ARCELA. 147 



GENUS ARBELA. 



Arhela^ Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 411; id., 

 Lepid. Ceylon, ii., p. 155 (1883); Hampson, Faun. Brit. 

 Ind. Moths, i., p. 314 (1892.) 



In this genus the legs and body are hairy, and the 

 long abdomen is moderately stout, and strongly tufted at 

 the extremity. In the hind-wings the costal and sub-costal 

 nervures are connected l)y a crcss-nervule before the middle. 



ARBELA QUADRINOTATA. 

 {Plate CXXIV., Fig. 4.) 



Cossiis (?) qiiadrinotatiis, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. INIus. 



vii., p. 1521 (1856). 

 Arbda quadrinotata, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii., p. 155, pi. 



143, fig. 3 (1883); Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, 



i., p. 314 (1892). 

 Cossus abruptus, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxxii., 



p. 584(1865). 



This species inhabits India and Ceylon, and the female 

 expands an inch and a half, and the male somewhat less. The 

 male is brown, with yellowish-grey fore-wings, with numerous 

 reddish-brown transverse dashes arranged in irregular rows; 

 those between the base and the end of the cell, and some 

 towards the base below the cell, being larger, and darker 

 brown ; the hind-wings are blackish, with grey fringes, spotted 

 with brown. 



The female is grey, darker on the hind-wings, and flecked on 

 all the wings with brown, the largest spots extending from tlie 

 middle of the base of the fore-wings towards the hinder angle. 



