ECESELIA. 67 



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

 brownish. Fore wing grey- white irro rated with fuscous ; small 

 tufts of scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; a black 

 point near base of costa ; the autemedial line arising from a black 

 point on costa, oblique to below cell, where it is angled, then in- 

 curved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; a medial black point on 

 costa ; the postmedial line strongly excurved from below costa to 

 vein 2, on which it is acutely angled inwards, then angled outwards 

 above vein 1 ; an irregularly sinuous subterrainal line retracted to 

 costa ; some black points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing pale, strongly suffused with fuscous 

 towards termen ; vein 4 absent. 



Hah. ]\[ai)Agascar, Betsileo ( Coit^an), 1 5 type, typet S respersa 

 in Mus. Lubeck. Exp. 22 millim. 



137. Roeselia divisa. (Plate XX. fig. 13.) 



Nola divisa, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 152 (1896). 

 Nola nalama, Schaus, J. N. Y. Eat. Soc. iv. p. 163 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal half whitish, suf- 

 fused with brown and black on costal area, the outer half grey 

 thickly irrorated with black and with a diffused whitish patch at 

 apex ; rather large tufts of scales near base and at middle and 

 upper angle of cell ; a fine black antemedial line, sometimes almost 

 obsolete, slightly angled outwards below cell and inwards on veinl ; 

 the postmedial line punctiform, excurved from below costa to vein 3, 

 with some fuscous suffusion and black marks on its inner side ; an 

 irregularly sinuous subterminal line, retracted to costa. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with fuscous towards termen, or entirely fuscous ; 

 vein 4 stalked with 3, often almost to termen. 



Ab. 1. notama. Fore wing with the terminal area browner, irro- 

 rated with black and white. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing uniformly suffused with 

 brown. 



Hah. Brazil, 2 S , Castro Paraiia, Sao Paulo, type t and type t 

 natama in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 20 millim. 



*138. Rceselia arana. (Plate XX. fig. 14.) 

 Nola arana, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 152 (1896). 



$ . Pale brown ; vertex of head pure white ; tegulse and pro- 

 thorax strongly irrorated with greenish black. Fore wing with 

 diffused patches of greenish-black scales on costa near base and 

 towards apex ; tufts of scales near base and at middle and upper 

 angle, the two latter large and yellowish ; an indistinct black ante- 

 medial line acutely angled below costa, angled inwards on vein 1, 

 and obsolete towards inner margin ; the postmedial line double, 

 black, dentate and excurved from costa to vein 6, then represented 

 by slight black points on the veins, angled oi;t wards on vein 1 ; an 



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