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dark-edged above ; head reddish brown or dark brown ; thoracic plate 

 blackish with whitish lines. Food plant : Grasses. 



1710c. Pabastichtis boopis, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii., p. 



102, pi. 110, f. 12 (1908). 

 Head and thorax greyish tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated 

 with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; teguke 

 with black medial line and black line on pro thorax ; tarsi black with pale 

 rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests tipped with black, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface rufous. Forewing red-brown slightly irrorated with dark 

 brown, the costal half on antemedial and medial areas suffused with dark 

 brown, a dark brown costal patch on postmedial area and the terminal 

 area dark brown except at apex ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a slight black streak below base of cell and another 

 above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is indistinct, double, 

 oblique, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular rufous 

 defined by black, round or oblique elliptical ; reniform defined by black on 

 inner side and with large grey lunule on outer edge defined by black on 

 inner side ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to below the cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate and produced to black streaks with grey points on 

 them on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on the dark costal patch ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds ; a tine waved dark terminal line ; cilia chequered greyish 

 and fuscous, with punctiform rufous line at base. Hindwing fuscous, the 

 cilia pale rufous ; the underside pale rufous irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and traces of diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Habitat. — W. China ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, Dharmsala ; Assam 

 Khasis. Exp. 40-44 mill. 



1764. Pabastichtis leucostigma. 



Xylophasia leucostigma, Moore, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 51. 

 Hadena constellata, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 130, pi. iv., f. 21 (1882). 

 Euplexia oxydatu, Hmpsn., J. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xiv., p. 199 (1902). 

 17176. Pabastichtis puepubina, Hmpsn., J. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xiv., 

 p. 199, (1902) ; id. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii., p. 106, pi. 110, 

 f. 17. 



Genus Ettbabila. 



Type. 



Eurabila, Butl., 111. Het. B. M., vii., p. 39 ( 1889) . . . . lignea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, moderately scaled, 

 the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated and somewhat laminate ; head 



