ET7STE0TIA. 585 



tinged with oclireous and irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with ochreous ; abdomen white tinged with oehreous except 

 at base and irrorated with brown. Eore wing pure white , the 

 costal edge blackish brown towards base; a subbasal black point in 

 cell ; an erect minutelj? waved black medial line with broad black- 

 brown, band on. its outer side expanding towards inner margin and 

 confluent in submedian interspace with the depressed apex of a 

 large triangular black-brown patch on terminal area, extending on 

 termen from apex to tornus, its upper edge irregular ; some black- 

 browu points on costa towards apex with some ochreous below 

 them ; cilia black-brown with three fine pale lines on basal half. 

 Hind wing white tinged with ochreous brown especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia paler with a faint brownish line at middle ; 

 the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a dark dis- 

 coidal spot and terminal series of stria3. 



Hub. C. China, Foo-chau {Leech), 2 S ; Punjab, Simla (//«r/or(Z), 

 ] 5 , Dharmsala (Hoddng), 3 d" , 3 $ type ; Madras, Shevaroys 

 {Campbell), 1 S , Nilgiris {Hami^son), 2 c? . Exj). 22 millim. 



5871. Eustrotia albibasis. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 4.) 



Hi/ekc albibasis, Hmpsii. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 393 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax white slightly tinged with yellow ; palpi 

 with some black scales ; antennae ringed with brown ; patagia with 

 brown and fuscous bars at base ; fore legs tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen yellowish white dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing with the basal area white slightly tinged with yellow, 

 the costal edge fuscous, the rest of wing olive-yellow thickly 

 irrorated with black ; antemedial line black defined on inner 

 side by white, obliquely curved ; traces of a blackish medial 

 line, oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly incurved ; 

 a white patch from costa to discal fold before the postmedial 

 line, which is slight, blackish defined by white on outer side, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled at vein 4, then 

 incurved, an oblique white patch beyond it from costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by some 

 black suffusion and slight black marks towards costa and in sub- 

 median interspace, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, 

 and angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing yellowish almost wholly suffused Avith 

 fuscous brown ; cilia yellowish mixed with brown ; the underside 

 yellow irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot and post- 

 medial line bent iuwards to costa. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh), 1 $ type, Exp. 18 millim. 



