RCESELIA. 71 



medial line excurvt'd from costa to vein 3, then incurved and obsolete 

 towards inner margin ; vein 4 absent, .3 t'roni above angle of cell. 



Hab. Madagascar, Betsileo (C'ow.ot), i $ . J^^^''£- ^^ miilim. 

 Type t $ in (Joll. tStaudinger. 



145. Rceselia inetaleuca, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 28.) 



cJ . Head white; antennte brownish; palpi tinged with black at 

 sides; thorax and abdomen grey tinged with brown. Pore wing 

 grey tinged with brown, the costal area suffused with white ; an 

 elongate black patch at base of costa and a small triangular 

 patch on middle ; the autemedial line evenly curved ; traces o^ a 

 medial line ; the postmedial line punctiform, strongly excurved from 

 below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; an irregular subtcrminal line 

 bent inwards to costa ; a slight termnial series of points. Hind 

 wing pure white, with slight discoidal point and traces of pustmedial 

 line, ihe termen tinged with brown. 



Hab. Bolivia, Chaco {Garlei)p), 1 S type. Ex£. 24 miilim. 



146. Eceselia gigantula. (Plate XX. fig. 29.) 



Nola gigantula, Stgr. Hor. See. Eut. Eoss. xiv. p. 328 (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. '6'to. 

 ^'ola gigus, itutl. A. M. N. H. (5) xiii. p. 274 (,1884) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. o'i'd. 



Grey, entirely suffused with fuscous brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; legs black, the tarsi ringed with white. Eore wing irrorated 

 with black scales; a large tuft of black scales at middle of cell, and 

 smaller tutts near base and at upper angle ; the autemedial line 

 indistinct, excurved at middle ; the postmedial line excurved from 

 below costa to vein 3, angled inwards on vein 2 and outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a very indistinct dentate subtermiual line. Hind wing- 

 dark fuscous ; underside with discoidal spot ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Huh. Amasia, 1 S '■, Japan, Xezo (Fri/er), 1 § , type c/i^as. E,V2^. 

 34 miilim. Typef in Coll. iStaudiuger. 



*147. Rceselia ascripta. (Plate XX. fig. 30.) 



Selca ascrvjita, Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 147 (1894). 



J . Head black and white ; palpi black ; antennae brown, blackish 

 towards base; thorax and abdomen grey, tegulie black in front. 

 Eore wing grey, the costa fuscous to middle, where it ends in u 

 large ditiused tuscous patch extending to the subterminal line and 

 to a slightly oblique fuscous fascia from lower angle of cell to 

 termen ; the tufts of scales rather small ; the lines very indistinct, 

 the antemedial line angled in cell, then obli<iue ; the postmedial 

 line angled at vein 5, then oblique ; the subterminal line more 

 distinct, irregularly sinuous, retracted to costa and angled inwards 

 at veins U and 2 ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pulo 



