ERCHEIA. 491 



bl-ackish, oblique and sinuous to below vein 7, then faint and 

 slightly waved, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, a wedge-shaped 

 black-brown patch beyond it on costal area extending to apex, 

 with some white points on costa ; subterminal line faint, pale, 

 curved and slightly waved ; a fine waved dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing with the basal area pale brown ; an oblique sinuous 

 fuscous medial line followed by a white band ; the terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; termen narrowly white towards apex ; cilia white, 

 brown at middle. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 Avhite, the terminal half brown, an oblique white postmedial band 

 narrowing on inner area, its outer edge excurved below costa, 

 some white suffusion on terminal area except towards tornus, and 

 a series of blackish points before termen ; hind wing white, a 

 slight dark discoidal spot, narrow oblique sinuous medial band, the 

 terminal area brown with faint slightly waved whitish subterminal 

 line, some white on termen towards apex and below vein 2, and a 

 series of dark points before termen. 



Hah. Celebes {Wallace), type t $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



7616. Ercheia dubia. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 3.) 



Ckdephia ditbia, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 292 (1874) ; Semper, Eeis. Phil., 



Sohiiiett. ii. p. 540, pi. 60. f. 13. 

 Ercheia charon, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 678. 

 Ercheia certa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 248 (1906). 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; antenme 

 blackish; j^alpi with dark bands near base and extremities of 2nd 

 and 3rd joints : pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with brown, 

 the tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen fuscous, the base red- 

 brown, slight whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface ochreous 

 Avhite with sub ventral series of blackish spots except towards base. 

 Fore wing grey-brown or red-brown ; the basal area black-brown 

 to the submedian fold ; a black subbasal line slightly defined on 

 outer side by ochreous from costa to submedian fold, angled out- 

 wards below costa ; autemedial line black with ochreous striga at 

 costa, angled outwards below costa, incurved at vein 1, then 

 excurved ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform very faintly 

 defined by brown, constricted at middle, its lower part with white 

 points on inner and outer sides ; a slight waved black medial line 

 arising at vein 5 well beyond the cell, oblique to a small black 

 annulus at middle of submedian fold, then erect ; postmedial line 

 black, indistinctly double except between veins 6 and 5, slightly 

 defined on each side by white towards costa and inner margin, 

 oblique and sinuous to vein 6, excurved to vein 3, then oblique 

 and waved below submedian fold ; a semi-circular dark brown 

 patch on jDostmedial part of costa with some pale points on 

 costa and diffused black streaks above and below vein 7 ; sub- 

 terminal line slight, pale, bluish white on costal area, with two 

 small blackish spots on its outer side below costa, then faintly 



