FLETCliEE— LEPIDOPTERA. 305 



thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Legs greyish, slightly irrorated w ith fuscous ; foreleg 

 without spurs on tibia, but with tuft of hair-scales on first tarsal joint. 



Fore wing rather dark fuscous ; a short transverse pale yellowish subhasal striga not 

 reaching costa or dorsum ; an indistinct transverse yellowish costal suffusion a little 

 before ^ ; a conspicuous quadrate yellowish-white spot in cell a little before ^ of wing- 

 length, preceded and followed by a patch of blackish scales ; a yellowish spot on costa 

 at f , prolonged into a yellowish-white transverse line, straight from costa to vein 5, bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and 2, then sharply retracted inwards to lower angle of cell, 

 thence bent transversely downwards to dorsum : cilia dark fuscous. 



Hind wing dark fuscous, -yellowish towards base and along costa ; a blackish cellular 

 spot and pale-yellowish postmedial line ; a blackish terminal line : cilia dark fuscous. 



Seychelles. — A single example taken in Praslin in November 1905, by Mr. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner. 



124. Nacoleia vulgalis, Gn. 



Botys vulgalis, Gueuee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 203, t. 6. f. 8. 



Nacoleia vulgalis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. 315. 



Nacoleia indicata, Joaiinis, Bull. Soc. Eut. France, 1899, p. 197. 



Seychelles. — Four specimens ; three from Mahe {de Gaye) and one from St. Anne Isld. 

 on 26 October, 1905. Of these four examples one belongs to the typical bright yellow 

 form, one is of a very dull yellow colour, and the other two are almost entirely suffused 

 with blackish-fuscous. 



Distribution. — W. Indies ; S. America ; throughout Africa ; Seychelles (Mahe, 

 St. Anne) ; throughout India ; Burma ; Ceylou ; Andamans ; Java ; Singapore ; 

 W. China. 



125. Nacoleia chagosalis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 9.) 



6 . Exp. 20 mm. Labial palpi light brown, white beneath, very thickly scaled, 

 upturned, reaching vertex ; second joint broadly angled with scales ; terminal joint 

 short and concealed by long scaling. Haustellum well developed, scaled basally. 

 Antennae finely ciliated, without tuft of scales at middle. Patagia ^vith tuft of hair 

 extending beyond metathorax. 



Fore wing very pale ochreous-yellow ; basal half of costa suffused with fuscous ; a 

 transverse blackish spot in disc at \ is produced to dorsum as an ill-defined outwardly- 

 oblique line ; a blackish dot in cell a.t \; a blackish transvei'se discocellular spot ; a 

 blackish undulated line commences below the costa and runs towards tornus as far as 

 vein 4, where it is retracted inwards to a position below the discocellular spot and runs 

 hence to dorsum as an outwai-dly-curved arch. Interspaces of uervures suffused with 

 fuscous on termen especially towards tornus. Teraien sliglitly suffused with fuscous, 

 broadly so towards costa. Cilia concolorous with fore wing, on termen paler apically 

 and suffused with fuscous medially. 



Hind wing coloured as fore wing, but whitish costally to before apex ; a blackish discal 

 spot at ^ ; a blackish postmedial line at f, commencing as a spot below vein (5, then 



juJ U I B R A R 



