584 



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with a postmedial wkite patch on costa ; postmedial line almost 

 obsolete and bent outwards below costa on the white patch, then 

 double, black filled in with white and minutely waved to vein 4, then 

 slight and forming the inner edge of a white band which extends 

 to tornus ; a subterminal series of slight dentate white marks with 

 dentate black marks before them below costa and at middle ; cilia 

 whitish mixed with ochreous and with slight dark line through 

 them, black at apex and middle. Hind wing ochreous Avhite suffused 

 and irrorated with brown, especially on terminal area ; a fine dark 

 terminal line and line through the cilia ; the underside ochreous 

 white irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. W. China, Ta-chien4u (Pratt), 1 $ type. Eivj^. 24 millim. 



5869. Eustrotia amorpha. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 3.) 

 Acotitia amorpha, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 399. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with rufous ; 

 tarsi brown slightly ringed Avith white. Fore wing white slightly 

 tinged and irrorated with rufous, the basal part of costa rufous 

 with some dark scales, the medial area rufous met beyond the cell 

 by an oblique diffused rufous fascia from apex with some dark 

 scales on it, the terminal area suffused with rufous except towards 

 apex ; subbasal line represented hy a slight white striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line double filled in with white, the inner line 

 rufous, the outer black, erect, minutely waved ; reniform a faint 

 whitish lunule with two blackish points on it; postmedial line 

 double, rufous filled in with white, the inner line with some 

 blackish, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white striae beyond it from costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by rufous, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark strise ; cilia rufous with a slight dark line through 

 them. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous : the underside 

 white tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a dark dis- 

 coidal point, curved postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. 



Ilab. 'N. AxisTEALiA, Port Darwin {Buclcland, Lyell), 1 c? , 2 $; 

 Queensland, Gayndah, 1 cj type, Brisbane {Turner), IS, 1 $, 

 Moreton Bay (Biggie), 2 9 ; N. S. Wales, Paramatta (Lambert, 

 Biggie, liaynor), 6 c^" , 7 5 . Exp. 20-22 millim. 



5870. Eustrotia tegulata. 



Acontia teguMa, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. Mil p. 63, pi. 129. f. 1 (1889) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 308. 



Head and thorax white with a few brown scales especially on 

 tegulse; antenuse ochreous ringed with fuscous; palpi and legs 



