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EUPROCTIS. By Dr. E. Strand. 
howra. E. howra Moore (44 d). upper surface ochreous-yellow, the hindwing the lightest, the forewing 
with a black-spotted short streak from the middle of the posterior margin and a small black-spotted spot at 
the cell-end. Palpi above ochreous-brown. — Distinguished from E. semisignata Wkr. (44 b) by the darker 
rhoda. colouring and the presence of a black discocellular spot. Expanse of wings: 24% mm. Calcutta. — In rhoda Swinh. 
two dark bands rise from the posterior margin, the proximal one extending to the discocellular spot. Expanse 
obsoleta. of wings: 32 mm. North Kanara. — obsoleta Hmps. is lighter than rhoda and without the discocellular spot. 
One or several of these 3 forms are reported to occur also in Burma and the Andamans. 
fulvinigra. E. fulvinigra Hmps. <$: head and thorax orange-yellowish. Legs whitish. Abdomen brownish-black 
with a reddish-yellow anal brush. Forewing orange-yellowish, speckled darker, costal margin as well as ante- 
median and postmedian lines light. Hindwing brownish-black with whitish fringes. Under surface speckled 
whitish and with a white costal area. —- $: abdomen reddish-yellow, hued brownish. Hindwing yellow with 
fringes. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Sikkim. 
xanthostic- E. xanthosticta Hmgjs. yellowish-white, thorax with a reddish admixture. Forewing hued reddish 
ta • and with traces of 6 undulate and extinct lines; two orange spots towards the apex and a small spot before 
vein 3. Hindwings yellow. $: white. Forewing with some reddish-yellow scales behind the base of vein 2, 
two similar spots near the apex, a dot below vein 6, and a spot above vein 3. Expanse of wings: 28, $ 34 mm. 
Bombay. 
olivata. E. olivata Hmps. (44 c). Both sexes have a whitish head, brownish thorax, dark abdomen with orange 
anal brush. Forewing greyish-brown, speckled with black and hued olive-yellowish, with a curved, white 
antemedian line, a postmedian line formed of crescentiform figures and angled tAvice proximally, fringes spotted 
brown and white. Hindwings white, hued brownish. Expanse of wings: $ 28, $ 40 mm. Ivhasis (India). 
macrostig- E. macrostigma Hmps. <$: white. Antennae and thorax hued orange. Forewing with a similar costal 
ma ■ margin. Forewing speckled with large orange scales from behind the costal margin to the proximal margin 
and between veins 3 and 5 to the margin; at the cell-encl a large, round black spot, besides two subapical spots. 
Hindwings hued yellowish. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Ceylon: Kandy. 
laniata. E. laniata Hmps. head and thorax ochreous, thorax mixed with black. Abdomen black, the 
extreme apex orange. Forewing black, in the basal area speckled with ochreous scales, costal margin, ante- 
median and postmedian lines as well as fringes ochreous. Hindwing black with orange fringes. — $: head, 
thorax and forewing with very long, white, undulate hairing, the black areas of the <$ are here brown. Costal 
margin of forewing, lines and fringes of both wings yellowish-white. Expanse of wings: $ 36, $ 32 mm. Madras. 
humida. E. humida Swinh. <$: ochreous-fawn; abdomen blackish-brown with an ochreous anal brush. Fore- 
Aving with an ochreous antemedian line showing in and before the middle a proximal angle or bend, and a 
similar postmedian line, which is distally curved before the middle, as well as with a dark discocellular spot 
and 2 or 3 more, sometimes blurred dark spots; marginal line light brown; fringes ochreous-fawn. Hind- 
wing blackish-brown except in the marginal area. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Singapore. 
semisignata. E. semisignata Wkr. (44 b). Light yellow, forewing with a brown costal-marginal streak near the 
base and with a short, oblique, black-spotted band from the angle of the cell to the middle of the posterior 
leithiana. margin. — In leithiana Moore this band is broken up into 2 to 4 spots, and besides there is a discocellular spot; 
erecta. the ground-colour is very light. — erecta Moore shows a broad, brown, coherent, straight band from the costal 
breviviita. margin of the cell to the posterior margin of the wing, AA hereas in brevivitta Moore (44 i) it is replaced by an 
illanta. oblique roAv of 4 small black spots almost touching each other. — illanta Swinh. is a small, uni-coloured, crearny- 
citrina. whitish form. — eitrina Moore from Ceylon is of a particularly light colouring and without a black discocellular 
spot. Expanse of Avings: $ 33 to 40 mm, $ 40—52 mm. Widely distributed in India and Ceylon. 
nigripennis. E. nigripennis Hmps. head and thorax reddish-yellow, abdomen black with an orange anal brush. 
Forewing reddish-yellow, speckled darker, with undulate antemedian and postmedian lines, the space betAA r een 
as Avell as the apical area hued black, except on the veins; besides a light submarginal undulate line. Hindwing 
jet-black with a broad reddish-yellow marginal band. — $ lighter, abdomen with a large, reddish-yellow anal 
brush, marginal band of hindwing light fawn. Expanse of wings: S 42, $ 55 mm. Sikkim. 
arcnaeea. E. arenacea Hmps. $: body brownish-ochreous, forewing light yellow, speckled darker, with indi¬ 
stinct light antemedian and postmeclian lines, and before the antemedian line there extends a broad, impurely 
dark band, whereas the postmedian line exhibits on its outside on the costal margin a large dark patch and 
is otherAvise slightly scaled dark on the outside. HindAA’ing light yellow. Expanse of AA’ings: 22 mm. Sikkim *). 
*) Euproctis flavimaculata Hmps. is Mardara irrorata Moore. 
