■EUSTROTIA. 601 



the fore tibiae and the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing 

 ■with the basal half grey suffused with purplish fuscous, the ter- 

 minal half purplish brown tinged with leaden grey, the costa with 

 small pink spots : subbasal line indistinct, pale, from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line indistinct, whitish, nearly straight to 

 vein ] , then excurved ; reniform grey with white annulus except 

 above and below, defined by black spots and points except above 

 and constricted at middle ; postmedial line fuscous defined on each 

 side by grey, bent outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique, 

 slightly incurved at discal and submedian folds, with slight blackish 

 streaks beyond it above and below vein 6 and slight blackish mark 

 before it in submedian fold ; sabterminal line fine, white, minutely 

 dentate, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved in submedian 

 interspace ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with a greyish tinge, the cilia pale reddish brown ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a small 

 black discoidal spot and diffused maculate postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines, 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing paler and much redder ; both 

 wings with the cilia pinkish. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris (Rampson), 1 cJ , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



5901. Eustrotia excavata. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 27.) 



Grammodes excavata, Wlk. xxxiii. 973 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Motlis Ind. ii. 

 p. 329. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with grey ; 

 the fore tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal 

 half grey thickly irrorated with dark red-brown, the terminal half 

 chocolate-red mixed with some grey ; subbasal line double, red- 

 brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, red- 

 brown, slightly sinuous, a somewhat diffused red-brown line before 

 it; reniform with slight grey annulus defined by black striae and 

 points, open above; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique and defined on outer 

 side by whitish, some grey before aud beyond it at costa and some 

 pale rufous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey, 

 slightly sinuous to vein 3, then waved ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown lunules ; cilia with grey lines at base and near tips. Hind 

 wing reddish brown tinged with grey ; cilia grey at base and tips ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged 

 with yellowish, a slight discoidal point and indistinct postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Madras, Nilgiris (Rampson), 2 c? , 1 ? , Coimbatore ( Wal- 

 house), 1 2 type. Exp). 30-32 millim. 



