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MICRAESCHUS. By W. Warren. 
albifrontata. 
etroctci. 
ferreofusa . 
vinacea. 
eosarialis. 
■prolectus. 
rosellus. 
E. albifrontata Moore (22 f). Porewing pale rufous, brighter along costa and termen; inner and 
outer lines brown, oblique, the outer diffuse; cellspot dark; fringe with white tips; hindwing pale rufous, 
with a diffuse oblique redbrown median line; terminal line redbrown; fringe with white tips; head, thorax 
and abdomen pale rufous; vertex pure white. Described from a single $ from Sikkim. 
E. etrocta Hmps. (22 f). Porewing purplish pink with a sprinkling of black scales; the costa black¬ 
ish; postmedian area greenish grey; inner line inwardly oblique, punctiform; outer line blackish, outwardly 
edged with flesh pink, angled at vein 6; subterminal line defined by the oblique outer edge of the green¬ 
ish grey fascia; a row of small black lunules along termen; cellspot blackish, small; fringe bright 
pink, with some black and white scales at the tips; hindwing similar; thorax and abdomen purplish pink; 
the vertex pure white. Madras; described from a single $. 
E. ferreofusa Hmps. (22 f). Foiewing brownish grey suffused with purplish red and dusted with 
dark; costal edge dark; termen from apex to vein 4 and again towards tornus whitish; inner line dark, indistinct, 
inwardly oblique; outer line dark, oblique to vein 6, inangled beyond cell, incurved and waved below 4; 
subterminal line remote from termen, indistinct, dark, twice obliquely incurved, angled outwards on vein 
4; a minute black lunule on discocellular; hindwing purplish red, with some white admixture and dark 
dusting; a curved diffuse outer line, and black cellspot; vertex of head and base of antennae pure white. 
Madras. 
E. vinacea Hmps. (22 f). Forewing pale purplish pink; black dots on costa and in cell near base; 
inner line marked by an oblique blackish bar from costa to subcostal vein; a prominent black cell lunule; 
outer line oblique and black from costa to vein 7, incurved and punctiform below 4; subterminal line whit¬ 
ish, very faint; fringe yellow at tips; hindwing pale purplish pink, with slight black dusting except at base 
and termen; costa greyish; a black cellbar; outer line black edged with yellowish white, irregularly waved, 
excurved between veins 4 and 3; subterminal line black, preceded by white scaling at each extremity. 
Nilgiri Hills, Madras. 
E. eosarialis Walk. (22f). Forewing whitish suffused with blood red, especially in basal and median 
areas, slightly sprinkled with black; inner line obscure, red, punctiform; a slight red spot on discocel¬ 
lular, with a striga from costa above it; outer line reddish with some black scales on it, lunulate dentate; 
subterminal line faintly whitish, parallel to termen; small red terminal dots; fringe blood red, with pale line at 
base and Avhite tips mottled with dark at apex and middle; hindwing blood red, the base whitish; outer 
line angled at vein 3, whitish below, punctiform and black above; head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ochreous, 
the vertex white. The type, a from Sarawak, Borneo; also from Pulo Laut. 
10. Genus: Micraeschus Bilr. 
Differs from Enispa in having the termen of hind wing curved. Type M. elataria Walk. 
M. prolectus Trnr. (22 f). Forewing grey, sprinkled with a few black scales, the basal half suf¬ 
fused with silvery; the costa red except at extremities; two subbasal black points, obliquely placed; 
inner line acutely angled outwards below costa, then oblique, punctiform on veins; two black cell dots; 
outer line blackish, outwardly angled below costa, then oblique and dentate; postmedian area with cho¬ 
colate red suffusion down to vein 2; subterminal line defined mainly by the contrast of colours, somewhat 
dentate; fringe deep red with yellow tips; hindwing similar, but the postmedian suffusion pale red; outer line 
marked by white points, and a small spot at inner margin, somewhat dentate. Kuranda, Queensland. 
M. rosellus Hmps. (22 f). Forewing yellowish white sprinkled with crimson and black scales; the 
costa with silvery irroration; a dark mark at base of costa; two subbasal crimson spots below middle; 
inner line oblique, dark towards costa, then crimson; a small round dark spot in cell at middle, a bar at end, 
and an oblique streak from lower angle to termen at vein 3, irrorated with silver; outer line blackish, 
slender, bent at vein 4, with a large white patch beyond it above inner margin; subterminal line blackish, 
inwardly white edged towards costa, swollen into a patch touching outer line at cellfold; a black terminal 
