ERASTI50IDES. T.ITHiCODIA. 497 



FTah. Bombay, Kanara, Anshi (Bell), 1 d ; Madras, Belgaum 

 ( Watson), 1 d" , 1 $ , Nilgiris (ffampson), 1 cJ type ; Burma, 

 Thayetmyo (Watson), 1 $ . Ea-p. 20-26 millim. 



5747. Erastroides propera. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 28.) 



Eustrotia proper a, Grote, Papilio, ii. pp. 132, 184 (1882); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 311. 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with grey ; pectus 

 and hind legs paler ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white suffused with brown. Fore wing dark brown slightly 

 tinged with grey to postmedial line and on costal area to subterminal 

 line, the terminal area ochreous white tinged with rufous ; ante- 

 medial line very indistinct, blackish defined on inner side by 

 ochreous, oblique from costa to middle of cell, then minutely waved ; 

 claviform defined by ochreous and black at extremity ; orbicular 

 an ochreous point defined by diffused black and with oblique black 

 striga above it from costa ; reniform with brown centre and white 

 annulus defined by black, oblique ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with white, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly sinuous, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitisb, 

 defined on inner side towards costa by the dark area and at middle 

 by rufous suffusion, minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous black. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; a 

 terminal series of black strise ; cilia whitish with a fine dark line 

 near base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal point and curved minutely crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co!, 1 J , 1 $ • Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus LITHACODIA. 



Type. 



LHhacodm, Hiibn . Verz. p. 205 ( 1827) hellicula. 



Maliattha, Wlk. xxvii. 86 (1863) separata. 



Motania, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110 (1882) cidarioides. 



Anchiroe, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 350 (1891) flavofimbria. 



Hyelopsis, Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 304 (1894) vialis. 



Proboscis fully cleyeloped ; palpi upturned the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and broadly fringed witli scales in front, the 3rd moderate; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennje of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibiiB moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on 3rd and 

 4th segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen rather 

 oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 typically from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully de- 

 veloped from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with tlie cell near base only. 



Larva with the prolegs on 7th somite absent, on 8th rudimentary. 



In some specimens of L.j'entoni the areole is slight or quite obsolete. 

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