scoltosta. 453 



Genus SCOLIOSIA. nov. 



Type, S. brunnescens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender ; frons smooth ; antenna} 

 of male with bristles and cilia ; tibia? with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair, the anal tuft and claspers lai'ge. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen obliquely curved, the costa of male with fold on medial 

 area on upperside ; vein 1 bent upwards at middle and connected with 2 by a 

 bar ; the subcostal and median nervures approximated to origin of vein 2 

 which arises well before end of cell and is curved towards base, then the 

 median nervure curved upwards ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 absent ; the 

 discocellulars oblique; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 from angle of cell; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 12 ; male with ridges of hair on subcostal and median nervures 

 and a patch of black androconia hi and below end of cell. Hind wing with 

 the basal half of costa strongly lobed and fringed with black scales at 

 extremity, the apical part truncate to vein 4, a patch of androconia in cell on 

 upperside and fringe of hair below base of costa on underside ; vein 2 from 

 well before end of cell ; 3, 4 coincident, 5 absent ; 6, 7 shortly stalked, bent 

 upwards to the extremity of the costal lobe 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Pseudilema in the fore wing having vein 11 anastomosing, 

 and not becoming coincident, with 12. 



*182 e /\ Scoliosia brunnescens. 



Scoliacma brunnescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 215 (1912), J. 



cf . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen greyish, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface pale yellow. Fore wing uniform red-brown. 



Fig. 75. — Scoliosia brunnescens, <$ . J. 



Hind wing yellowish white with a slight rufous tinge. Underside 

 of fore wing with the patch of androconia at end of cell black. 



Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing yellower and much less tinged 

 with red-brown; hind wing yellowish white without rufous tinge. 



II oh. Bk. X. Guinea, Angabunga R. {Meek), type f 3 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



The genera Tylanthes, p. 12:3 and Teratopora, p. 271 are better 

 placed as derived from Scoliacma. 



238. Tylanthes ptochias, insert (syn.). : — 

 Nishada louisiadensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 223 (1913). 

 LouiSlADES, Sud Est 1. ( Meek), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



