ERCT^EIA. 



483 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen oblique below vein 4, the inner margin 

 strongly lobecl at middle, then excised. 



7609. Ercheia cebea. 



Ercheia Jcebea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 249 (1906). 



(S . Head red-brown ; thornx ochreous slightly mixed with 

 brown, the tegulse with black medial fascia with some red-browu 

 on each side of it ; fore tibiae with black streak on inner side and 

 point above ; abdomen fuscous brown with large rufous crest at 

 base, the ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; the base of inner area ochreous with a 

 whitish streak above and followed by some black and grey irrora- 

 tion, the scale-tooth fuscous ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; 

 a black and white point at upper angle of cell ; a slight fuscous 

 medial spot in subraedian fold ; faint traces of a postmedial line 



Fig. Wh.— Ercheia ceJiea, S . \. 



excurved from costa to vein 2, then retraced and with obscure 

 spots in submedian fold and on inner margin ; some black suffusion 

 on costal area towards apex with ochreous irroration on it ; traces 

 of a curved subterminal line with blackish spot in submedian fold ; 

 minute black points on the veins just before termen. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, darker towards termen ; an oblique ochreous white 

 postmedial band between discal and submedian folds ; cilia white 

 above and below middle. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the 

 costa ochreous with some dark striation, the cell greyish, an 

 oblique whitish postmedial band, the apical area greyish ; hind 

 wing with the basal half ochreous white with fuscous discoidal 

 lunule and obliquely curved medial band, the terminal half fuscous 

 with some whitish on termen and cilia above and below middle. 

 2 , Fore wing grey-bi'own with a purplish tinge, a black streak 



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