490 NOCTUlDiE. 



antemedial line indistinct, blackish defined by ochreous on inner 

 side, curved ; orbicular minute, round, rufous defined by black ; 

 reniform small, elliptical, with rufous centre and greyish annulua 

 defined by black ; iwstmedial line double, filled in with grey to 

 discal fold where it is interrupted by a black spot, then filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



Pig. 145. — Rhyncliodia meso'phcBa, (^ . ]. 



obliquely incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a faint oblique pale striga from costa ; a ter- 

 minal series of black points ; cilia with dark line at middle and 

 blackish tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area paler ; 

 a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia rufous with a dark line 

 at middle. Underside of fore wing clothed with black androconia 

 to submedian fold and beyond middle ; hind wing ochreous white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, sinuous punctiform 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of black points. 



Bab. Teavancoee, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 d" , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus ERASTROIDES. 



Type. 

 Erastroicles, Hrapsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 98 (1893) oliviaria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint, reaching 

 about to vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes lai-ge, round ; anteunse of male somewhat laminate and minutely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the jDrothorax without crest, 

 the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with speading crest ; tibifle 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen rather oblique towards tornus and not 

 creuLilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 fVom cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed friim below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the tei-taen excurved at middle and excised below apex 

 and towards tornus ; hind tibi£e with large tuft of scales at middle 

 above. 



5738. Erastroides emarginata, n. sp. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown ; 

 pectus white, the tarsi pure white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 rufous, the antemedial area and a postmedial patch on costa whitish, 



