BRcnEiA. 487 



ab?ent, a black spot ou outer edge of the postmedial liue in sub- 

 mediun fold. 



Ab. 3. 5 • Tore wing with the basal area sufFused with red- 

 brown and black to the submediaa fold, a similar pstcli on costal 

 area between the postmedial and subterminal lines, and a small 

 patch on termen between vein 3 and subraedian fold, the streaks 

 on inner area absent, a small elliptical brown spot edged with 

 black below middle of submedian fold with a small round spot 

 above the fold. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (6r. Young), 1 § , Allahabad, 

 1 d", Jubbulpur i^F. Butler), 1 5; Bengal; Bombay {Sivinhoe), 

 ] c? type zuru. Poena (Sivinhoe), 1 2 type zygia, Mhow (Forsai/eth), 

 16, 1 $ , Kanara ( Ward), 1 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris {Ucnvpson), 

 1 (^ , 1 $ ; Thavawcore, Pirmjid {Mrs. Imray), 1 $ ; Ceylon, 1 $ 

 typo. Exp. 42-58 millim. 



Larva. Forsayetb, Trans, Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 412. 



Pale grey' ; ventral surface deep pink. Eood-plant : grass ; 

 cocoon in a doubled-up leaf with a piece of grass attached. 



*7612. Ercheia eceicei. (Plate CCXVI. fig. 17.) 

 Erchcia ekeiJcei, BeLh.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 248 (1906). 



c5' . Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with grey ; 

 palpi with the 1st joint yellowish white, the 2nd joint whitish in 

 front, the 3rd whitish ringed with fuscous ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown sufFused with grey, the ventral surface yellowish white. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with rufous and with purplish 

 white on terminal half and slightly irrorated with black, the inner 

 area to just above vein 1 fuscous suffused with purplish white ; a 

 black point at base defined by white ; a curved red-brown subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; autemedial line bi'own, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular repi'esented by a black point ; reniform oblique, elliptical, 

 whitish with white annul'us ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1, crossed by a rufous fascia in 

 submedian interspace with pale yellow streak on it before the line 

 and another slight streak above its extremity ; subterminal line 

 white from costa to vein 5, then slight, purplish grey, curved and 

 very slightly waved ; a small black spot at apex, black points just 

 before termen to vein 5, then a slight waved line ; cilia pale 

 rufous towards apex, then fuscous with a slight pale hue at base 

 and some whitish towards tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 basal and inner areas greyish ; postmedial w^hito spots beyond 

 lower angle of cell and above vein 1 and a subterminal spot above 

 vein 2; cilia white below apex and in submedian interspace. 

 Underside of fore wing ochreous white with oblique black post- 

 medial band from just below costa to inner margin near tornus, its 

 inner edge slightly indented at submedian fold, the terminal area 

 fuscous except the apical area which is irrorated with fuscous, 



