. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CALLCEGIA. ERYTHRiEClA. Oi a diflfiised blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial lino indistinct, double, dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterrainal line with brownish patch at costa, then indistinct and minutely waved. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad fuscous terminal band; cilia yellow mixed with brown ; the underside yellow slightly irrorated wilh black, the costal and terminal areas tinged with red, a slight discoidal lunule, diffused
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CALLCEGIA. ERYTHRiEClA. Oi a diflfiised blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial lino indistinct, double, dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterrainal line with brownish patch at costa, then indistinct and minutely waved. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad fuscous terminal band; cilia yellow mixed with brown ; the underside yellow slightly irrorated wilh black, the costal and terminal areas tinged with red, a slight discoidal lunule, diffused curved medial line, minutely waved postmedial line and indistinct diifused sub- terminal baud. Hab. Bombay, Asirgarh (SwinJwe), 1 5 type. Poena [SivinJioe), 1 c? , 3 2 . 26-30 millim. Genus ERYTHRCECIA, nov. Type, E. suai'is. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of Irons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antennje of male laminate, almost simple; thorax clothed vvith hair only and without distinct crests ; tibia; 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 theai-eole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 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 band; hind wing with the apical area snffused with brown surivis. B. Fore wing with the whole postmedial area pink ; hind wing almost wholly suffused with brown , rhodcq^hora. *4360. Erythrcecia suavis. Hdioihis suavis, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 45 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. (S . Head, front half of thorax, a patch on metathorax, and tib
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