19(3 
NOCTUI D.K. 
Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown. Underside 
whitish ; fore wing suffused with red-brown except on inner 
area ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, 
a brown discoidal striga and strongly curved postmedial line 
from costa to vein 4. 
Hab. N. S. Wales {Raynor), 2 type. Exp. 16 millim. 
Genus ERASTRIOPIS, nov. 
Type, E. lativitta, Moore ( Eudorea ), P. Z. S. 1883, p. 29 ; 
Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 539 (1896). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint porrect, 
rather broadly scaled below, the scales produced at the 
extremity of the joint, and fringed with hair above except 
at base, the 3rd moderate, oblique, thickly scaled ; frons 
smooth, with slight ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly 
scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 
wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 
curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 
cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 
stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the 
length of wing ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 fully developed 
from above angle of cell ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Erastriopis anaemica, n. sp. 
<$. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with red- 
brown ; antennae red-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs and ventral 
surface of abdomen white suffused with red-brown. Fore 
wing white suffused with red -brown and dark brown to the 
postmedial line, then slightly mixed with red-brown and dark 
brown ; a dark subbasal striga below the cell ; antemedial 
line dark brown, excurved below the cell ; a white discoidal 
bar, defined at sides by black-brown ; postmedial line in- 
distinct, brown, excurved beyond the cell, then strongly 
incurved, some white points with* brown between them 
beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, white with a 
brown shade before it to vein 6, a blackish streak at discal 
fold and blackish streak across it below vein 7, incurved 
below vein 3 ; some dark points on termen. Hind wing 
almost pure white. Underside white ; fore wing suffused 
with red-brown ; hind wing with the costal and terminal 
areas slightly irrorated with red-brown, a small dark discoidal 
spot with slight dark mark above it below costa. 
Ilab. Sikhim Tibet, Yatong (Hobson), 2 $ type. Exp. 
20 millim. 
