THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 1079 



1839 b. Eriopus guttulalis. 



1839. • Eriopus strigilineaxa. 



1839 e. Eriopus venata. 



Callopistria venata, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1900, p. Ill ;• 

 Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 573, pi. 121, f. 11. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white and some rufous, a 

 white bar between antennae, tegulae with white medial line and whitish tips ; 

 tibiae and tarsi mixed with white : abdomen grey-brown with whitish 

 segmental lines, the crests ochreous and black. Forewing greyish tinged 

 with purplish-pink and thickly irrorated and suffused with black, the veins 

 of medial area with pinkish streaks; subbasal line represented by white 

 striae from costa and cell with an oblique white striga beyond it across the 

 cell ; antemedial line double, black filled in with white and defined by 

 pinkish on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 1, bent inwards to inner 

 margin, an oblique whitish striga before it from submedian fold to vein 1 ; 

 claviform defined by an oblique pinkish streak above ; orbicular with black 

 centre and whitish annulus, oblique elliptical ; reniform with oblique white 

 bar on inner side, curved pink lunule in centre defined by black on inner 

 side, its outer edge defined by an oblique white striga and bar beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; an oblique series of blackish marks in the interspaces from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, black filled in 

 with white, the inner line lunulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line formed by oblique white streaks above veins 7 and 6, then slight and 

 angled inwards at discal fold, with oblique white streak to termen at vein 

 4, then obsolescent and defined by blackish on inner side, incurved and 

 with white striga between veins 3 and 2 ; a terminal series of white lunules ; 

 cilia black at tips. Hindwing reddish brown with terminal series of slight 

 brown lunules ; cilia with slight white line at base, wholly white at subme- 

 dian interspace ; the underside white irrorated with brown especially on 

 costal area, a slight discoidal spot, waved postmedial line, indistinct 

 diffused subterminal shade, and terminal series of small lunules defined by 

 white on inner side. 



Habitat. — Central China ; W. China ; Assam, Khasis. Exp. 30-36 

 mill. 



B. Forewing with the termen very slightly angled at vein 4. 



a. (Methorasa) Mid tibiae of male fringed on both sides with very 



long hair, the first three joints of tarsi fringed with long hair 

 above, in female the first joint only fringed with hair above ; 

 hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair above. 

 1838. Eriopus latreillei. 



b. Mid and hind tibiae and 1st joint of tarsi and the inner spurs 



of mid tibiae with very large tufts of hair and scales. 



