80 NOCTTJIB^. 



purplish brown. Fore wing creamy white irrorated with pale 

 purplish brown, the terminal area bright rufous except towards 

 toruus ; antemedial line white defined on inner side by rather 

 diffused brown, oblique ; medial line whitish defined on inner side 

 by diffused brown, rather oblique and slightly excurved below costa 

 and cell; postmedial line white, defined on inner side by brown 

 suffusion which crosses to the outer side below costa, bent outwards 



Fig. 37. — Eiiblemma quadrilineata, ^. |. 



below costa, then oblique ; subterminul line very indistinct, whitish 

 defined on outer side by minute black points, excurved at middle 

 and incurved above and below middle ; cilia brownish with a fine 

 white line at base. Hind wing ochreous white ; a faint brownish 

 I)ostmedial line from discal fold to inner margin ; the terminal area 

 tinged with rufous ; a slight brown terminal line ; the underside 

 white with faint traces of a curved postmedial line, the apical area 

 tinged with red and slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Lake Nyasa (de Jersey), 1 $ ; Persian Gulf, 

 Eao (Cuminr/), 1 cj" , 1 $; Punjab, Oudh, 1 j; JBengal, Calcutta; 

 SiND, Karachi {Swinhoe), 1 $ ; New Hebrides (Mathew), 1 $ . 

 Kvjy. 18-22 millim. 



5096. Eublemma baccalix. 



Mestleta haccalix, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 452, pi. 40. f. 7 ; Hmpsn, 



Moths lud. ii. p. 343. 

 Mestleta fasciosa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl, iii. p. 552, pi. 214. f. 12 (1887). 



J . Head and tegulse white mixed with pale red-brown ; thorax 

 pale red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; abdomen white 

 suffused with red-brown ; pectus white. Pore wing pale purplish 

 brown mixed with rufous and white, the subcostal area whiter from 

 near base to near apex with some blackish irroration in the fovea ; 

 antemedial and medial lines whitish, oblique ; postmedial line 

 whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 slight, whitish, excurved and with bright rufous suffusion before it 

 at middle ; the apex bright rufous ; cilia with a fine whitish line 

 at base. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area slightly 

 tinged with rufous ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia white tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area 

 to vein 2 irrorated wifh red-brown, a slight discoidal spot, traces of 

 a diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 3, and terminal series 

 of points. 



