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doul)le, bent inwards to costa and incurved at discal and sub- 

 luediari folds ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by a 

 dark patch at costa and with a broad purplish band before it 

 interrupted at discal and submedian folds, and with two white 

 points on costa and the area beyond it purplish except at apex, 

 slightly angled inwards below costa and at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia purplish brown 

 and white. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brown towards 

 termen ; a fine terminal brown line ; the underside j'ellowish 

 white with some brown suffusion on costa at middle and apex. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with patches of black and rufous scales on 

 inner medial area replacing the sinuous line, black points before 

 subterminal line below costa and at middle. 



Hob. Bengal, Moghal Serai (Betton), 1 2 ; Bombay, Kutch, 1 J , 

 Poena (SivinJioe), 2 2 type, Khandalla (Swinhoe), 1 5 ; Madras, 

 Belgaum ( Watson), 2 d ■ Exp. 16-20 millira. 



This may be a variety of E. undulata. 



5946. Eulocastra undulata. 



Erastria undulata, Snell. Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Lep. p. 45 (1880). 

 Acontia excisa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 455 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 318. 

 Acontia excisa, Ball. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 61, pi. 129. ff. 5, 6 (1889). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with purplish grey, the 

 head tinged with ochreous ; legs yellowish, the tibise and tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen fuscous brown with slight pale 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface yellowish. Pore wing purplish 

 grey sufl'used in parts with cupreous brown ; a broad antemedial 

 white band, its inner edge sinuous with patches of raised black 

 scales on it and the sinuous antemedial purplish line near its 

 outer edge ; orbicular a white point defined by black on outer 

 side, the reniform a narrow bar faintly defined by white and with 

 black spot before it in end of cell ; medial line blackish, rather 

 diffused and irregularly waved ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with whitish and with blackish spots before it at discal and sub- 

 median folds, excurved below costa and incurved at discal and 

 submedian folds ; postmedial area with indistinct waved dark line 

 and some white points on costa ; subterminal line white, dentate, 

 angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a white apical 

 patch ; a terminal series of black points slightly defined by white 

 on inner side ; cilia grey-brown, white towards apex. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with purplish grey ; traces of a dark discoidal 

 point and whitish postmedial band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line placed on a pure 

 white band and without the w^hite patch at apex and on cilia ; 

 abdomen yellowish with dark bands. 



Hah. CoREA., Douglas Inlet {B. Fletcher), 1 S ", Biinjab, Simla 

 vor,. X. 2 s 



