KCESELIA. 6a 



side; traces of an irregular subfcerraiaal line. Hind Vting dark 

 iuscous. 



$ paler ; the thorax and patch oa inner area of fore wing 

 whiter. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane. Type f S ^ in Coll. Tanur. 

 Exp., S 18, ? i^t; millim. 



131. Eceselia strigula. 



Noctua strk/ula, Den. & Scliiff. Syst. Verz. Wien, p. 69 (1776); Esp. 

 • Scbmett. Suppl. iii. p. 52, pi. Sy. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. Scbmett. Eur., Pyr. 



f. 16 ; Dup. Lep. h\: viii. (2) p. 267, ff. 4, 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Schiaett. 



Eur. ii. p. 163, f. 137 ; Stand. Cat. p. 51 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 373. 

 Pyndis monachalis. Haw. Le23. Brit. \). 386 (1812). 

 Isola lineolalis, Ev. Faun. V olg. & Ur. p. 474 (1844) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 373. 



Grey tinged witli brown ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wiug 

 irrorated with blackish scales ; the tufts near base and at middle 

 and iip])er angle of cell rather large ; ante- and postmedial dentate 

 black lines, the former incurved above vein 1, the latter strongly 

 bent outwards from below costa to vein 3; a blackish spot ou 

 middle of costa ; a diffused irregularly dentate subtermiual black 

 line with some black streaks on the veins ; short black streaks on 

 the veins at termen. Hind wing fuscous ; veins 3, 4 strongly 

 stalked. 



Hub. England ; Ireland ; France ; Germany, Zell. and Frey 

 Colls. ; Sweden ; Livonia ; Italy ; Dalma'xia ; Turkey ; Eithynia. 

 Exp. 20-28 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 34 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 186, pi. C^r,. f. 2. 



Pale ochreons, sometimes pink-tinged ; hairs pale brownish or 

 yellowish, some towards extremities very long ; dorsal line broad, 

 yellowish, fuscous-edged; subdorsal line fuscous, interrupted; a 

 blackish-grey blotch on somite 6. Food-plant, Oak ; 8-6. 



Cocoon boat-shaped, formed of silk covered by fragments of the 

 bark of food-plant. 



132. Rceselia pygmaea, u. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 8.) 



Head and thorax grey-white ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing white irrorated with brown ; small tufts of 

 scales near base and at middle and upper angle of cell, the two 

 latter leaden fuscous ; the antemedial blackish line dentate and 

 angled outwards below cell and inwards on vein 1 ; a small blackish 

 triangular mark at middle of costa ; the postmedial line fine, black, 

 obtusely angled at vein 5, then oblique, an indistinct fine dentate 

 line on its inner side ; an ill defined dentate subterminal line with 

 some black points on the veins and strongly retracted to costa ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards 

 base ; vein 4 absent. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 § type; Castro Parana, J in 

 Coll. Schaus. Exp. 16 millim. 



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