NYCTEOLIN^. 133 



619. Selca distritauta. 



Lyclene distributa. Walker: Journ. Linn. Soc, Lond., vi. p. 113 (1862). 



xxxi. 247 (1865). 



Type. Sarawak, Borneo, in B. M. 

 a. Sarawak (Wallace). 



620. Selca obsciira : n. sp. 



3 Of a uniform obscure greyish colour above and below, antennas 

 with brown brandies. Fore-wings sparsely irrorated with dark 

 brown atoms, a brown thin band on the costa on half its length from 

 the base, and some obscure transverse brown lines mostly in out- 

 ward curves, a short one from the costa near the base and three 

 rather close together in the middle, crossing the wing in dislocated 

 outward curves, a spot in the middle line at the end of the cell, 

 another in the first complete line within the cell, and a spot between 

 them. Hind-wings without markings, as is also the underside 

 except for a spot at the end of the cell in the hind-wings, body 

 below whitish, legs brown above, whitish beneath. 



Expanse of wings ^ inch. 

 a. Queensland (type). 



Sub-Family. NYCTEOLINtE. 



Genus EARIAS, Hiibner: Verz. Schm., p. 395 (18 16). 

 Aphusia. Walker: xxii. 769 (1857). 

 Digba. Walker : xxxiii. 774 (1865). 



621. Eariaa insulana. 



Tortrix insulana. Boisd. : Faune Ent. Madag., p. 121, pi. 16, f. 9 (1833). 

 Ckophora insula. Boisd. : Guen. Notes, Bourbon, Maillard, ii. G, p. 39 



(1833). 

 Earias insulana. Rogenhofer : Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, xx. p. 869 

 (1870). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 85. 500 



(18S7). 

 Earias smaragdijiana. Zeller (nee Walker) : Lep. Mic. W^ahlb. Caffr., 



p. 79 (1852). 

 Earias frondosana. W'alker; xxvii. 204 (except var. B) (1863). 



Swinhoe : P. Z. S., Lond., 18S4, p. 528. 



P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, P- 880. 



Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., vi. p. 14, pi. 105, 



f. I (1886). 



Hampson : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., viii. 3. 74 



(1891). 

 Earias simillitjta. Walker: xxxv. p. 1775 (1866). 



Swinhoe: P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, p. 880. 



Earias siliquana. Stainton : Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., (iii.) v. p. 89 



(1S65-67). 

 Earias gossypii. Fraucnfcld : Veih. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wicn, xvii. p. 791 

 (1867). 



