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1839«. Eriopus variegata. 



c. Fore, mid, and hind tibiae of male with large tufts of hair and 

 scales above. 



1839/", Eriopus leucobasis. 



Eriopus leucobasis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii, p. 581, 

 (1900). . • . 



Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some white and black 

 scales; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joint white; frons 

 white with lateral black bars ; tegulse with blackish lines at base, middle, and 

 tips ; spurs tipped with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with red-brown leaving whitish segmental bands, the crest on 3rd, 

 segment black. Forewing ochreous whitish almost entirely suffused and 

 irrorated with dark purplish-brown; subbasal line represented by double 

 blackish striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, blackish, 

 interrupted, with black line before it from submedian fold to inner margin ; 

 orbicular a small indistinct whitish spot; reniform . indistinctly defined by, 

 whitish,- narrow and with white points beyond its lower extremity; a 

 diffused oblique waved blackish line from beyond lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin; postmedial line blackish with white striga at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique, to vein 4, then inwardly 

 oblique, some white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line strong, 

 white, and dentate from "costa to vein 6, oblique and yellowish to vein 4, 

 then blackish, waved, with small whitish spot beyond it below vein 3; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner side by some white 

 scales ; a fine yellowish line at base of cilia. Hindwing with the basal half 

 yellowish white, the terminal half purple-brown ; cilia chequered yellowish 

 white and brown ; the underside white irrorated with purplish brown except 

 on basal half of inner area, a black discoidal spot, diffused purple-brown 

 medial band, black postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 crenulate, incurved and obsolescent below vein 3, a terminal series of black 

 spots from apex to vein 5. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis ; Ceylon, Kandy ; Perak; Java. Exp. 28-30 

 mill. 



Genus Pachylepis. 



Type. 



Paclujlepis, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 7 (1874) non, descr.; Hmpsn. 



Moths. Ind. ii., p. 337 . . . . , . . . dilectissima. 



2109. Pachylepis dilectissima. 



Genus Xantholepis. 



Type. 

 Xantholepis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix, p. 513 (1910) . .dioycla. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, 

 hollowed out on inner side and reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate 





