 



EUBLEMMINjE. 



TROCTOPTERA, g. n. 



Palpi slight and porreet. Antennae pubescent ; the basal joint stout. Fore wing some- 

 what broad ; the inner margin excised ; costal nervure straight ; the subcostal gives off the first 

 and second subcostals before the end of the cell, the third from the end, from which the fourth 

 arises just before the apex, and the fifth nearer the cell ; the upper radial from just below the 

 end of the cell, which is open ; the lower radial and three median nervules at intervals. 

 Hind wing with the costa excised ; the outer margin rounded, slightly emarginate towards 

 the anal angle; the costal far removed from the subcostal; the two subcostals from the end 

 of the cell, wdiich is open; radial from just above the lower end of the cell; the second and 

 third median nervules on a footstalk from the end ; the first from before the end ; submcdiau 

 and internal nervules. 



Troctoptera eriibescens. (Plate CLVII. fig. IG.) 



Expanse cJ | inch. 



Male. Fore wing pale pinkish white, brownish then oehreous towards the apex ; a black 

 speck towards the end of the cell ; an indistinct, lunulate, curved postmedial band, with a 

 black lunule on it between the radials, ending near the outer angle in a small black spot, 

 followed by a larger spot on a triangular yellow ground ; an indistinct series of marginal 

 specks. Hind wing whitish suffused with pink, especially towards the outer margin ; a red 

 medial band, obsolescent on the disk, with a quadrate brown-outlined yellow spot on it below 

 the subcostal, followed by a triangular, brown-outlined, yellow patch on the costa; a brownish 

 suffused band towards the outer margin. Head and collar white ; thorax and abdomen 

 pinkish. Underside whitish, with the disk of the lore wing suffused ^^ ith fuscous, ami an 

 irregular, fuscous, submarginal band on the iiind wing, wide at the middle. 



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