EUTELIA. 21 



6218. Eutelia plusioides. 



Sleale pIusioides,W[k. Journ.L'mn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 135 (1862); Swinli, 

 Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. So, pi. ii. L 2\. 



J. Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous, sides of pa]\n 

 and frons, antennae, and tegulse rufous, the last with fuscous scales 

 at tips; abdomen yellow suffused with rufous. Fore wing j-ellow, 

 the basal area, the costal area to beyond middle and the inner half 

 of terminal area suffused with rufous ; a diffused black streak iu 

 basal half of cell ; the antemedial line arising from a white spot 

 on. costa, e.xcurved to median nervure, then oblique ; slight white 

 streaks above and below subcostal nervure towards etid of cell, 

 with a small white spot on costa above end of cell and two 

 points on discocellulars ; postmedial line indistinct and excurved 

 to vein 4, then obliijue and angled outwards on voiu 1, another 



Eutelia plusioides, c? • 



line bejoud it, brown an 1 strongly excurved from costa to veiu 4, 

 then white and incurved, with another white line beyond it from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; a dark streak in discal fold from cell to near 

 termen and an oblique wedge-shaped mark from lower angle of 

 cell to termen at vein 4 ; a curved brown line close to termen from 

 costa to vein 3, then an incurved white line to tornus, the area 

 beyond it dark ; the apex grey with a white line between it and the 

 subterminal line. Hind wing pale yellow, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with rufous ; some fiery red near extremity of vein 2 

 crossed by an oblique white striga to termen at submedian fold ; 

 the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hdh. Borneo, SaraM-ak {Wallace), type f c? i" Mus. Oxon.; 

 D'ExTKFXASTEAUX Is., Fergusson 1. [MeeJc], 1 c5" • Exp. 30 millim. 



d. {Peniciliaria). Fore wing with the termen slightly 



sinuous from apex to vein 3. 



ci^. Fore wing with inverted lunulate subterminal white 



mark filled in with dark brown below ttie angle of 



postmedial line. 



a". Fore wing with the antemedial band from cell to 



inner margin chocolate-brown ahsconacns. 



b^. Fure wing with the antemedial band from cell to 



inner margin deep red pulcherrima.. 



h^. Fore wing without inverted lunulate subterminal 

 white mark. 

 0'. Fore wing without small subterminal triangular 

 blackish spots defined bj white between veins 6 

 aiid 3. 



