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122. Roeselia causta. n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale and dark red-brown ; vortex 

 of head white ; abdomen dorsally tinged with fuscous on terminal 

 half. Fore wing suffused with rufous to the postmedial line and on 

 termen ; a greyish and fuseous streak below basal half of costa : 

 the autemedial line very indistinct, double, and strongly excurved 

 at middle : a medial line incurved to costa and angled inwards to 

 lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, excurved from 

 costa to vein 2, where it is angled inwards, then approximated to 

 the medial line, the area beyond it white to the irregularly dentate 

 subteruiinal blue-grey line, which is bent inwards to costa and 

 slij^htly defined by white on outer side. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown especially on terminal half; traces of a curved post- 

 medial line. 



Jfith. Bolivia, Rio Songo, Chaco {Garlepp), 1 S type. E.vp. 

 20 millim. 



123. Rceselia hermana. (Plate XX. fig. 2.) 



Nola hermana, Scli.ius, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 1.52 (1896). 



Head and teguhv rufous ; thorax grey ; abdomen bro-wnish. 

 Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a large triangular 

 rufous patch on middle of costa, extending down to submedian fold 

 and along costa to base ; the tufts of scales near base and at middle 

 and upper angle of cell rather small ; the ante- and postmedial 

 lines double, indistinct, the former excurved in and below cell, then 

 oblique to inner margin near base, the latter strongly excurved 

 between veins 5 and 3 and angled on vein 1, and with traces of a 

 dentate line on its inner side; a blackish streak on median nervure; 

 a subterminal series of black streaks on the veins connected by a 

 very indistinct irregularly dentate line. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused with fuscous towards termen, almost wholly suftused in 

 female ; vein 3 absent or from 4 just before termen. 



HoJ). Mexico, Jalapa ; Brazil, Sao Paulo, type f in Coll. Schaus ; 

 Rio Janeiro, 2 d" . Exp., J 20, $ 24 millim. 



124. Roeselia cuneifera. 



Melia cuneifera, VsW. xxxii. 338 (1865); Svvinh. Cat. Het. Mu3. Oxon. 



p. 132, pi. 4. f. 22. 

 Seka ruj'wostata, Ilinpsn. Moths Ind. iv. i). 507 (1896) ; Dudgeon, J. Bomb. 



N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 13. 



Grey and strongly irrorated with fuscous; head and tegulge 

 ferruginous ; abdomen tijiged with ferruginous. Fore \\dng with 

 the costal half suttused with ferruginous to beyond middle, ex- 

 ])anding as a triangular patch to lower angle of cell ; tufts of scales 

 near base and at middle and upper and lower angles of cell ; traces 

 of an antemedial line acutely angled in submedian fold ; the post- 

 medial line black, angled below costa and on vein 5, then oblique ; 



