422 AECTIADiE. 



100 a. Pcecilonola ochritincta. (Plate XXIV. fig. 18.) 



Pcecilonola ochritincta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 178 (1901). 



8 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi, antennae, and legs 

 fuscous. Fore wing with the basal area white tinged with ochreous, 

 its outer edge oblicpie from costa befoi'e middle to tornus ; short 

 dark streaks on and below vein 1 just beyond middle ; the apical 

 half greyish fuscous with a diffused whitish patch extending from 

 apex to discocellulars ; some minute white specks on apical half of 

 costa ; an obscure irregularly trisinuate subterminal whitish line 

 with some rufous on its inner side and a tuft of black scales below 

 vein 3. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous. 



Sab. Ceylon, Haputale (Machwood), 1 8 type, Matale {Pole), 

 1 8 • Exp. 10 millim. 



Under RCESELIA, insert :— 



Type. 



Acatapaustus, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 415 (1904) basifusca. 



105. Eceselia fola. 



Larva, de Niceville, Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 109, pi. x. f . 1 ; Piepers, 

 Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 139. 



Clothed with long fluffy white hair thicker and longer anteriorly 

 and posteriorly; head dark brown; the cast skins of heads of earlier 

 stages carried one above each other on the matted hairs of 1st 

 somite ; anterior pair of prolegs absent, one young larva with four 

 head-skins pale ochreous. Food-plant, Almond. 



Cocoon irregularly triangular, formed of fragments of the brown 

 veins of the leaves mixed with silk on the underside of a leaf and 

 capped by a bunch of white fluff. 



Piepers describes the larva in Java as covered with grey hair. 



100. Rceselia lignifera, insert (syn.) : — 

 Chionsema lignaria, Boths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 192 (1913). 



Br. N. Guinea, Mambare 11., Biagi (Meek), type f in Coll. 

 Kothschild. 



Laroa. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 140, pi. x. f. 2. 



106*7. Rceselia intermedia. 



Nolo intermedia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 140 (1885). 



Fore wing with vein 7 from 8 beyond 10 ; male with a groove 

 in end of cell on underside. 



8 . Head and thorax white ; palpi black at base ; antenna 1 

 brownish; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing white 



