494 



NOCTTJIDJi;. 



5742. Erastroides oliviaria. 



Erastroides oliviaria, Hmpsn. III. Het. B. M. ix. p. 99, pi. 162. f. 23 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 303. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with blackish ; fore tibise and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous, the crests blackish at tips. 

 Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by double blackish strias from costa filled in with 

 ochreous ; antemedial line double filled in with ochreous, oblique, 

 minutely waved ; claviform slightly defined by blackish at extremity ; 

 orbicular slightly defined by blackish, round ; reniform with slight 

 whitish annulus faintly defined by blackish, elliptical ; medial line 

 represented by a dark bar from costa and faint oblique sinuous line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 



Fig. 147. — Erastroides oliviaria, c? . |. 



waved, excurved to vein 5, then oblique, some white points with 

 short black streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7, oblique betAveen veins 6 

 and 4, then obsolete ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly 

 defined by white on inner side ; cilia with a blackish line at 

 middle, the tips fuscous and white. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown, a terminal series of dark strise ; cilia with a dark line 

 at middle ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous and thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, curved, minutely 

 waved postmedial line, and terminal series of minute lunules. 



$ . Fore wing more rufous and less suffused with black except 

 on costal half of antemedial area, inner medial area, and before costal 

 part of subterminal line, a black patch in cell between orbicular and 

 reniform. 



Hah. Ceylon, 1 S , Pundaloya (G^r^m), 1 S , Dickoya (Green), 1 c? , 

 1 5 type, Maskeliya (Pole), 1 d . Krp. 24 millim. 



5743. Erastroides fausta. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 25.) 



Metachrostis fausta, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) si. p. 506 (1903). 



2 , Head and thorax ochreous yellow mixed with fuscous ; tarsi 

 banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the crests blackish. Fore wing ochreous 



