ECCRITA. 



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A. Fore wing witli tbe subterminal line incurved at cliscal fold... hulicra. 



B. Fore wing with tbe subterminal line not incurved at discal 



fold maxima. 



7359. Eccrita ludicra. 



Nochia hulicra, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 4. p. 95, pi. 3. f. E (1789); id. Eur. 



Scbmett., Noct. f. 319 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 128, pi. 5fi. f. 2 ; Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 483. f. 3; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 241; Friv. 



Tudom. Akad. Erkon. Kot. xi. Darab iv. 1865, p. 168, pi. 8. f.4 ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 251. 

 Eccrita cervina, Stand. Iris, v. p. 372 (1892). 

 Eccrita gracilis, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 270 (1896). 



Head and thorax gvey tinged with brown and irrorated witli 

 dark brown, the vertex of head and tegulte deep chocolate-brown, 

 some white between antennae; palpi and mid and hind legs suffused 



Fig. 24. — Eccrita hulicra, c5". \. 



with brown; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey striated with red-brown, 

 the costa and terminal area suffused with red-brown ; traces of a 

 pale curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line pale defined on outer side by red-brown, forming a small spot 

 below the cell, curved, obsolescent towards inner margin ; a red- 

 brown bar from middle of costa ; reniform red-brown defined on 

 inner side by a black bar above and triangular spot below, on outer 

 b^' a black point above two small spots at lower extremity and a 

 slight streak below ; a strongly incurved line from cell to vein 1 

 with some red-brown suffusion beyond it ; postmedial lino very 

 slight, sinuous, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ; a patch of red- 

 brown suffusion on costal area before the subterminal line, which is 

 dark to vein 6, then very slight, pale and excurved ; a series of 

 minute brown spots before termen ; cilia whitish at base. Hind 

 wnng whitish tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused 



