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fuscous , tegulfe and shoulders with diffused black band. Fore 

 wing grey irroratcd with black and tinged with fuscous brown 

 especially on terminal area ; the basal half of costal area dark ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, waved, closely approximated to the pro- 

 minent oblique black medial line which is diffused on inner side ; 

 postmedial line very indistinct, minutely dentate ; subterminal line 

 hardly traceable, somewhat cxcurvcd below costa and at middle. 

 Hind wing brownish white. Underside of fore wing and costal 

 half of hind wing suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea., Ekeikei, 1500' {Pratt), type t$ in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 30 millim. 



118 a. Kceselia mesotherma, n. sp. (Plate XXIV. fig. 23.) 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen white; antenna} brownish; pectus 

 and legs tinged with brown. Fore wing white, the basal costal 

 area and terminal area at middle irrorated with brown, the medial 

 area suffused with ochreous brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark brown except at inner margin ; an indistinct curved diffused 

 ochreous brown antemedial line ; an ochreous brown patch at middle 

 of costa defined on each side, by white, the costa beyond it ochreous 

 brown with white points to the subterminal line ; postmedial line 

 only defined by the contrast between the medial and postmedial 

 areas, evenly curved ; subterminal line white defined on inner side 

 by ochreous brown suffusion, excurved and slightly waved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and excurved above inner margin. Hind wing 

 white irrorated with ochreous brown. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused and irrorated with brown ; hind wing with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with ochreous brown, and with slight 

 discoidal point. 



Hah. C. Chixa, Chungking {W. B. Brown), 1 J type. Exp. 

 10 millim. 



*122a. Rceselia niveicosta. (Plate XXIV. fig. 24.) 



Rceselia niveiconta , Scliaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 195 (1905). 



J . Head and thorax white irrorated with rufous ; palpi with 

 some fuscous at sides ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing white 

 thickly irrorated with rufous leaving the costal area whiter except 

 the base of costal edge, the irroration below costal area darker; faint 

 traces of a pale antemedial line towards inner margin ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, pale, slightly excurved from costa to vein 3, then 

 slightly incurved ; the subterminal line similar. Hind wing white 

 with a slight yellowish tinge. Underside of fore wing with the 

 costal half brown, the inner half whitish; hind wing with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type f 6 in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. Exp. 22 millim. 



