RCESELIA. 65 



side; traces of an irregular subterminal liue. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. 



2 paler ; the thorax and patch on inner area of fore wing, 

 whiter. 



Mab. Queensland, Brisbane. Type f cJ ? in Coll. Turner, 

 Exj)., c? 18, $ 26 millim, 



131. Eceselia strigula. 



Mctua strigula, Den. & Scliiff. Sjst. Verz. Wien, p. 69 (1776); Esp.. 



Scbmett. Suppl. iii. p. 52, pi. Si), ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. Sohmett. Eur., Pyr. 



f. 16 ; Dup. Lep. Er. viii. (2) p. 267, ff. 4, 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. 



Eur. ii. p. 163, f. 137 ; Staud. Cat. p. 51 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 373. 

 Pt/ralis monachalis. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 386 (1812). 

 Nola lineolalis, Ev. Eaun. Volg. & Ur. p. 474 (1844); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 373. 



Grey tinged with brown ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing 

 irrorated with blackish scales ; the tufts near base and at middle 

 and upper angle of cell rather large ; ante- and postmedial dentate 

 black lines, the former incurved above vein 1, the latter strongly 

 bent outwards from below costa to vein 3 ; a blackish spot on 

 middle of costa ; a diffused irregularly dentate subterminal black 

 line with some black streaks on the veins ; short black streaks on 

 the veins at termen. Hind wing fuscous ; veins 3, 4 strongly 

 stalked. 



Hab. England ; Ireland ; France ; Germany, Zell. and Frey 

 Colls.; Sweden; Livonia; Italy; Dalmatia ; Turkey; Bithynia. 

 Exp. 20-28 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 34 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii.. p. 186,. pi. 65. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous, sometimes pink-tinged ; hairs pale brownish or 

 yellowish, some towards extiemities very long ; dojsal line broad, 

 yellowdsh, fuscous-edged ; subdorsal line fuscous, interrupted ; a 

 blackish-grey blotch on somite 6. Food-jilant, Oak ; 8-6. 



Cocoon boat-shaped, formed of silk covered by fragments of the 

 bark of food-plant. 



132, Rceselia pygmaea, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 8.) 



Head and thorax grey-white ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing white irrorated with brown ; small tufts of 

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

 latter leaden fuscous ; the antemedial blackish line dentate and 

 angled outwards below cell and inwards on vein 1 ; a small blackish 

 triangular mark at middle of costa ; the postmedial line fine, black, 

 obtusely angled at vein 5, then oblique, an indistinct fine dentate 

 line on its inner side ; an ill defined dentate subterminal line with 

 some black jDoints on the veins and strongly retracted to costa ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards 

 base ; vein 4 absent. 



Hab. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 § type ; Castro Parana, J in 

 Coll. Schaus. Exp. 16 millim. 



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