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RHYNCODIA; ERASTROIDES. By W. Warren. 
disparilis. 
mesophaea. 
flavibasalis. 
oliviaria. 
fausta . 
segment; forewing elongate triangular; vein 6 from below upper angle of cell, 7 from the angle; 8, 9, 10 
stalked; in the hindwing vein 5 is weak, rising from below middle of discocellular. Type H. disparilis Walk. 
H. disparilis Walk. Forewing whitish suffused with rufous, except the inner margin and a patch 
on costa before apex; traces of two oblique rufous inner lines from costa to submedian fold, and of an oblique 
rufous cell mark with whitish beyond it; outer line dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6 near termen, then 
inwardly oblique and straight, followed by whitish suffusion below vein 3; a row of slight brown terminal 
lunules; hindwing rufous white. From Sarawak, Borneo. The position of this insect seems doubtful. 
87. Genus: ltliym*o<lia Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi porrect; the second segment bent forward at extremity 
in a line with the third which is long and pointed; antennae of $ lamellate; thorax and abdomen smoothly 
scaled, without crests; forewing with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; the $ lias a bed of blackish androconia 
covering the cell and area round it on underside; hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortly stalked. Type 
R. mesophaea Hmps. 
R. mesophaea Hmps. Forewing rufous; the costal area before middle and the median area blackish; a 
grey suffusion between end of cell and outer line; some blackish scaling at base of inner margin; inner line 
indistinct, blackish with ochreous on inner side, curved; outer line double, filled in with grey as far as cell 
fold, where it is interrupted by a black spot, then with white, outbent below costa, outcurved to vein 4, then 
obliquely incurved; subterminal line shown only by a faint oblique pale costal striga; orbicular stigma 
minute, round, rufous defined by black; reniform small, oval, with rufous centre and grey annulus defined by 
black; hindwing fuscous brown; the costal area paler. Travancore, S. India. 
88. Genus: Erastroides Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment short and broadly 
scaled, the third smooth and blunt; antennae of <$ lamellate, pubescent; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, 
the mesothorax and metathorax with slight crests; fore wing broad, the apex blunt, the termen evenly rounded; 
veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Type E. oliviaria Hmps. 
E. flavibasalis Hmps. (25h). Forewing olive green; patches of orange on basal and lower median areas; 
the costa and median and postmedian areas except at inner margin suffused with black and irrorated with 
bluish white; the costal striae bluish white; inner line black, obliquely curved from cell to inner margin, ob¬ 
solete above; a black dot at middle of cell; cellspot lunulate, white defined at sides by black, the white 
forming short streaks on veins beyond the angles of cell; median line incurved from end of cell to inner margin; 
outer line double, black filled in with bluish white scales, single and defined by white on outer side below vein 2; 
subterminal line with black suffusion before it; terminal area with blackish and bluish white streaks on the 
veins; terminal black striae; fringe whitish and fuscous with a dark patch at middle; hindwing brownish grey. 
Found in the Ivliasia Hills, Assam. 
E. oliviaria Hmps. (25 h). Fore wing fuscous rufous; the lines black and double filled in with ochreous 
white; subbasal line represented by costal striae; inner line oblique and wavy; a claviform stigma slightly 
defined by blackish at extremity; orbicular round, reniform oval with whitish annulus, both defined by black; 
median line a dark bar from costa and oblique sinuous line below cell; outer line double filled in with whitish 
excurved above and incurved below middle; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, and 
inwards on cellfold, obsolete below; a terminal row of small black and white lunules; hindwing brownish 
white ; the $ has the rufous more developed and the black less except on costal half of ante median area, on lower 
median area, and before subterminal line at costa; a black patch in cell between the stigmata. Ceylon only. 
E. fausta Swinh. (25 h). Forewing ochreous yellow suffused with fuscous and purple to outer line, 
and with a blackish patch on apical area; a black subbasal costal striga; inner line double, dai'k filled 
in with ochreous, slightly outcurved; claviform stigma some whitish scales defined by black; orbicular small, 
round, with dark centre and ochreous annulus defined by black, with some white scales on its inner side; reniform 
