576 NocTTJiDji;, 



orbicular with white annulus defined by black, its centre slightlj- 

 defined by black, round ; reniform with white centre defined by 

 blackish, with white annulus on inner side and white points on 

 outer, its lower extremity produced ; an indistinct waved blackish 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, black filled in with whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, angled outwards at 

 vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; a wedge-shaped 

 yellowish mark at discal fold"; subterminal line formed by small, 

 rather diff'used lunulate white marks from costa to vein 4, then 

 defined on inner side by faint blackish lunules and with slight 

 white marks above veins 2 and 1 ; a fine waved whitish line before 

 termen ; cilia with fine yellowish line at base followed by a black 

 line, the tips checiuered white and black. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown especially on terminal area ; a faint dark discoidal bar ; 

 cilia white ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, crenulate postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Darker, the hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. S. France {MilVere, Walsincjhani), Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Attstkia, Tirol, Carniola ; Hungary ; Switzerland, 

 Simplon, Frey Coll.; Spain, Leech Coll; Dalmatia {Hey tie, 

 Matheiv); Algeria; Madeira; Canaries, Guimar (Walsingham), 

 2 c? , 2 2 ; Congo {Ricliardson), 1 $ type roseitelum ; Egypt ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Neugia (Craivshay), 1 c? Eb. Urru (Betton), 1 $; 

 Transvaal (Cholmley), 1 d' , 1 $ ; Natal, Durban {Leigh), 1 J; 

 Basutola'Nd, Maseru {Crawshay), 1 $; C. Colony, Deelfontein 

 {Sloc/gett), 1 c? , 1 ? ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Eithynia : Syria ; 

 Punjab, Sultanpur ((?. Young), 2 d, 2 5, Simla {jSwinJws), 2 c? , 

 1 5, Dharmsala {HocHng), 2 c? , 6 2; Madras, Bangalore 

 ( Watson), 2 $ , Nilgiris {Hampson, Campbell), 2 c? , 2 § . Exjp. 

 24-32 millim. 



Larva, Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 248 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 100. pi. 2R. f. fi. 



Pale rusty red with many indistinct pale longitudinal lines ; 

 stigmata yellow. Food-plants: the reddish scales covering the 

 capsules of Ceterach officinarum, and Notuclilceiia ma>rmte. 10. 



3443. Eriopus complicata. (Plate CXXI. fig. 12.) 



Meihorasa complicata, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 7 and vi. pi. 21. fig. 2 (1894). 



5 , Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 red-brown ; palpi with the extremity of 2nd joint whitish ; tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish at 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing whitish almost 

 wholly suffused and irrorated with black-brown, the veins with 

 slight pale streaks ; a yellowish-whitish striga from base of costa ; 

 subbasal line yellowish white, angled inwards in cell and excurved 

 below costa and cell, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line yellowish 

 white, slightly angled outwards below costa, then excurved, an 



