58 AKCTIADJE. 



extremity of the indistinct oblique antemcdial line ; three fuscous 

 spots on costa towards apex ; a large reddish-brown patch on 

 terminal area below vein 5, with the postmedial line on its inner 

 edge and traversed by the diffused black subterminal line, both 

 obsolescent and retracted towards costa, the latter angled at veins 

 5 and 4 and bent inwards below vein 3 ; cilia with some blackish 

 spots. Hind wing pale fuscous ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Km/veit), type t in Coll. Elwes ; Assam, Khjisis, 

 1 ? . Exp. 26 millim. 



112. Rceselia nitida. (Plate XIX. fig. 27.) 

 Selca nitida, Haipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 147 (1894). 



5 . Head and thorax silvery white ; pulpi at sides, antennae, and 

 edges of tegulse blackish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen blackish. Fore 

 wing silvery white, the medial and terminal areas tinged with 

 cupreous ; a triangular black patch at base of costa ; the tufts of 

 scales small, the 1st and 2nd black ; a fine slightly sinuous black 

 antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; the medial area with 

 blackish patch on costa beyond the antemedial line, some black 

 suffusion below the cell and traces of a medial line; the post- 

 medial line slightly sinuous, strongly recurved at vein 3 to below 

 angle of cell ; a blackish patch on costa towards apex ; an irre- 

 gularly dentate black subterminal line retracted to costa and angled 

 outwards to termen above veins 6 and 3 ; a terminal black line ; 

 cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing fuscous, with slight 

 discoidal line ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Simla, Dalhousie (Harford) ; Dharmsala 

 (Hocking); Manipur, Mao (DoJiCrti/), type t in Coll. Elwes. Kvj). 

 30 millim. 



Larva pale yellow, the 1st and terminal somites orange ; paired 

 black dorsal spots on 3rd somite and single spots on 6th, 10th, and 

 11th somites ; a tuft of reddish hair from behind the head, to which 

 are attached the various cast skins of the head, the 1st moult at 

 apex and the others at intervals. Food-plant, Ilea;, the larva 

 feeding on the edges of the leaves from the underside, with the 

 tuft of hair and cast head-skins only projecting beyond the edge. 

 Cocoon boat-shaped, spun on a twig and covered with scales of 

 bark, with the tuft of hair and exuvise of head attached to it. 

 (Harford.) 



1 13. Eoeselia argentescens. 



Pisara argentescens, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 29S ; Moths Ind. 

 iv. p. 505; Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 32. 



5 . Head and thorax silvery grey mixed with bronze ; abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing metallic silvery grey irrorated with fuscous; 

 the tufts of scales small ; a diffused blackish patch at base of costa 

 and another from middle of costa to lower angle of cell ; no trace 

 of antemedial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from 



