20 AKCTIAD^E. 



32. Celama appelia, n. sp. (Plate XYIII. fig. 16.) 



$ . White. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with brownish ;: 

 tufts of raised brownish scales near base and in middle and end of 

 cell; traces of a brown antemedial line and two slight spots on 

 costa ; the postmedial line sharply bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely dentate, with a broad band of brown suffusion 

 before it ; a waved subterminal line from vein 5 to inner margin ; 

 some spots on costa towards apex and on termen ; cilia brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 $ type. Ex^^. 20 millim. 



33. Celama sorghiella. 



Nola sorghiella, Eiley, Rep. Ins. 1882, p. 188, pi. xi. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 379. 

 Nola portoricensis, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. svi. p. 118 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 376. 



White. Fore wing with the costa pale brown ; raised tufts of 

 pale brown scales near base, at middle and end of cell ; an obscure 

 postmedial brown line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2; some 

 brownish suffusion beyond lower angle of cell ; an obscure waved', 

 subterminal line from vein 5 to inner margin ; some spots on costa 

 towards apex ; termen and cilia except at apex pale brown. 



Hal). U.S.A., North Carolina, 1 S Grote Coll. ; Portorico, typet 

 portoricensis in Coll. Staudinger ; SuKiisrAM:, Paramaribo (Dohrn),. 

 1 5 ; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 $ . Ea;p. 16 millim. 



Larva, Dyar, Psyche, vi. p. 110, & Can. Ent. 1899, p. 61. 



Full-grown : length 13 millim. Yellowish or pale greenish 

 yellow, with two broad brownish dorsal stripes and sometimes sub- 

 dorsal and lateral lines ; dorsal line almost sulphur-yellow ; head 

 yellow, small and retractile ; stigmata small, brown ; each segment 

 with transverse dorsal series of six piliferous warts and a smaller 

 wart at base of legs furnished with short sharp yellow bristles with 

 brown tips, those of the lateral warts mixed with a few long slender 

 hairs ; legs yellowish. Food-plant, SorgJmm vulgare ; feeds in a 

 web. 



Pujya 5"6 millim. ; brownish yellow, darkish on dorsum and 

 abdomen, and closely covered with small brownish granules. 



34. Celama triquetrana. (Plate XVIII. fig. 18.) 



Braehi/t(snia triquetrana, Fitch, 1st & 2nd Eep. Ins. N. Y. p. 244 (1856). 

 Lehena trinotata, Wlk. xxxt. 1902 (1866) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 378. 

 Nola sexonaculata, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 235 (1877). 



Grey, irrorated with fuscous ; palpi brown at sides ; tegulae with 

 fulvous band; shoulders with brown spots. Fore wing with elongate 

 rufous patch at base of costa ; tufts of scales near base and at 

 middle and end of cell, the two latter at extremity of oblique ellip- 

 tical rufous patches on costa ; the antemedial line black, angled on 

 inner side of 2nd costal patch, then oblique ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, minutely dentate and incurved between veins 3 and 

 1 ; an obscure irregularly sinuous subterminal line bent inwards to 



