498 NOCTTJIDiE. 



basal spot with crimsou striga on it at inner margin ; small 

 obliquely placed red-brown spots on lower discocellular, and in and 

 below lower end of cell ; cilia white, crimson at apex and brownish 

 at tornus. Hind wing pure white. 



¥ig. 188. — Tt/ana chloroleuca, (^ . \. 



Ab. 1. lanclna. Fore wing without the brown spots at lower end 

 of cell. 



Ab, 2. specidatrLv. Fore wing with white spots defined by 

 brown on lower discocellular and below the cell with a brown spot 

 between them. 



Hah. SiKuiM (Atlinso7i, Rassell, Lidderdah, Moller, PUclier), 

 7 cj' , 10 5 5 type and type specidatrLv; Bhutan (Lidderdcde), 1 $ 

 typo lancina. Ex^y. 34-38 millim. 



Genus EARIAS. 



Type. 



Earias, Hiibn. Verz. p. 395 (1827) chloniva. 



Aphusia, Wlk. xii. 709 (1857) fabia. 



Bigha, Wlk. Jourii. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 197 (1862) annidifera. 



Proboscis fnlly developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and typically moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short, 

 oblique; frons Bmootli, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; anlennju 

 of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and 

 witJiout crests ; tibiffi typically smoothly scaled ; abdomen with minute crests 

 on two basal segments. Fore wing with the. apex somewhat produced, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle 

 of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle ; retinaculum of male formed by 

 a tuft of hair from below median nervure. 



Sect. I. Palpi broadly scaled and with tuft of hair at exti-emity of 2nd joint 

 behind ; .mid femora of male much dilated and the tibiie fringed 

 with long hair on each side. 



A. Fore wing with traces of ante- and postmedial lines with 



series of dark points on them novoguineana. 



B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial lines. 



a. Fore wing of male with the renifbrm oblique elliptical, 



red-brown with whitish centre rufopunctata. 



b. Fore wing of male with the reuiform bar-shaped and 



constricted at middle, dark brown with scai-let 



centre uniplagci. 



