368 



2196. Ariola ccelisigna, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 769 ; C. $ 8. no. 1789. 



Head and thorax pale green ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 bright green, with a curved sil- 

 very-white fascia from the base 

 to apex ; the outer margin pink, 

 with black marginal marks and 

 line. Hind wing fuscous. 



&ab. Ceylon; Borneo. Eaep. 

 22 millim. 



Fig. m. Ariola ccelisigna, rf. {. 



Genus NOLASENA. 

 Nolasena, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 981 (1857). 



Type, N. ferrifervens, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon; Burma. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint fringed with hair above, the 3rd 

 acute at apex ; antennas minutely ciliated. Eore wing with the 

 apex slightly acute ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the 

 areole. 



2197. Nolasena ferrifervens, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 982 j C. $ S. no. 2924. 



Chestnut- or grey-brown. Fore wing with two parallel oblique 

 antemedial scarlet lines, with a silvery 



/ baud between them ; a waved post- 

 ./ medial oblique scarlet line, with black 



^ /^ outer edge and a silvery band beyond it ; 



jj^ some white specks on costa towards 



apex ; a marginal series of black and 

 red specks. 

 \. The Burmese form is much darker 



Fig. 202. 

 Nolasena ferrifervens, <$. 



than the Ceylon one, with the scarlet lines narrower. 

 Hob. Ceylon ; Bangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus PLOTHEIA. 



Plotheia. Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1108 (1857). 



E^elesta, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1747 (1858). 



Galleriomorpha, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi, p. 37, note (1862). 



Othora. Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 902 (1865). 



Selepa, Moore, Lep. E.I. C. p. 353 (1858). 



Type, P. decrescens, Wlk. 



llartge. Sikhim ; throughout Continental India ; Ceylon ; Java. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, 

 the 3rd porrect and long, the frontal tuft long ; antennae heavily 

 ciliated in male ; thorax and abdomen without tufts : fore tibiaB 

 heavily tufted with hair. Eore wing with the outer margin some- 



