- ERCHEIA. 493 



faint blackish points just before termen. Hind wing fuscoi^s brown ; 

 a diffused oblique whifish medial bar l^ctween veins 5 and 2 and 

 small spot at vein 1 ; cilia chequered with whitish betw'een veins 7 

 and 4. Underside with the basal half white, the terminal half 

 fuscous brown ; fore wing with the basal costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a dark fascia below the cell, an oblique dark medial band 

 followed bj' a white band ; hind wing with black discoidal point, 

 oblique sinuous medial line, and faint oblique whitish subterminal 

 mark between veins 3 and 2. 



l^ah. Andamans, 1 c5' type. Exp. 44 millim. 



*7618. Ercheia styx. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 5.) 



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



(S . Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with black and 

 soiue grey ; palpi wath pale bands ; shoulders and outer edge of 

 tegulfe with whitish stripe ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 brown : abdomen greyish fuscous, the basal crest rufous, the ventral 

 surface ochreous white. Fore wing greyish suffused with red- 

 brpwn and slightly irrorated with black, a somewhat paler fascia 

 from base through the cell to termen ; a white point at base ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black point below costa ; the ante- 

 medial area with slight blackish streaks in submedian fold and 

 below vein 1 ; antemedial line represented by two oblique black 

 stria? from costa, two black points in cell, and two stripe on inner 

 area, a short black streak beyond it in cell ; traces of a small 

 elliptical reuiform faintly defined by brown and with two whitish 

 points on its outer edge; the medial area with small black-defined 

 diamond-shaped mark in submedian fold followed by a short white 

 streak and with oblique dark bar to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 slight, dark, and somewhat dentate, oblique from costa to vein 4, 

 then inwardly oblique to submedian fold, then more distinct, 

 waved and angled inwards on vein 1, some blackish points beyond 

 it to vein 4, then a waved line diffused on inner side ; subterminal 

 line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side, somewhat 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique and slightly excurved at vein 1 ; 

 the terminal area with slight dark streaks in the interspaces and 

 whitish spot below vein 4 ; a fine waved black terminal line. 

 Hind wing greyish fuscous with whitish spot beyond lower angle 

 of cell ; cilia white, fuscous at middle and apex. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous with whitish postmedial band expanding towards 

 costa, the base and apex pale, a slight waved whitish subterminal 

 line from costa to vein 5; hind wing witii the base ochreous white 

 followed by a diffused oblique blackish line, then a white band, the 

 terminal area fuscous. 



Hah. Br. N. GtrmEA, Ekeikei {Pratt), type t in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Kvp. 46 millim. 



