. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ERYTHRiECIA. 5/ a difFused blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line with brownish patch at costa, then indistinct and minutely waved. Hind wing orange-yellow wilh hroad fuscous terminal band; cilia yellow mixed with brown ; the underside yellow slightly irrorated with black, the costal and terminal areas tinged with red, a slight discoidal lunule, difFused
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ERYTHRiECIA. 5/ a difFused blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line with brownish patch at costa, then indistinct and minutely waved. Hind wing orange-yellow wilh hroad fuscous terminal band; cilia yellow mixed with brown ; the underside yellow slightly irrorated with black, the costal and terminal areas tinged with red, a slight discoidal lunule, difFused curved medial line, minutely waved postmedial line and indistinct dilfused sub- terminal band. Hah. Bombay, Asirgarh (Sivinhoe), 1 2 type, Poona (SivinJioe), 1 c? , 3 $ . Kcp. 26-30 millim. Genus ERYTHRCECIA, nov. Type, E. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; f'rons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antennje of male laminate, almost simple; thorax clothed with hair only and without distinct crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, i from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing without pink beyond the postmedial baud; bind wing with the apical area suffused with brown suavis. B. Fore wing with the whole postmedial area pink ; hind wing almost wholly suffused with brown , rhodophora. *4360. Erythrcecia suavis. Heliothis suavis, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 45 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. d". Head, front half of thorax, a patch on metathoras,
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