ERASTRIA. 



301 



Fore wing with the areole long and narrow. Hind wing with 

 veins 3 and 4 from cell. Legs naked. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



1986. Erastria stygia, Butt. III. Ret. iii, p. 20, pi. 46, fig. 2. 



Black-brown ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with grey 

 scales; the last with indistinct subbasal and antemedial waved 

 lines ; the orbicular barely traceable ; the reniform more prominent 

 and with white outline ; the postmedial curved and waved line 

 indistinct from the costa to A T ein 2, thence white and prominent to 

 inner margin ; the submarginal irregularly waved line indistinct 

 and with white scales on it in places ; a marginal series of black 

 spots slightly denned by white ; cilia with white streaks on them 

 below apex. Hind wing pale fuscous ; the cilia whitish at tips ; 

 underside with cell-spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hab. Japan ; Nagas ; Ceylon. Exp. 22-28 millim. 



1987. Erastria larentiformis. 



Erastria cidarioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 142 ; C. 8f S. no. 1796 

 (praeocc). 



Differs from stygia in being browner; the orbicular more 

 prominent ; the reniform with dark outline ; the postmedial line 

 more irregularly excurved and ochreous from the costa to vein 7, 



Fig. 163. — Erastria larentiformis, $ . \. 



thence white to inner margin ; the whole of the outer area white 

 except the apical area : a black subapical mark and a spot on 

 centre of outer area. 



Bab. Sikhim. Exp. 28 millim. 



1988. Erastria aurata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110. pi. 4, fig. 10 ; C. $S. 

 no. 2064. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with pale red-brown and 

 fuscous scales. Fore wing golden green, with waved subbasal, 

 antemedial, indistinct medial, and postmedial lines ; the orbicular 

 and reniform with whitish outlines and a black patch between them 

 extending upwards to the costa ; a grey patch on inner margin 

 between the antemedial and medial lines ; some dark suffusion on 

 apical part of outer area ; an irregularly sinuous submarginal line ; 

 a marginal series of white specks. Hind wing pale ; the inner 



