60 AECTTAD^. 



on base of costa irrorated witli brassy scales ; the ante- and post- 

 medial lines fine, black, the former exeurved in and below cell, the 

 latter oblique from costa to vein 5, where it is slightly bent 

 inwards, then curved, the area between them with broad brownish 

 band irrorated with brassy and black scales and traversed by a 

 black line with tufts of scales on it ; an indistinct sinuous sub- 

 terminal line retracted to costa ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Hob. Queensland, Brisbane, type t cJ in Coll. Meyrick ; jSF. S. 

 "Wales, Parramatta, 1 5 {Raynor)-^ Victoria. Ex^j., S 18, $ 22 

 millim. 



*117. Eoeselia troclia. (Plate XIX. fig. 31.) 



Nola trocha, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 25 (1897). 



$ . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi blackish at sides ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen fuscous. Fore Aving pure white ; a black-brown 

 patch at base of costa irrorated with black and silvery scales ; a 

 black-brown medial band irrorated with silvery scales, expanding 

 towards costa, its outer edge angled on median nervure, its inner 

 on vein 1 ; a triangular blackish patch with white point on it on 

 costa before apex ; traces of a sinuous subterminal line ; fuscous 

 triangular marks on termen at veins 5 and 2 ; cilia fuscous. Hind 

 wing pale fuscous, with indistinct dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja, type f 5 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 24 millim. 



118. Eoeselia albula. 



Noctua albula, Den. & Schiff. Syst. Verz. Wien, p. fi9 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. 

 Schmett., Pyr. f. 14 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Tiii. p. 27;^, pi. 228. f. 2 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Scbmett. Eur. ii. p. 166, f. 140 ; Staud. Cat. p. 52 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het p. 374, 



S. White; abdomen banded with brown. Fore wing with large 

 tufts of scales near base and at middle and upper angle of cell, the 

 last at extremity of a rufous costal spot ; slight rufous marks on 

 base of costa ; an indistinct curved antemedial line ; the post- 

 medial line angled below costa and retracted slightly at vein 3, 

 where it is sometimes joined to the costal spot by a diffused rufous 

 shade ; some rufous points on costa towards apex ; a very indistinct 

 trisinuate subterminal line ; termen rufous except towards apex and 

 tornus ; cilia rufous. Hind wing white, tinged with brown towards 

 apex. 



2 with the diffused ruFous medial band of fore wing broad and 

 traversed by a dentate blackish medial line retracted to costa ; a 

 rufous band sometimes present on inner side of subterminal line 

 and a terminal series of black points. 



Hub. England, Kent; France; Germany, Zell. Coll, ; Hungary; 

 Sardinia ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; Bithynia ; Ponxtjs ; Japan, Nagasaki. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Larva., Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 34; Barretf, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 193, pi. 6.5. f. 5. 

 Whitish, palo pink, or orange ; hairs whitish, a few much longer 



