398 



noctuid^;. 



patch. Hind wing dark fuscous. Underside with cell-spot and 

 postinedial line to each wing. 



Fig. 220. — Cymatophoropsis sinuata, tf . i. 



The form sinuata has the collar and patches of fore wing 

 suffused with brown, which in confluens are white. 

 Hah, Simla ; Sikkiin. Exp., $ 34, $ 40 millim. 



G-enus EISOBA. 



Eisoba, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 828. 

 Pitrasa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 94 (1882). 



Type, B. repugnans, Wlk. 



Mange. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; 

 Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, and reaching vertex of head ; antennae almost 

 as long as fore wing, with fasciculated cilia in male : thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter long ; tibiae smooth and 

 without spines. Fore wing without raised tufts ; the apex rect- 

 angular ; the cilia non-crenulate ; the retinaculum of male bar- 

 shaped ; and the claspers large and elongate. 



2277. Eisoba repugnans, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 9; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 144, tig. 1 ; C.8f 8. no. 1639. 



Head brown ; thorax and abdomen brownish white. Pore wing 



brownish grey ; a basal white 

 patch slightly suffused with 

 bright rufous ; indistinct waved 

 antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal lines ; the orbicular a 

 speck ; the reniform white, with 

 rufous centre and edge ; a large 

 apical rufous patch with whitish 

 lunule on its inner side ; some 

 rufous patches with white edges 

 on outer part of inner margin ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing white, with the outer area fuscous ; underside with cell- 

 spot. 



Bab. " N. India " ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



2278. Eisoba obstructa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 328 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 144, tigs. 2,2 a, b (larva) ; C. fy S. no. 1637. 

 Eisoba vialis, Lep. Atk. p. 91, pi. 4, fig. 1 ; C. 8? S. no. 1640. 



Fig. 221. 

 Eisoba repugnans, c? , 



