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NOCTUID^. 



B. Palpi with the Srd joint much shorter than the 2nd. 



a. Mid and hind tibise of male fringed with verjr long hair on outer side ; 

 hind wing with fringe of long hair below the cell on underside. 



5851. Eustrotia metalopliota. 



JBarasa mefalophota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 452 (1898). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some brown, the tips of 

 tegulse rufous, the patagia with dark patches ; palpi and antennae 

 brown ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, the 

 basal crest tipped with black ; the underside black in male except 

 at extremity. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a diffused brown subbasal line ; a diffused black-brown patch on 

 antemedial costal area ; antemedial line black, angled outwards 

 below costa and strongly on median nervure, excurved at vein 1 ; 

 claviform defined by black and running obliquely downwards from 

 the angle of antemedial line ; reniform large, white defined by 

 black with some ochreous and a black discoidal striga in centre, 



Fig. 160. — Eustrotia metalofhota, S ■ \- 



an oblique black bar above it from costa ; postmedial line black, 

 bent outwards below costa, minutely dentate at veins 6, 4, 3, then 

 bent inwards to inner edge of reniform, and white strongly defined 

 on each side by black to inner margin, a sinuous brown line beyond 

 it from costa to vein 4 and some white points on the brown costa ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by black spots and 

 minute streaks, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 angled inwards at submedian fold, black streaks beyond it below 

 veins 7, 6, 5 ; a terminal series of small black spots defined by 

 white lunules ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing dark 

 brown, the cilia more ochreous ; the underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, the fringe of hair in male ochreous, a dark 

 discoidal spot, postmedial line excurved below costa, and subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 c? , 1 $ type, Exp, 24 millim. 



