EUSTROXIA. 579 



5860. Eustrotia diascia, n. sp. (Plate CLXV. fig. 29.) 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fulvous yellow slightly irro- 

 rated with brown, the ventral surface suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing yellow tinged with brown except the basal inner area 

 and the costa towards apex ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 waved; claviform with blackish spot in middle and slightly defined 

 by brown at extremity, extending to cell ; orbicular defined by 

 brown and .with dark point in centre, round; reniform very 

 indistinctly defined by brown, constricted at middle and with 

 dark points in upper and lower parts ; postmedial line double, 

 obsolescent on costal area, filled in with white and with some whitish 

 beyond it on inner area, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 6, then inwardly oblique and minutely dentate, met at vein 6 

 by an oblique dark shade from apex ; subtorminal line very in- 

 distinct, excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing nearly 

 uniformly sutfused with brown, the cilia with a fine whitish line at 

 base ; the underside ochreous white thickly irrorated with fuscous, 

 a black discoidal spot, rather diffused postmedial line, and fine 

 terminal line. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu {Graioshay), 1 c? , 1 § type. Ex^, 

 22 millim. 



5861. Eustrotia obliqua. 



Bankia obliqua, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 143 (1882); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 

 p. 63, pi. 129. f. 7 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307. 



Head and thorax white mixed with rufous ; palpi dark brown, 

 except at tips ; antennae dark brown ; tegulse with rufous band ; 

 tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white mixed 

 with dark brown. Fore wing with the basal area white irrorated 

 with rufous and bounded by an inwardly oblique pure white line 

 defined on outer side by a very minutely waved black line ; the- 

 rest of wing deep chocolate-red with a narrow oblique pure white 

 band from costa just beyond middle to tornus, some alight white 

 points beyond it on costa ; cilia blackish. Hind wing whitish 

 suflused with reddish brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; ciliai 

 whitish with a slight dark line through them ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with red and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Kashmib : Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 (^ , 1 $ , Dharms^a 

 (Hocking), 1 c? type, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), 2 J ; Ceylon, 

 (Maclwood, Pole), 1^,25; Burma, Bernardmj-o. Exp. 20- 

 22 millim. 



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