ETJSTROTIA. 595 



5890. Eustrotia decissima. 



Microphi/tia decissi?na, Wlk. xxxiii. 805 (1S65). 

 Erastria afnca>ia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 6 (1874). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some purplish 

 grey ; pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen purplish brown with slight ochreous white segmental 

 lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey; subbasal line double, blackish, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, the lines widely 

 separated, waved ; medial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 waved, oblique from costa to below the cell, followed by a broad 

 diffused white band ; a dark discoidal bar with a black spot beyond 

 it ; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side by vphite, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the postmedial area with some white 

 points ou costa, traces of a waved postmedial line and a slight 

 black streak below vein 7 ; subterminal line slight, vp-hite, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, and with short black streaks beyond 

 it above and below vein 5 and below vein 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; cilia whitish tinged with brown at base ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown, the terminal area sufiused 

 with black-brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. ZANZIBA.K {de la Garde), 1 J ; Be. E. Africa, Eb TJrru 

 (Betton), 2 c? , 2 $ ; Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall), 1 (5' ; 

 Rhodesia, Bulawayo {Eyles), 1 2 ', Transvaal, Warmbad (Janse), 

 1 2 ; Natal, Durban (Gooch, Leigh), 5 cJ , 2 $ . Kv;p. 20-24 

 millira. 



5891. Eustrotia mianoides. 



Osarba mianoides, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 98, pi. 162. f. 16 (1893) ; 

 id. Moths lad. ii. p. 817. 



(^ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish ; pal[)i 

 at base, pectus, and legs whiter ; abdomen brown with whitish 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Eore wing dark 

 reddish brown mixed with some grey, a broad ochreous whife 

 baud tinged with rufous beyond the medial line ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, some black 

 beyond its lower extremity ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved ; medial line double, the inner line indistinct, waved, the 

 outer black and bounding the dark area, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa and bent inwards at submedian fold ; a black discoidal 

 point ; postmedial line very indistinct, excurved from below costa 

 to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower angle of cell and sinuous to 

 inner margin, some pale points beyond it on costa with dark streaks 

 between them ; subterminal line whitish excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds, short black 



2q2 



