588 NOCTUii)^. 



5876. Eustrotia ruptifascia. 



Aco7itia ruptifascia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 75, pi. 145. f. 12 

 (1891) , id.' Moths Ind. ii. p. 308. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi ochreous with some black scales ; 

 antennae brown ; neck with ochreous brown ring ; legs ochreous, 

 the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen ochreons irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pure white : costal edge ochreous towards 

 base ; two subbasal black points on costa and a point in cell ; a 

 broad media] black-brown band with slightly sinuous edges, ex- 

 panding somewhat at middle and towards inner margin ; a black 

 point at lower angle of cell and a slight black mark in discal fold 

 beyond the cell; an oblit]ue w^edge-shaped black-brown patch with 

 irregular edges from apical ])art of costa to discal fold ; a sub- 

 terminal black-brown bar at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia ochreous mixed with black on inner half. Hind wing 

 ochreous white tinged Avith fuscous ; cilia ochreous with brownish 

 line at middle and brown tips ; the underside ochreous irrorated 

 with fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Maueas, Wynad {CarcUw), 1 $ , Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 S 

 type. Exp. 22 millim. 



5877. Eustrotia thermozona, n. sp. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 9.) 



(5 . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with rufous : palpi 

 and antennae pale rufous ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen 

 Avhite tinged with rufous. Fore wing silvery white ; the basal part 

 of costal area bright rufous interrupted by a slight white antemedial 

 striga ; a subbasal black point in cell ; an erect minutely waved 

 black medial line with a broad bright rufous band beyond it, its 

 outer edge minutely waved ; postmedial line represented by a slight 

 dark striga from costa on the outer edge of the rufous band and a 

 sinuous black striga beyond the cell ; terminal uioa bright rufous, 

 narrowing to tornus ; subterminal line rather diffused, blackish, 

 curved, with some wliire points on it ; cilia white with sbght fuscous 

 spots at tips and fuscous patch at tornus. Hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with rufous, the terminal area suffused with rufous except 

 towards tornus ; cilia white ; the underside white tinged with 

 rufous especially at costa, traces of a waved postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 5. 



Hab. N. Atjsxealia, Port Darwin (Buclland), 1 J type. Ex^y. 

 18 millim. 



5878. Eustrotia ritsemae. 



Erasfria ritsema, Suell. Tijd v. Ent. xxiii. p. 57, pL v. f. 2 (1880). 

 Acontia vitiensis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 399. 

 Erasfria alhofiisca, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xli. p. 133 (1888). 



Head and thorax white, the head, tegulae, base of patagia, and 



