. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 494 NOCTTJIDJi;. 5742. Erastroides oliviaria. Erastroides oliviaria, Hmpsn. III. Het. B. M. ix. p. 99, pi. 162. f. 23 (1893); id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 303. S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with blackish; fore tibise and tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous, the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double blackish strias from costa filled in with ochreous ; antemedial line double filled in with ochreous,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 494 NOCTTJIDJi;. 5742. Erastroides oliviaria. Erastroides oliviaria, Hmpsn. III. Het. B. M. ix. p. 99, pi. 162. f. 23 (1893); id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 303. S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with blackish; fore tibise and tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous, the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double blackish strias from costa filled in with ochreous ; antemedial line double filled in with ochreous, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform slightly defined by blackish at extremity ; orbicular slightly defined by blackish, round ; reniform with slight whitish annulus faintly defined by blackish, elliptical; medial line represented by a dark bar from costa and faint oblique sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely. Fig. 147.—Erastroides oliviaria, c?. |. waved, excurved to vein 5, then oblique, some white points with short black streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7, oblique betAveen veins 6 and 4, then obsolete ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia with a blackish line at middle, the tips fuscous and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, a terminal series of dark strise ; cilia with a dark line at middle; the underside whitish tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, curved, minutely waved postmedial line, and terminal series of minute lunules. $ . Fore wing more rufous and less suffused with black except on costal half of antemedial area, inner medial area, and before costal part of subterminal line, a black patch in cell between orbicular and reniform. Hah. Ceylon, 1 S , Pundaloya (G^r^m), 1 S , Dickoya (Green), 1 c? ,
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