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and dark brown ; dorsal line double, grey ; subdorsal black, inter- 

 rupted. Eood-plant, Buhus ; 8-6. 



119. Eceselia leucostola, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 32.) 

 Nola inelicerta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 140 (part) (1885). 



5 . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at base, antennae, and 

 abdomen tinged with brown. Fore wing pure white, with a small 

 blackish patch at base of costa and a large quadrate medial patch on 

 which are placed tufts of leaden scales near end and at upper angle 

 of cell ; traces of an almost regularly curved postmedial line ; the 

 subterminal line trisinuate, interrupted, and with blackish patches 

 at costa and middle ; cilia brown. Hind wing tinged with fuscous, 

 especially towards termen ; a discoidal point; vein 4 strongly 

 stalked with 3. 



Hah. Costa Eica, Irazu, 6000 ft. {Rogers), 1 $ type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. 26 millim. 



*120. Eceselia semirufa. (Plate XIX. fig. 33.) 

 Pisara semirufa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 146 (1894). 



2 . Head and tegulse white ; palpi, antennas, and tegulae behind 

 rufous ; thorax and abdomen rufous. Fore wing with the basal 

 area rufous, the medial area white with a few dark scales, its outer 

 edge obliquely curved from costa before middle, the inner margin 

 beyond middle, the rest of wing deep rufous ; a minutely dentate 

 antemedial line, oblique towards costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 the postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, retracted to costa 

 and with some white beyond it, very strongly angled inwards below 

 vein 3, then with broad fuscous band on its inner side ; a sub- 

 terminal line retracted to costa and angled inwards below veins 6 

 and 3 : cilia fuscous towards base. Hind wing pale rufous ; vein -4 

 absent. 



Hab. SiKHiM (Knyvett), type f in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 24 millim. 



*121. Eceselia rufescens. (Plate XIX. fig. 34.) 



Beeselia nifesccns, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, sliii. p. 134 (1899). 



(S . Head white irrorated with black ; palpi blackish ; tegulfe 

 rufous ; thorax and abdomen white ; fore and hind legs blackish. 

 Fore wing white, almost entirely suffused with rufous, the basal 

 inner area whiter ; the costal area irrorated with black and white 

 scales ; the antemedial line hardly traceable, angled in cell, then 

 oblique ; a white patch in end of cell ; the tufts of scales at middle 

 and upper angles of cell large, a smaller tuft at lower angle ; the 

 ])ostmedial line indistinct, angled at vein 4, then oblique ; veins 5, 

 6, 7 streaked wdth black ; the apical area white, defined below by 

 an oblique black streak recurved at lower end ; a slightly waved 

 rufous line curved round below apex ; a white patch towards tornus ; 

 a series of rufous spots on cilia. Hind wing pure white. 



Hab. EcuADOB, Loja, typefd in Coll. Dognin. Exjp. 26 miUim. 



