PISABA. CELAMA. 5 



Genus PISARA. „ 



Type. 



Pisara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 117 (1S62) opalina. 



Necla, Wlk. xxvii. 99 (1863) opalina. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, 

 the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and below, the 3rd moderate, slightly scaled ; 

 frons with tuft of scales ; antemiiB with tuft on basal joint ; tibi^ with the spurs 

 well developed. Fore wing triangular ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from above angle 

 of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7, S shortly stalked ; 9, 10 absent; 11 

 oblique. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 5 from middle 

 ofdiscocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 from middle of cell. 



2. Pisara opalina. 



Pisara opalina, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 118(1862); Swiuh. 



Cat. Het. Mus. Oson. p. 131, pi. 4. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 381. 

 Necla canioralis, Wlk. xxvii. 100 (1863). 

 Nola basimicans, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 139 (1894). 



2 . Silveiy grey, irrorated with fuscous ; palpi tinged with 

 fuscous at sides. Fore wing with tuft of fuscous and grey scales in 

 base of cell, and ferruginous tufts in end of cell and on disco- 

 cellulars ; an oblique blackish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 a curved antemedial line ; an indistinct postmedial line, sharply 



bent outwards from be- 

 low costa to vein 3 ; an 

 irregular diffused sub- 

 terminal line angled out- 

 wards at veins 6 and 3 ; 

 a slight terminal shade. 

 Hind wing suffused with 

 "Sffi'" w \\\ wxy \^^ fuscous towards termen ; 



cilia white, with a fine 

 fuscous line through 

 Fig. 3. — Pisara opalina, cj. f. them. 



cJ . Fore wing with 

 the basal area suffused with golden bronze ; the antemedial line 

 straighter ; the tufts fuscous ; the subterminal line not angled at 

 vein 6. 



Hah. BiJEMA, E. Pegu (Doherty), type f basimicans in Coll. Elwes ; 

 BoKNEo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 5? type canioralis, 1 c? type fin 

 Mus. Oxon. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus CELAMA. 



Type. 



Celama, Wlk. xxxii. 500 (1864) bifascialis. 



Aradraj^ha, Wlk. xx:iiv. 1182(1865) tineoides. 



ieftewa, Wlk. XXXV. 1901 (1866) trinotata. 



Minnagara, Wlk. xsxv. 1902 (1866) fasciata. 



Argyrophyes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 175 (1873) cilicoides. 



Sorocostia, Eosenst. A. M. N. H. (5) xvi. p. 435 (1885) albalis. 



Epizeuctis, Meyr. Trans. Bnt. Soc. 1889, jj. 463 interiiella. 



Beltapterum, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 138 (1894) pegioensis. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head ; 

 the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and below, the 3rd moderate, slightly 



