EECHEIA. 489 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with white patch beyond the cell befove the 

 postmedial line connected by an obhque bar with the costa, 

 5 . Fore wing with the inner area pinkisli brown. 



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7614. Ercheia cyllaria. 



Noclua cyllaria, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 100, pi. 251. if. C, D (1782); 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 115, pi. 157. f. 3; Hmp^u. Mothi^ Ind. ii. 

 p. 451 ; id. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 110, pi. 165. f. 20. 



Achcea cylloia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 248 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 115, pi. 157. f. 2. 

 Achceajusijera, Wlk. xiy. 1398 (1858). 

 Achaa'suinwiita, Wlk. xiv. 1898 (1858). 

 Achcsa polychroma, Wlk. xiv. 1400 (1858). 



Aohcea atriviila, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 181 (1864). 

 Achcea pui-pxireilinea, Wlk. Joxirn. Linn. Soc, Zoo), yii. p. 181 (1864). 

 Achcea semipallida, -Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 181 (1864). 

 Ercheia tenebrosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 66. 

 Melipotis gundiana, Fold. Reis. Nov. pi. 116. f. 10 (1874). 

 Melipotis costipannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 166, pi. 5. f. 8 (1882). 

 Ercheia pannom, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 24. 

 Ercheia uniformis, Moore, P. Z.S. 1883, p. 24. 

 Melipoiis coUustrans, Lucas, P. Linii. Soc. N. S. W. (2) viii. p. 146 (1894). 



(5 . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some reddish 

 brown and grey ; abdomen fuscous brown with slight pale 

 segmental lines ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, 

 the- legs sufiused with brown, the tarsi blackish with ])ale rings. 

 Fore wing reddish brown suffused with fuscous brown and slightly 

 irrorated with black ; an oblique black subbasal striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line slight, black, angled outwards below costa, then 

 incurved, and excurved below submedian fold ; renif'orni very 

 faintly defined by black scales and white points above and below ; 

 traces of a medial black line excurved beyond the cell, then oblique 

 and waved ; postmedial line indistinctl}- double, black, oblique and 

 sinuous to vein 6, faint and excurved to vein 3, then inwardly 

 oblique and waved, black streaks beyond it above and below 

 vein 7 ; small subterminal black spots above and below vein 8, 

 then traces of a pale waved line with slight blackish points at the 

 interspaces ; a slight crenulatc black terminal line. Hind wing 

 black-brown ; postmedial white spots beyond lower engle of cell 

 and above vein 1 and a subterminal spot between veins 3 and 2 ; 

 the termen and cilia white between veins 7 and 4 and in submedian 

 interspace. Underside of both wings white tinged with brown, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with blackish ; fore wing 

 with oblique blackish postmedial band narrowing to costa and 

 inner margin, a broad subterminal band from below costa to 

 submedian fold, and series of points before termen ; hind wing 

 with black discoidal spot, strong postmedial line excurved and 

 waved to discal fold, then sinuous, and oblique band from vein 3 

 to toruus. 



