CELAMA. Zi 



of each ■vrart and with irregular dorsal and lateral dark grey stripes ; 

 the large warts of cervical shield brown behind ; hairs short, bristly^ 

 with brown tubercles and tips ; a few long pale hairs from ex- 

 tremities and third wart ; body dark above spiracles. Food-plant,. 

 Cletlira atrifolia. 



Cocoon on a twig, triangular, formed of pieces of bark. 



47. Celama melalopha, n. sp. (Plate XYIII. fig. 21.) 



2 . Whitish, irrorated Avith brown and fuscous scales ; palpi 

 reddish brown at sides. Fore wing Avith small brown tufts of 

 scales near base and at upper angle of cell and a black tuft at 

 middle ; a series of small brown spots on costa ; an indistinct 

 oblique fuscous antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line punctiform, black, escurved from vein 6 to 3, then 

 strongly incurved; an indistinct, irregularly sinuous, difi'used fuscous 

 subterminal line bent inwards to costa ; a terminal series of fuscous- 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white, tinged with fuscous towards 

 apex. 



Hah. W. Af-KiCA, Accra {Carter), 3 $ type. Exp. 16 millim. 



48. Celama flexuosa. (Plate XVIII. fig. 26.) 



Nolaflexuosa, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vi. p. clxvii (1887) ; Kirby, Cat, 



Het. p. 372. 

 Eceselia sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 287 (1888) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.- 



p. 140 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 375. 



S ' Grrey, more or less suffused with pale reddish brown. Fore- 

 wing with small tufts of scales at middle and end of cell ; a curved 

 antemedial line ; the medial area often strongly suffused with red- 

 brown, especially towards the two minutelj^ dentate postmedial 

 lines, which are excurved from costa to vein 3, then slightly 

 incurved ; an irregular subterminal line defined by white on outer 

 side and angled outwards below costa and at middle. Hind wing; 

 white, slightly tinged with fuscous towards termen ; a discoidal 

 point. 



5 . Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Tibet, Moupin ; Sikhim, type siJcMma, Moore ColL 

 (Pikher). Bay., o' 20, $ 22 millim. 



49. Celama karelica. 



Mia karelica, Teugstr. Not. Faun. Flor. Feun. x. p. 298 (1869) ; Staud, 



Cat. p. 52 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 375. 

 Nola arctica, Sch^y. Arch. f. Math, og Naturv. v. p. 172, ff. 1, 2 (1880). 

 l^ola obsoleta, Eeuter, Medd. Soc. Faun. Flor. Fenn. xis. p. 122 (1893). 



5 . Head and thorax white ; palpi brown at sides ; abdomen 

 tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white; some brown marks od 

 basal costal area ; a curved yellow-brown antemedial line not 

 reaching inner margin ; tufts of raised fuscous scales at middle and 



