494 N0CTTJID,?5. 



7619. Ercheia uml)rosa. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 6.) 



Erchcia unibrosa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 194. 

 Ercheia strigipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 165 (18S2) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 452. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with dark brown, the 

 t.egulae with two dark brown stripes ; palpi with some grey at base 

 and extremity of 2nd joint, the 3rd joint banded grey and fuscous ; 

 pectus brownish white ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the basal crest red-brown, the ventral surface brown- 

 ish white. Fore wing fuscous brown, the inner area to above 

 vein 1 and the terminal area to above vein 3 red-brown ; minute 

 subbasal black spots below costa and median nervure ; anteraedial 

 line indistinct, black, angled outwards below costa., incurved and 

 waved to vein 1, then excurved ; a black point defined by some 

 rufous scales in middle of cell ; reniform very faintly indicated by 

 some rufous scales and with white points at its upper and lower 

 extremities ; postmedial line black, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, 

 then waved, excurved to below vein 3, then incurved and angled 

 inwards at vein 1, black bars beyond it above vein 2 and in 

 submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish, almost obsolete except 

 towards costa and below vein 3, with a black streak beyond it 

 above vein 8, crossed by a black streak below vein 8 and with 

 black streak before it extending to near postmedial line above 

 vein 6, below vein 3 waved, with a black mark beyond it above 

 vein 2 and black marks before and beyond it in submedian inter- 

 space ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia intersected by pale 

 streaks below apex and vein 4 and pale at tornus. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; an indistinct sinuous dark postmedial line faintl}^ 

 defined on outer side by whitish; cilia chequered with whitish to 

 vein 4, then with fine pale line at base and whitish tips towards 

 tornus. Underside whitish tinged with brown ; fore wing with 

 oblique fuscous band followed by a whitish band narrowing to 

 inner margin, the terminal area fuscous with traces of a pale waved 

 subterminal line, and with terminal pale patches at apex, between 

 veins 4 and 3, and at tormis ; hind wing with blackish discoidal 

 spot, medial line waved and excurved to vein 5, then bent inwards 

 to lower angle of cell and oblique to inner margin near tornus, 

 a broad postmedial band, narrow subterminal band, and waved 

 terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas not 

 red-brown, the terminal half with slight pale streaks in the 

 interspaces. 



Ab. 2. Similar, but fore wing greyer brown with a diffused 

 black fascia in submedian interspace and short white streak in 

 submedian fold before the postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with prominent ochreous white and reddish 

 brown streaks in the interspaces, some white suffusion on inner 



