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blackish mark on middle of inner margin and another before termen above 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points, the cilia somewhat crenulate. 

 Hindwing whitish suffused with pale brownish-ochreous, the terminal area 

 with fuscous ; cilia whitish at tips. 



fi'a&zto^.— Cuddapah, Horsleykhonda, 3500' (W. H. Campbell). Exp. 30 

 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1990a. Erastria dorata, n. sp. 



9. Head and thorax golden-yellow mixed with reddish-brown ; abdomen 

 pale-ochreous mixed with fuscous, Forewing pale largely suffused with 

 ferruginous and dark-brown and irrorated with a few black scales ; some 

 white scales below basal half of costa ; an antemedial white line ; an irregu- 

 lar medial white edged golden mark, toothed on outer side in cell ; a similar 

 S-shaped reniform stigma ; the inner area golden from just before the ante- 

 medial to the postmedial line, which is strongly excurved from costa to vein 

 4, then angled inwards, defined on inner side below vein 4 by a golden band 

 and on outer side by a slender white line ; the termen and cilia golden with 

 fine black terminal line. Hindwing yellowish-white strongly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a discoidal spot and minutely waved postmedial line more distinct 

 on underside ; a fine terminal black line. 



Habitat.— QQjlon (Mackwood). Exp. 30 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 1993a. Erastbia NivEiGUTTATA, Dudgeon. Ined. 



9. Head pure white; antennae black except basal joint; palpi with the 

 second and third joints ringed with black ; frons with triangular medial black 

 spot and lateral points ; thorax black ; patagia with some white scales ; meta- 

 thorax with white patch ; abdomen grey with dorsal black tufts. Forewing 

 black with irregular subbasal ante- and postmedial white patches on costa, the 

 first small, and ante- and postmedial patches on inner margin ; some white 

 points on costa near end of cell and near termen. Hindwing whitish with 

 two obscure fuscous medial lines and the terminal area fuscous. 

 Habitat.— ^ikh\m,UW. J^a-^. 40 mill, 

 1996a. Maliattha plumbitincta, n, sp. 



Head whitish and olive-yellow ; abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous and 

 with the dorsal tufts fuscous. Forewing with the base olive-green turning to 

 yellow ; the medial area darker-green irrorated with black and becoming 

 brownish towards costa, defined on inner side by a sinuous white line from 

 cell to inner margin, defined on outer side by a dentate leaden-grey line edged 

 with black, slightly excizrved at median nervules and becoming white below 

 vein 2 ; a leaden-grey discoidal spot and the median nervules streaked with 

 grey to the postmedial line ; some diffused black beyond the postmedial line, 

 its outer edge sinuous, excised between veins 4 and 6, and with patches of leaden 

 scales beyond it at costa, vein 5, and above inner margin ; the terminal area 

 bright-green ; the cilia grey irrorated with white, Hindwing white, the inner 

 area slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of dark striae; the 

 cilia tipped with fuscous towards apex, 

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