298 KOCTUIDiE. 



by dark brown on inner side, minutely waved, exeurved below 

 costa and at middle ; a fine blackish terminal lino slightly defined 

 by grey on inner side. Hind wing scmihyaline white, the termen 

 narrowly reddish brown. 



Hah. Madras, Belgaum [Watson), 1 (S ; Ceylon^ Colombo [Green), 

 1 S type, Exi). 20 millim. 



6593. Selepa celtis. 



Sde2M celtis, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 353, pi. IG. fiT. 8, 8a (1858); id. Lep. 



Ceyl. iii. p. 103, pi. 158. f. 5 ; Ilmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 370. 

 Subrita curviferella, Wlk. xxxv. 1745 (1860). 



Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; fore tarsi ringed with black- 

 ish ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with red-brown, an oblique purplish fuscous shade from postraediul 

 part of inner margin where it extends from antemedial line to 

 tornus ; antemedial line indistinct, curved, a ridge of black scales 

 beyond it from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; a small tuft of black 

 scales at middle of cell and discoidal bar-shaped tuft ; postmedial 

 line double, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, below submediau fold waved and with two tufts of raised 



Fig. 105. — Selepa celtis, d". f. 



scales on it, crossed bj' fine black streaks above and below vein 2 ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous brown 

 except towards costa, minutely waved, incurved below vein 3 and 

 with tuft of raised scales on it above tornus ; a fine black terminal 

 line. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with diffused black patch in, below, and beyond 

 lower end of cell. 



Hah. N. Ikdia [Hearsey), 2 $ type ; Punjab, Almorah (Boys), 

 1 2 type curviferella, Manpuri, 1 $ ; Assam, Nagas ; Eexgal 

 {Russell), 1 5 , Calcutta, 3 c?, 1 $ ; Bombay (SivinJioe), 2 5 , Mhow 

 {SivinJioe), 2 § ; Madras, jN'ilgiris [Hampson), 1 $ ; Ceylon, 2 5 ; 

 Philipi'ines, Luzon ; Java (iJorsJield), 1^,2$; Queensland, 

 Townsville (Dodd), 1 $ . Hvp. 20-24 millim. 



Larva. Semper, Reise Phil., Sdimett. ii. p. 529, pi. Q, ff. 12-14. 



Yellow; head black; dorsal black patches on 5th, 10th, and llth 

 somites ; a lateral reddish line with series of black spots ; hairs 

 long and sparse ; forms a cocoon covered with fteces. 



