EriEijA. 39, 



6238. Eutelia gersea. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 31.) 



Eutelia gercea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 377 (1905j. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown suffused with 

 grey, the last with the dorsal crests small, dark. Pore wing 

 brownish grey with some dark irroration ; a dark point at base of 

 cell ; antemedial line oblique to subcostal nervure, hardly traceable 

 except at costa ; orbicular represented by a small spot; reniform 

 well-developed, rounded, rufous defined by blackish ; medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, minutely waved, excurved from below costa 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; a triangular chocolate patch defined by 

 grey on costa before apex, the subterminal line arising from it and 

 represented by small rufous dentate marks ; excurved at middle; a 

 terminal series of small chocolate lunules. Hind wing rufous, the 

 basal and costal areas paler ; the underside rufous, the inner area 

 whitish, a black discoidal lunule, and cui-ved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines showing through to upperside. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-white, the last with tho 

 markings much more distinct, some rufous suffusion between medial 

 and postmedial lines. 



Hub. MiuRiTius, Curepipe (TuUocJc), 1 J' , 1 $ type. Ex2). 26 

 millim. 



6239. Eutelia histrio. 



Penicillaria hisirio, Saahn. Lep. Madag. p. 386, f. 225 (1891). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with pale 

 brown ; palpi black at base ; tegulae with triangular dorsal blackish 

 patch; pectus blackish in front; tarsi blackish ringed with white; 

 abdomen with slight white segmental lines and the crests black. 

 Fore wing grey-white mixed with pale brown and sparsely irrorated 

 with black ; antemedial line with black spot at costa, then indistinct, 

 whitish, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular and reniform blackish with 

 white annuli, the former small, round, the latter oblique elliptical, 

 with an oblique black bar to it from costa ; postmedial line double, 

 blackish filled in with white, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved 

 and strongly dentate below vein 4 ; a triangular brown patch on 

 costal area with some white points on costa before the subterminal 

 line, which is pale defined by some blackish points, oblique to vein 7, 

 then Avaved ; a series of black points just before termen ; cilia 

 brown. Hind wing grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, 

 a sinuous postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish, sub- 

 terminal series of slight fuscous spots, a fine terminal black line ; the 

 underside tinged with rufous except the inner and terminal areas, a 

 black discoidal spot, crenulate postmedial line and subterminal spots 

 at discal fold and tornus. 



5 . Fore wing with rufous centres to orbicular and reniform. 

 Hab. iSTATAr,, Durban {Goooh, Leigh), 1 J , 1 5; Madagascar. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



