576 NOCTTJID^. 



5855. Eustrotia viscotti. 



Erastria wiskotti, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 266 (1888) ; id. Eom. M6m. 

 Ti. p. 663, pi. 11. f. 4 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 230. 



5 . Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with rufous ; palpi 

 and frons with some black scales ; antennae ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing violaceous white suffused with 

 rufous ; subbasal line represented by a slight rufous striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line double, rufous filled in with violaceous 

 white, erect, waved ; claviform defined at extremity by white and 

 blackish scales ; orbicular and reniform with violaceous white 

 annuli very incompletely defined by black, the former small, round, 

 the latter bar-shaped ; a slight white streak on extremity of median 

 nervure ; medial line rufous, oblique to the reniform, oblique and 

 sinuous from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with white and defined by violaceous 

 white on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 6, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 whitish, very slightly excurved below vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules defined on inner 

 side by a waved white line. Hind wing white, very slightly tinged 

 with rufous ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with rufous. 



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5856. Eustrotia albifissa. (Plate CLXV. fig. 27.) 

 Hijda albifissa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 393 (1902). 



(5 . Head and thorax ochi'eous white mixed with reddish crimson, 

 the patagia with the scales pencilled with purple-brown towards 

 tips; abdomen ochreous irrorated with black-brown. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with ochreous and flesh-pink, the costal area to 

 beyond middle redder with dark purplish streaks on the veins ; a 

 white streak on median nervure and veins 4, 5 to postmedial line, 

 with a deeper red wedge-shaped patch between it and vein 2 ; the 

 basal area below the cell white irrorated with pink, its outer edge 

 very oblique and defined by black scales ; claviform elongate, rufous 

 with a slight whitish streak in middle, some purplish beyond it on 

 base of vein 2 ; orbicular represented by a rufous point in lower 

 part of cell, the reniform by two black points ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double filled in with silvery white, very strongly bent 

 outwards below costa to near subterminal line, where it is met by 

 an oblique i)lack shade from apex, then oblique ; terminal area white 

 tinged with pink and very finely striated with fuscous, the sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, oblique, white ; a terminal rufous 

 line ; cilia white tipped with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous ; cilia 



