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41. Celama confusalis. 



Nola cristulalis, Dup. Lep. Fr. viii. (2) p. 269, pi. 227. ff. 6, 7 (1832), nee 



Hilbn. 

 Eosselia confusalis, Herr.-Schaff. Schinett. Eur. ii. p. 164 (1851) ; Stand. 



Cat. p. 52 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 373. 



Grey ; head and thorax strongly irrorated with brown ; legs and 

 abdomen banded with fuscous. Pore wing strongly irrorated with 



brown ; small tufts of scales near 

 base and at middle and end of 

 cell, the two latter placed at 

 extremities of oblique elliptical 

 brownish spots on costa ; an ante- 

 medial fuscous line angled in cell; 

 Fig. 7. — Celama confusalis, cJ. \. the postmedial line black, puncti- 

 (Fi-om Moths Ind. vol. ii.) form, escurved from below costa 



to vein 2, where it is angled inwards, slightly angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; an irregularlj^-waved obscure subterminal line, strongly 

 bent inwards to costa ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing tinged with 

 fuscous, especiallj' towards apex ; a discoidal point. 



Rab. Beitain ; Feance ; Belgium ; Geemany, Zell. and Prey 

 Colls. jSa^j. 22 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 53 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. p. 188, pi. 65. f. 3. 

 Dull reddish ; dorsal area yellowish ; hairs brownish, some 

 much longer; dorsal line double, black, interrupted and forming 

 ferruginous V-shaped marks on somites 7-9 ; subdorsal line 

 black. Food-plants, Quercus, Pomus, etc. ; 7-10. 



42. Celama squalida. 



Uola squalida, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. xiv. p. 102 (1870) ; Mill. Icon. Lep. 



iii. p. 407, pi. 150. ff. 15, 16 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 375. 

 Nola musculcdis, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879, p. 261 (1880) ; id. Lep, 



Madag. i. p. 171, pi. 6. f. 85 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 371. 

 Roeseliafraterna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 393. 

 Nola ceylonica, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 88, pi. 158. f. 13 (1893) ; id. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 141. 

 Nola van hasseltii, Heyl. O.K. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxvi. p. 44 (1892) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 916. 

 Sorocostia desmotes, Turner, Trans. E. Soc. S. Austr. 1899, p. 15. 



Head and thorax grey-brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with 

 brown and irrorated with a few black scales ; small tufts of fuscous 

 scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; a blackish ante- 

 medial line angled outwards below cell; the medial area with 

 whitish band; the postmedial line black, punctiform, slightly 

 incurved between veins 3 and 1, with brown suffusion on its inner 

 edge and whitish on its outer ; an indistinct irregularly sinuous 

 subterminal line. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous towards 

 apex ; a dark discoidal point. 



Hob. Sp.41n, Malaga, type t in Coll. Staudinger ; Syeia, Beirut, 1 S ; 

 Madagascae, type t musculalis in Miis. Frankfort; China, Shanghai; 

 N.W. Himalayas, Simla (Harford, Pilcher), 3 d , 1 $ , Xangra 

 (Hoclcing), type fratema ; Sikhim (Pilcher) ; BrnjiAN (Dudgeon) 



