452 noctuidje. 



Ercheia uniformis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 24; C. $ S. no. 2590. 

 Ercheia zygia, Swinfi. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 465 ; C. 8r S. no. 2592. 

 Ercheia zura, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 465 ; C. $ S. no. 2591. 

 Melipotis costipennosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 166, pL 5, fig. 8 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2582. _ 

 Melipotis strigipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 165 ; C. fy S. no. 



2588. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pale reddish brown ; the collar and 

 patsgia often streaked with black. Eore wing with indistinct, 

 waved, antemedial line ; a postmedial line very much excurved 

 beyond the cell ; a waved submarginal line ; the orbicular repre- 

 sented by a speck ; the reniform indistinct, with dark outline. 

 Abdomen and hind wing fuscous black ; the latter with three medial 

 white spots, which may be disconnected, and the costal spot ob- 

 solescent or conjoined into a band ; a spot near centre of outer 

 margin ; the cilia white at apex and outer angle. Underside 

 ochreous white, irrorated with black ; fore wing with oblique cre- 

 nulate postmedial line and broad submarginal diffused band ; hind 

 wing similar, but with a lunule at end of cell and the line more 

 irregular. 



The form cyllaria has the fore wing suffused with fuscous and 

 streaked with black ; the spots of hind wing disconnected ; cyllota 

 has dark basal and apical costal patches ; -poly chroma has the lines 

 double and two ring-marks below 7 end of cell; fusifera has a pale 

 band along inner and outer margin, the remainder of the wing deep 



Fig. 254. — Ercheia cyllaria, $ . \. 



fuscous ; diversipennis has the medial band to hind wing with a 

 dark inner edge, and usually the basal area paler, the fore wing 

 marked like cyllaria, but paler ; pannosa is pale olive with the basal 

 and apical patches ; zygia has the pale band along inner and outer 

 margins, but ill-defined. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. Exp. 50- 

 60 millim. 



Genus HYPOCALA. 



Hypocala, Gum. Noct. hi, p. 73 (1852). 



Type, H. deflorate, Eabr. 



Range. Throughout the tropical and subtropical zones. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, and rostriform ; antennae 



