566 NOCTTTID^. 



Genus EUSTROTIA. 



Type, 



Eustrotia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 253 (1827) uncula. 



Hydrelia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 227 (1841) oUvana. 



Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B. M. p. 149 (1850), iion descr. ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307 uncula. 



Ba7ikia, Gruen. Noct. ii. p. 231 (1852) olivana. 



Micardia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 81 (1878) argentata. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short : frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male typically somewhat laminate and minutely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without 

 crest, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest ; tibia smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veius 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 shortly 

 stalked or from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches to apex. 



5849. Eustrotia melanchlaena. 



Tarache vnelanchlcena, Swiuh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 148; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 318. 



Head and thorax dark grey-brown ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing dark grey-brown ; an antemedial whitish 

 band tinged with rufous and bounded by the double antemedial 



Fig. 158. — Eustrotia melanchlcBiia, (^ . |. 



line filled in wiih grey and slightly sinuous ; orbicular faint, pale, 

 round ; the reniform a slight pale lunule ; an indistinct curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa and angled inwards at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4, a whitish band beyond it ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 

 greyish brown ; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Much redder and without the greyish tinge. — Belgaum. 



Hah. Punjab, Jubbulpur, 1 S ; Bombax, Canara {Wise), 2 J 

 type ; Madeas, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 J , 4 $ . JSxp. 16-22 millim. 



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