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mdalophota. B. metalophota Hmps. Forewing white with slight dark dusting; a diffuse black subbasal line and 
costal patch before inner line; the lines double, black; the inner angled outwards on the veins, followed by a 
small black-edged claviform stigma; the reniform large, defined by black and with a black discal bar at centre; 
costal patch before inner line; the lines double, black; the inner angled outwards on the veins, followed by an 
outer line bent outwards below costa, dentate on veins 6, 4, 3, inbent to inner edge of reniform, then vertical 
and strong to inner margin; subterminal line white preceded by a dentate black shade and followed by black 
spots above middle and a shade below it; a row of terminal black dots, accompanied by white lunules; fringe 
mottled, dark and light; hindwing dark brown with paler fringe. Khasia Hills, Assam. 
104. Genus : Hiistrotla Hbn. 
Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, second segment thickly scaled, terminal short, blunt; 
antennae of C ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; tibiae smooth; wings short 
and broad; fore wing smooth with pale markings. Larva with the prolegs on segment 7 absent, those on 
8 rudimentary; feeding on Carex and grasses in autumn, pupating in a cocoon among rubbish, so hybernating, 
and emerging in the following summer. Type E. uncula Cl. 
obliqua. E. obliqua Moore (26 1). Forewing cupreous olive brown, except the basal area, which is pale varied 
with brown and pink scales, limited by a line from costa oblique inwards; the dark area is traversed by an 
oblique white band from costa beyond middle to near anal angle; fringe brown; hindwing fuscous, with the 
base paler. Occurs at Simla, Dharmsala, and the Kangra Valley in the Punjab, in Ceylon and Burma, also be¬ 
yond the frontier in Kashmir. 
basiplda. E. basipleta spec. nov. (261). Forewing paler, more olive, brown than in obliqua Moore; the narrow 
basal area wholly olive brown without any white scaling; the inner white band broader, reaching inner margin 
close to base; the outer ending in a point on inner margin before tornus, therefore less oblique. Several 
examples from the Khasia Hills, Assam. Type in the Tring Museum. 
semiannu- E. semiannulata spec. nov. (26 m). Forewing olive brown, duller than in basipleta and dusted with some 
Mu. ( ] ar p atoms; basal area below middle whitish, uniting with the oblique white inner line, the costal portion 
remaining olive; the outer oblique white line, often interrupted below middle, with irregular and crenulate 
edges, the outer emitting a white black-edged loop across the discal fold; traces of a pale and black scaled 
subterminal line; fringe olive grey with 2 or 3 dark lines; hindwing olive grey, paler towards base and costa; 
the terrnen darker, and fringe paler; underside of fore wing fulvous grey, with all the margins ochreous; of 
hindwing ochreous dusted with brown and with a small dark cellspot, both wings with distinct dark angled 
outer line; head and thorax olive brown; dorsum olive ochreous with dark segmental rings. 4 Co 1 ? from 
Burma, 1 <C from the Naga Hills, Assam. Type in Tring Museum. As in "obliqua Moore the <CC are rather 
darker than the 
pcipuensis. E. papuensis spec. nov. (26 m). Forewing pale greyish olive, crossed by Wo subparallel outwardly 
oblique white lines, conversely edged with black, starting at V 4 and y 2 of costa, the black edgings irregularly 
crenulate; a very faint pale curved subterminal line; costa at base brownish; fringe olive grey; hindwing grey; 
underside of forewing dark olive grey, of hindwing whitish with the costa and apex broadly grey; a dark 
cellspot; face and palpi olive brownish; thorax and abdomen grey. Several examples from the Upper Se- 
tekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, August 1910 (A. S. Meek); Biagi, Mambare River; Rendova, 
Solomon Islands; and Dorei. Type in Tring Museum. 
fuscicilia. E. fuscicilia Hmps. (26 m). Forewing ochreous tinged with rufous, irrorated with a few black scalese 
indistinct sinuous inner and outer lines with dark spots on inner margin; a terminal series of black dots; fringe 
grey and black; hindwing pale luteous suffused with fuscous. The species is recorded from Jubbulpur in the 
Punjab, and from Belgaum and the Nilgiri Hills, Madras, in S. India. 
flavifrons. E. flavifrons Moore. Forewing uniform ochreous suffused with fuscous; hindwing ochreous white 
suffused with brown, the fringe paler; head yellow; palpi blackish, the third segment and tip of second yellow; 
defuscata. thorax fuscous brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen brownish ochreous; subsp. defuscata subsp. nov. has the 
patagia and thorax ochreous and the tegulae with a yellow spot at base; the forewing ochreous with fuscous 
