110 



AKCTIAD.t. 



A. Fore winff with oranpo patches vagiviffa. 



13. Fore wing iiiiiforiii bl;ick-bro«-n auranfk-cps. 



204. Chrysoscota vag^vitta. 



LithoKia Vfigirif/,1, Wlk. xxxv. 18.S4 (18(U5): Swinh. Cat. Het. Miis. Oxon. 

 p. 127, pi. iii. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 332. 



lilack-brown ; head, tegulae, and base of patagia orange : palpi at 

 tips, anteniifc, and patches on frons and vertex of head black ; legs 

 orange and fuscous ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface 



Fig. 51. — Chrysoscota vagivitta, S . \. 



orange. Fore wing shot with purple ; a wedge-shaped orange patch 

 in and below cell from base to before middle ; an elliptical spot in 

 end of cell, with an oblique spot below its extremit)' ; a short post- 

 medial streak below costa. 



Hah. !MrsoL (Wallace), 1 S type; Ceram ; S.W. Xew Guinea, 

 Kapaur (Doherty), 3 c^ , 2 $ . E.vp. 22 millim. 



205. Chrysoscota auranticeps, u. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) 



Head orange ; palpi at tips and antennae brown ; tegulte and base 

 of patagia orange ; thorax and abdomen black-brown, with slight 

 purple gloss, the greater pait of legs, extremity and ventral surface 

 of abdomen orange. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish gloss ; 

 an orange streak at base of costa. Hiud wing black-brown. 



Hah. X. GnxEA, Fergusson I., 1 (5 , 1 $ (Meek), type. Exjy., 

 d 26, 2 30 millim. 



Genus NISHADA. 



Tvpp. 



Nhhadfi, Muore, V. Z. S. 1878, p. 23 flahrifern. 



Pdalopleura, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 458 impervia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porreit, reaching just beyond frons, the 

 2nd joint fringed with hair below ; Irons rounded ; antennre of male with long 

 cilia and bristles, the sliaft usually tliickened with scales above towards base; 

 tibioe with the spurs siiort ; abdomen with slight lateral tufts on 1st segment, 

 the 2nd segment almost bare of scales above in male. Fore wing rather short 

 and broad, the costa highly arched ; vein 2 oblique from well before angle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absei.t ; 6 from or from below upper angle ; 7 from 8 

 after 9 ; 10 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12; male with a large patch of 

 naked ridged membrane on innn- area, the inner margin fringed with hair. 

 Hind wing of male usually witli costal fold fringed with large scales from ne; r 

 base to beyond iiiii\lle ; vein 2 from close to angle of cell and closely approxi- 

 mated to 3, 4, whicli are ci incident ; 5 absent; (>, 7 coincident and strongly 

 downcurvrd ; 8 from middle of cell; female usually with vein 2 from long 

 before angle of cell ; 3, 4 and tJ, 7 strongly stalked. 



