EECIIEIA. 485 



traces of a sinuous brown line from it to inner margin ; traces of a 

 punctiform dark postmedial line with a slight red-brown shade 

 beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; a small dark brown apical spot, 

 followed by some dark points before termen, and a rather difi'used 

 dark line from vein 4 to inner margin. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the costal area creamy white to beyond middle ; an indistinct 

 oblique sinuous dark postmedial line from belov»^ cos-fa to inner 

 margin, followed b}- a creamy white band interrupted at submedian 

 fold and ending at vein 1 ; a small white subterminal spot between 

 veins 3 and 2 ; cilia white towards apex and in submedian inter- 

 space. Underside pale ochreous ; fore wing with oblique brown 

 postmedial line, an oblique subterminal shade arising at vein 7, 

 diffused to termen below vein 4 and ending at vein 2, a series of 

 black points before termen ; hind wing with oblique postmedial 

 line arising at vein 6 and incurved beyond lower angle of cell, the 

 subterminal area irrorated with brown from apex to vein 3, then 

 with oblique blackish band to termen at vein 1, a series of black 

 points before termen. 



2 . Fore wing with dark streaks on the veins, two dark brown 

 fasciae in basal half of submedian interspace and a reddish brown 

 fascia below vein 1, two dark brown fasciae in end of cell, the 

 reniform with dark brown centre and ochreous annulus, narrow, 

 the terminal area with dark and red-brown streaks in the inter- 

 spaces, the streaks towards apex darker and shortening to apex, a 

 red-brown fascia extending to lower part of reniform, a dark 

 streak above vein 2 extending to below end of cell and an ochreous 

 white streak in submedian fold before a dark postmedial bar ; 

 underside of both wings with small dark discoidal spots. 



Ilab. Perak, Goping (Kunstler), 1 J , 2 $ , type and type 

 ahnonnis; Salanga I. {Midler), 1 cj" ; N. Guinea. E^vp., S 56, 

 5 66 millim. 



7611. Er chela diversipennis. 



Ercheia diversipennis, Wlk. xiii. 1 108 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Cej-I. iii. p. 116, 



pi. 157. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 451. 

 Melipoiis amhidens, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 116. f. 9 (1874). 

 Ercheia zygia, Svviiih. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 465 ; Waterh. Aid, ii. pi. 177. f. 3. 

 Ercheia zilra, Swinb. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 405 ; Waterh. Aid, ii. pi. 177. f. 4. 



o' - Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with dark brown, 

 Ihe tegular and upper edge of patagia with dark brown fasciae ; 

 palpi with some black at sides; frons black at sides; abdomen 

 pale grey-brown, the basal crest reddish ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen ochreous white, the legs tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown, the veins slightly streaked with 

 blackish ; a black streak in base of submedian fold, forking 

 slightly before extremity ; a diffused blackish fascia above inner 

 margin from near base to middle : an oblique dark subbasal striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line slight, dark, angled outwards below 

 costa, then incurved, and excurved below submedian fold ; a 

 minate black point in middle of cell; reniform with hardly 



