52 AECTIAD.E. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate, the apical fourth simple. 

 A. {Sarbena). Tegulte held projecting forward so as to form a 

 hood over the head. 



a. Fore wing with oblique dark fascia from termen below 



apex, widening to middle of inner margin fola. 



b. Fore wing Willi longitudinal dark streaks lignifera. 



105. Eoeselia fola. (Plate XIX. fig. 24.) 



Proneca fola, Swinh. Trans. Bnt. Soc. 1890, p. 194; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 555. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with fuscous. Pore wing ochreous irrorated with 

 red-brown ; a dark brown fascia on costal area ; a slightly carved 

 dark line from termen below apex to middle of inner margin, with 

 a diffused dark brown fascia on its inner side widening towards 

 inner margin, on which it extends almost to base ; a subterminal 

 line obsolescent and retracted towards costa, angled at vein 5, then 

 oblique and broad. Hind wing whitish ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



5 . Hind wing fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Colombo {Mackwood), 1 <S ; Burma, Thyetmyo, 1 $ 

 type. Exp., S 22, $ 24 millim. 



106. Eceselia lignifera. 



Sarbena lignifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 137 (1862). 

 Cyphotoi^syohe ustipemiis, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 297 ; Moths 

 Ind. iv. p. 506. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with blackish brown ; 



palpi blackish ; tegulse with 

 two black bands. Pore wing 

 brown; the tufts of scales 

 rather small ; a blackish fascia 

 on costa ; the postmedial line 

 fine, black, very strongly ex- 

 curved from below costa to 



7ig. 17 .—Soeselia lig7iifera, (J . }. vein 3, then very acutely angled 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) .^^^^^^^^ .^ submedian fold, 



with a streak from its angle to inner margin near base, then acutely 

 angled outwards above vein 1 ; a blackish patch on outer margin 

 below apex ; a streak in discal fold from beyond postmedial line to 

 cell and on vein 5 from termen to postmedial line. Hind wing 

 fuscous, paler towards inner margin in male ; veins 4, 5 stalked. 



Hub. Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 ^ , type ustipennis ; Bombay Pres., 

 M.how (For say eth),! $; CErLON, Hambautota, 1 $ (Pole); Borneo, 

 Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 d type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 22-26 millim. 



Larva. Early stages: creamy buff, with dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 sublateral series of small warts bearing tufts of long buff hair ;^ four 

 pairs of prolegs, the 6th somite without prologs ; the cast skins of 

 the head are attached to a long tuft of hair projecting forward 

 from 1st somite, the number of moults being known by the number 



