ETJSTROTIA. 591 



oehreous suffused with fuscous ; cilia pale ochreous ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with black, a small discoidal spot and 

 indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Madras, Belgaum {Watson\ 1 5 type. Exp. 22 millim. 



5882. Eustrotia lixiva. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 13.) 



Tripudia lixiva, Grote, Can. Eat. xiv. p. 173 (1882); Smith. Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 315. 

 Eustrotia. momn, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 312 (part.). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi, pectus, and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore tibiae 

 and the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale ochreous irrorated 

 with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 tinged with rufous and with slight dark irroration ; a subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line with black striga from 

 costa, then faint and slightly angled inwards in cell ; a wedge- 

 shaped black-brown patch on medial area, its apex truncate and 

 extending to subcostal nervure, edged with black lines slightly 

 defined by silvery white ; a black-brown spot on middle of costa 

 with oblique black striga from it to the medial patch ; postmedial 

 line hardly traceable, rufous, bent inwards to lower angle of cell, 

 then oblique, sinuous; subtermiual line. defined on inner side by a 

 blackish patch on costal area with a pale point on costa, then 

 slightly by brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and obso- 

 lete below submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 with blackish patches at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind wing 

 pale rufous ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside ochreous slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 S ; Mexico, Durango 

 (BeeJcer), 1 § , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exy. 22 millim. 



*5883. Eustrotia basicinerea. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 14.) 



Tripudia hasicinerr.a, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Siirv. Terr. vi. p. 563 

 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 315. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Fore wing with the basal 

 half grey, the terminal half suffused with pale red-brown ; a some- 

 what incurved medial velvety black band outwardly oblique towards 

 inner margin and not reaching costa on which there are two small 

 dark spots, the band defined on outer side by pale and dark lines ; 

 reniform pale, round, some dark points on postmedial part of 

 costa ; subterminal line pale defined on inner side slightly by 

 fuscous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia blackish with a pale line at base. Hind wing pale 

 suffused with brown ; the underside tinged with ochreous, an 

 indistinct double postmedial line. 



