. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 581 3448. Eriopns leucobasis, n. sp. Head and thorax purple-brown mixed wifcli some white and black scales ; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; frons white with lateral black bars ; tegulae with blackish lines at base, middle and tips ; spurs tipped with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown leaving whitish segmental bands, the crest on 3rd segment black. Pore wing ochreous whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with dark purple-brown; su
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 581 3448. Eriopns leucobasis, n. sp. Head and thorax purple-brown mixed wifcli some white and black scales ; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; frons white with lateral black bars ; tegulae with blackish lines at base, middle and tips ; spurs tipped with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown leaving whitish segmental bands, the crest on 3rd segment black. Pore wing ochreous whitish almost entirely suffused and irrorated with dark purple-brown; subbasal line represented by double blackish striae from costa and cell; aiitemedial line very indistinct, blackish, interrupted, with black line before it from submedian fold to inner. Fig. 143.—Eriopus leucobasis, J. f. margin ; orbicular a small indistinct whitish spot; reniform indis- tinctly defined by whitish, narrow and with white points beyond its lower extremity ; a diffused oblique waved blackish line from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish with white striga at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line strong, white and dentate from costa to vein 6, oblique and yellowish to vein 4, then blackish, waved, with gmall whitish spot beyond it below vein 3; a terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner side by some white scales; a line yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing with the basal half yellowish white, the terminal half purple-browna ; cilia chequered yellowish white and brown ; the underside white irrorated with purple-brown except on basal half of inner area, a black discoidal spot, diffused purple-brown medial band, black postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, then crenulate, incurved and obsolescent below vein 3, a terminal series of black spots from apex to vein 5. Hah. Assam, Khasis; Ceylok, Kandy {Green)
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