ERIZADA. PXYOIs^OTA.. 579 



Sect. III. Antennae of male almost simple. 



6986. Erizadarufa. 



Erizacla rufa, Hmpsu. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 586 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus and legs whitish, fore 

 tibia) rufous, the tarsi banded with rufous ; abdomen whitish, 

 dorsally tinged with red except at base. Fore wing rufous, the 

 basal costal area brown : a brown patch on costa from middle to 

 near apes with a very oblique diffused rufous band from it to inner 



Fig. 22^:.— Erizacla rufa, cJ. \. 



margin ; cilia deep rnfons at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 pale red, the basal and costal areas slightly paler. Underside of 

 fore wing suffused with fiery red exce])t marginal areas. 

 Hah. SuLA ( WuUace), 1 S type. E.vjp. 22 millim. 



Genus PTYONOTA. 



lype. 

 Ptyonoia, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 424 (^1894) formoaa. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, llie 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and slenderly scaled, tlie 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes 

 large, round; antenna3 of female almost, simple; thorax clothed with scales 

 and hair mixed and without crests; tibire smoothly scaL^d ; abdomen with 

 large fan-shaped basal crest. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, 

 the termen strongly excised below apex and slightly excurved at middle and 

 vein 2; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 Ironi cell. Hind wing witli 

 veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 fully developed from angle of cell and closely 

 approximated to 3, 4 for some distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. - 



6987. Ptyonota formosa. 



Pfyunota formosa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 425 (1894). 



5 . Head and tegulse dark brown ; thorax white mixed with 

 purplish red ; abdomen purplish red, the basal crest silvery white, 

 the anal tuft white. Fore wing purplish red suffused with white 

 except on inner half of antemedial area and the outer half of medial 

 area ; a brown subbasal band from costa to median nervure ; ante- 

 medial line brown, sinuous, double and defined by white below .the 

 cell ; a rufous point in end of cell and small discoidal lunule 

 defined by rufous ; an incurved line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 



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