O'J ARCTIAD-K. 



Seit. I. Ahtenuee of male bi pectinate, the apical fourth simple. 



A. {Surbfiiu). TofTuhv lu'ld projecting forward so ns to form a 

 hood over tlie head. 



a. Fore wing witli oblique dark fascia from termen below 



apex, widening to middle of inner margin foia. 



b. Fore wing with longitudinal dark streaks lignifera. 



105. Kceselia fola. (Plate XIX. fig. 24.) 



Troncca fola, Swinh. Tran=i. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 194; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 555. 



<S . Head and thorax ochreous mixed witli Lrown ; abdomen 

 \\liitish tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with 

 re(l-l)rown ; a dark brown fascia on costal area; a slightly carved 

 dark Une from lermon below apex to middle of inner margin, with 

 a diffused dark brown fascia on its inner side widening towards 

 inner margin, on which it extends almost to base ; a subtcrminal 

 line obsolescent and retracted towards costa, angled at vein 5, then 

 oblique and broad. Hind wing whitish ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



$ . Hind wing fuscous. 



JJab. Ceylox, Colombo (Mac/iwood), 1 <S ; Burma, Thyetmyo, 1 2 

 type. Evp., (S 22, 2 ^-^ millim. 



106. Rceselia lignifera. 



Surboia lignifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 137 (18rr2). 

 C'yphofopsyche ustipennis, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 297 ; Moths 

 Ind. iv. p. 506. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with blackish brown ; 



palpi blackish ; tegulae with 

 two black bands. Pore wing 

 brown; the tufts of scales 

 rather small ; a blackish fascia 

 on costa ; the postmcdial line 

 fine, black, very strongly ex- 

 curvcd from below costa to 



Fig. lJ--ff^/^;;« liff^fcra c?. }. .-ein 3 tben very acutely angled 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. IV.) . ', . -, ,. ■' ?,, 



inwards in submcdian tola, 



vith a streak from its angle to inner margin near base, then acutely 



angled outwards above vein 1 ; a blackish patch on outer margin 



below apex ; a streak in discal fold from beyond postmedial line to 



cell and on vein 5 from termen to postmedial line. Hind wing 



fuscous, paler towards inner margin in male ; veins 4, 5 stalked. 



Ifah. BnoTAN (Dxth/eon), 1 cJ , type t(stipennis; Bombay Pres., 

 Mhow (i''o/-.w_;/^'^), 1 2> CErr.0N, Hambantota, 1 2 {l^ole); Borneo, 

 Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 (S type t in Mus. Oxon. E.vp. 22-20 millim. 



Larva. Early stages : creamy buff, with dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 sublateral series of small warts bearing tufts of long buff hair ; four 

 pairs of prologs, the 6th somite without prologs ; the cast skins of 

 the head are attached to a long tuft of hair projecting forward 

 from 1st somite, the number of moults being known by the number 



