ECESELIA, — ZIA. lO 



terminal line. Hind wing tinged, with fuscou?, especially towards 

 iipex. 



J/ab. Tibet, Moupin ; Assam, Khjisis, 1 d' • ^•»^i>- 28 millim. 



155. Rceselia discisignata. (Plate XX. fig, 33.) 



Pisara discisignata, Hmpsn. Muths Iiicl. iv. p. 6U4 (1896). 



cj . Head, tegulae, and abdomen brownish white ; palpi blackish ; 

 thorax grey-white. Fore wing grey-white, with very small tufts of 

 scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; the basal half of 

 costal area pale brownish, with blackish mark at base; the aute- 

 and postmedial lines erect, sinuous, black, with the ground-colour 

 between them brown, traversed by an obscure waved blackish 

 medial line, the postmedial line excurved round a very prominent 

 black reuiform stigma ; the terminal area suffused with brown and 

 fuscous, with an obscure irregularly sinuous subtermiual line. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Hambantota, Puttalam {Pole), 4 S , type. Exi>. 

 14 millim. 



Genus ZIA. „ 



Type. 



Zia, Wlk. xxvii. 109 (186.3), ncc Koch, Crust. (1834), nou descr.... tactuiis. 



Aquita, Wlk. xxvii. 2UU (1863) tactalit:. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect, tbe 2ud joint roughly scaled above 

 and below; niasillary palpi uiiuute ; frons with tult of scales ; anteni te of male 

 ciliated, fasciculate, the basal joint without tult of scales ; tibiaj with tbe spurs 

 long. Fore wing with vein 3 iVom before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 

 6 frum below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; lt», 11 from cell. Hind m iug vvith 

 veins .3, 4 stalked ; 5 from just abG\e angle of cell or near middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Palpi projecting about twice the length of head ; fore wing elongate, 

 the costa arched at base, the apex pioduced. 



156. Zia tactalis. 



Zia tactalis, Wlk. xxvii. 110 (1863). 

 Aquita horridella, Wlk. xxvii. 200 (1863). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey slightly tinged with brown ; 

 palpi brown at sides ; outer edge of tegulae brown ; metathorax with 

 large tuft of brown scales ; abdomen with dorsal tuft of brown 

 scales on first segment. Fore wing grey, suffused with brown in 

 parts, especially on basal area above the submedian fold and in ceil ; 

 a blackish streak in cell and basal half of submedian fold, with a 

 diffused white fascia below the latter, with a sliglit black streak 

 below its extremity ; the tufts of scales dark ; a tuft in submedian 

 fold near origin of vein 2, the indistinct antemedial line running 

 obliquely to it ; a white mark on discocellulars and streaks on bases 

 of veins 4, 5 ; the postmedial lino arising from middle of costa, very 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then punctiform and acutely 



