581 



3448. Eriopns leucobasis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax purple-brown mixed wifcli some white and black 

 scales ; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; 

 frons white with lateral black bars ; tegulae with blackish lines at 

 base, middle and tips ; spurs tipped with white, the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown leaving whitish 

 segmental bands, the crest on 3rd segment black. Pore wing 

 ochreous whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with dark 

 purple-brown ; subbasal line represented by double blackish striae 

 from costa and cell ; aiitemedial line very indistinct, blackish, 

 interrupted, with black line before it from submedian fold to inner 



Fig. 143. — Eriopus leucobasis, J. f. 



margin ; orbicular a small indistinct whitish spot ; reniform indis- 

 tinctly defined by whitish, narrow and with white points beyond its 

 lower extremity ; a diffused oblique waved blackish line from beyond 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish with 

 white striga at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some white spots beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line strong, white and dentate from costa to 

 vein 6, oblique and yellowish to vein 4, then blackish, waved, with 

 gmall whitish spot beyond it below vein 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules defined on inner side by some white scales ; a 

 line yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing with the basal half 

 yellowish white, the terminal half purple-browna ; cilia chequered 

 yellowish white and brown ; the underside white irrorated with 

 purple-brown except on basal half of inner area, a black discoidal 

 spot, diffused purple-brown medial band, black postmedial line, bent 

 outwards below costa, then crenulate, incurved and obsolescent below 

 vein 3, a terminal series of black spots from apex to vein 5. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis ; Ceylok, Kandy {Green), 2 2 ? Perak, 

 Goping ; Java, Arjuno {Dolierty), 1 S type. Exp. 28-30 millim. 



3449 . Eriopns manta. (Plate CXXI. fig. 15.) 



Mcthorasa mania, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 173 (1902). 



'c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pinkish white ; 

 abdomen pinkish mixed with bright rufous. Fore wing purplish 

 red slightly irrorated with dark brown ; a black point at base ; 



