298 NOCTUID®, 
by dark brown on inner side, minutely waved, excurved below 
costa and at middle ; a fine blackish terminal line slightly defined 
by grey on inner side. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen 
narrowly reddish brown. 
Hub. Mavras, Belgaum (Watson), 1 § ; Ceyton, Colombo (Green), 
1g type. Hwp. 20 millim. 
6593. Selepa celtis. 
Selepa celtis, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 353, pl. 16. ff. 8, 8a (1858); id. Lep. 
Ceyl. iii. p. 103, pl. 158. f. 5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 370. 
Subrita curviferella, Wik. xxxy. 1745 (1866). 
Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; fore tarsi ringed with black- 
ish ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, Fore wing grey suffused 
with red-brown, an oblique purplish fuscous shade from postmedial 
part of inner margin where it extends from antemedial line to 
tornus ; antemedial line indistinct, curved, a ridge of black scales 
beyond it from subcostal nervyure to vein 1; a smal tuft of black 
scales at middle of cell and discoidal bar-shaped tuft ; postmedial 
line double, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then in- 
curved, below submedian fold waved and with two tufts of raised 
Fig. 105.—selepa celtis, $. 3, 
scales on it, crossed by fine black streaks above and below vein 2 ; 
subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous brown 
except towards costa, minutely waved, incurved below vein 3 and 
with tuft of raised scales on it above tornus; a fine black terminal 
line. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with diffused black patch in, below, and beyond 
lower end of cell. 
Hab. N. Ixvia (Hearsey), 2 2 type; Punsas, Almorah (Boys), 
1 Q type curviferella, Manpuri, 1 2 ; Assam, Nagas; Beneau 
(ltussell), 1 9, Caleutta,3 g, 19; Bomsay (Swinhoe), 2 2, Mhow 
(Swinhoe), 2 2 ; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 9 ; Crrton, 2 Q; 
Purtiprines, Luzon; Java (Horsfield), 1 g, 2 9 ; QueEnstanD, 
Townsville (Dodd), 1 9. HEwp, 20-24 millim. 
Larva. Semper, Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 529, pl. Q, ff. 12-14, 
Yellow; head black; dorsal black patches on Sth, 10th, and 11th 
somites; a lateral reddish line with series of black spots ; hairs 
long and sparse ; forms a cocoon covered with fixces. 
