584 NocrrrjD.i^. 



and tliG postraedial area suffused with fuscous ; indistinct curved 

 dark subbasal and antemedial lines ; a faint dark discoidal annulus 

 and incurved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 4; a punctiforra blackish subterminal 



Fig. 229. — Gelasiocera e.xusta, J. j. 



line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia purple-red. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the term en and cilia 

 tinged with purple-red except towards tornus ; the underside whiter, 

 the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged with purplish. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate, 1 6 type, Yokohama (Andrewes), 1 d , 

 2 2 • J^^W- 28-34 millim. Type t c5' rubicundula in Coll. 

 Wileman. 



6993. Gelastocera castanea. 



Bearacastanea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 71, pi. 3. f. 9 (1879) ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 427. 



Head and thorax deep purplish chestnut ; antennae dark brown ; 

 pectus and legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi suffused with purple, 

 the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft 

 purplish, the ventral surface white. Fore wing deep purplish 

 chestnut with a silvery gloss ; traces of a diffused curved blackish 

 subbasal line and oblique slightly waved antemedial line ; an 

 indistinct blackish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 blackish, excurved below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; a 

 punctiform blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish 

 white; the termen and cilia tinged with purple from apex to vein 2 

 and with terminal series of dark striae ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with red, the terminal area suffused with red 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Jluh. SiKHiM (Atkinson, Muller), 6 J , 3 $ . E.v]?. 34-40 millim. 



6994. Gelastocera ochroleucana. 



Earias ochroleucana, Stand. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 176, pi. 8. f. 11 (1887); id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 362 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. pp. 282, 613. 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous ; antennae 

 brown ; pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the tarsi ringed 

 with brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Pore 

 wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the terminal half suffused with 



