. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EULOCASTKA. 619 and submediaii folds ; cilia black-hrown glossed with grey. Hind wing white tiuged with ochreous, in female with brown. Ab, 1. triangularis. Fore wing more strongly tinged with rufous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous. Ab. 2. laticincta. Fore wing with tlie terminal black-brown band wider ; hind wing suffused with Fig. 165.—Euloca^tra di('2)hora. J. |. Ilab. Algekia, Hammara-es-Salahin (WahingJiam), 4 J ; Ak- MENiA ; Asia Mixoe, Poutus; Stria, Mardin ; Palestine; Adex (Nurse), 1 6 type atribasalis ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EULOCASTKA. 619 and submediaii folds ; cilia black-hrown glossed with grey. Hind wing white tiuged with ochreous, in female with brown. Ab, 1. triangularis. Fore wing more strongly tinged with rufous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous. Ab. 2. laticincta. Fore wing with tlie terminal black-brown band wider ; hind wing suffused with Fig. 165.—Euloca^tra di('2)hora. J. |. Ilab. Algekia, Hammara-es-Salahin (WahingJiam), 4 J ; Ak- MENiA ; Asia Mixoe, Poutus; Stria, Mardin ; Palestine; Adex (Nurse), 1 6 type atribasalis ; Persia, ITrumiab (Giinther), 1 J; Pqnjab, Jamrud {Watson), 1 c?, 1 $ , Campbellpur (Terbury), 1 2 type triangularis. Exp. 16 millim. The type of atribasalis is an aberrant specimen with the areole absent on one side, reduced to a minute loop at base of 7, 8, 9 on the other. 5936. Eulocastra ochrizona, n. sp. (Plate CLXYII. fig. 19.) ] 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with white ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing fuscous browu suffused with purplish grey ; a broad yellowish white antemedial bajid with a dark point on it at costa, its inner edi;e angled in- wards below the cell, its outer edge incurved in cell and sub- median fold; traces of an oblique red-brown line from costa beyond middle to tornus, with a yellovrish white patch beyond it on costa and slightly defined by yellowish white at discocellulars where it is somewhat incurved : subtermiual line formed of yel- lowish white scales, angled outwards at vein 7 and oijsolete below submedian fold. Hind wing grey suffused with purplish brown ; the underside whitish tinged with brown. Bab. Arabia, Unseat (Jayakar), 1 J fyp^- Exp. IS millim. 5937. Eulocastra melsena. Tarache melcsTM, Hmpsn. Bull. Lirerp. Museum, ii. p. 3(3 (1899); id. j!Sat, Hist. Sjkotra, p. 3:^4, pi. xx. ff. 9, lO. 2 . Head and thorax black-brown, the former with a gre\ ish tinge: pectus and legs with some whitish ; abdom
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