168 NocTuiDJi;. 



5243. EiiWemiiia radia. (Plate CLIII. fig. 25.) 

 Euhlemma radda, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 472 ( 1 901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish red mixed some Avhitish. 

 Pore Aving whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish red; traces of a sinuous rufous anteniedial line; a 

 dark point in middle of cell and small brownish discoidal spot; 

 medial line indistinct, rufous, oblique from below costa to vein (> 

 far bej'ond the cell, then minutely waved and inwardly oblique ; 

 ])ostmedial line excurved below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 slight dark points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtenninal line whitisli, very indistinct, 

 waved ; a fine brownish terminal line. Hind wing whitish almost 

 entirely suffused and irrorated with pui'plish red ; a dark discoidal 

 striga ; an indistinct double oblique diffused rufous medial line ; 

 traces of a dentate postraedial line and of a waved whitish 

 subterrainal line ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with rufous, a minute blackish discoidal lunule and 

 traces of two curved rufous postmedial lines. 



JIah. BoRjiTEO, Sarawak, 1 d' , 1 $ type, Kuching {Shelford), 

 1 2 • Eccj). 24 millim. 



5244. Eublemma ahrupta. 



Mcsthta cthrupia, Wlk. xxxiii. 830 (18li.5); Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii. p. 208, 



pi. 174, ft'. 2, 2rt ; Jliiipsn. Motlis ln(\. ii. p. o42. 

 Thalpuchares wailengrcni, Siiell. Tijd. v. Eiit. xxiii. )>. 64, pi, v. 1'. 6 



(1880). 

 Eublemma lurida, Pag. Zoulogica, xii, p. 84, pi. ii. f. 43 (1900). 



Head and teguloe rufous ; thornx ochreous white tinged with 

 rufouo ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown at base and 

 with fuscous towards extremity ; tarsi red-brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated 

 Avith fuscous ; a minute subbnsal black point in cell; antemedial 

 line indistinct, blackish, minutely dentate towards costa and 

 angled outAvards beloAV the cell ; a black point in middle of cell 

 and slight discoidal lunule; medial line dark brown, very acutely 

 angled outAvards below costa to near postmedial line where it is 

 met by an oblique black shade from apex, then very oblique and 

 double, the outer line blackish ; postmedial line fine, black, strongly 

 excurved below costa, then oblique and dentate ; an ochreous 

 spot below costa towards apex with a small triangular spot on 

 costa beyond it ; a minute dentate subterminal Avhite mark beloAV 

 apex, then a series of black points Avith an oblique streak from 

 the point in submedian fold to tornus ; a fine red-brown terminfil 

 line ; cilia red-brown except at base. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous; a double oblique medial line, the inner line 

 red-brown, the outer fuscous ; postmedial line blackishj dentate 

 and |)roduced to black ])oints on the veins, excurved at middle'; 

 a subterminal scries of slight black points and a blackish patch 



