RCESELIA. / i- 



medial line ex curved from costa to yein 3, then incurved and obsolete 

 towards inner margin ; vein 4 absent, 5 from above angle of cell. 



Bab. Madagascar, Eetsileo {Cow.ni), 1 2 • J^^^I>- ^^ millim. 

 Type t $ in Coll. iStaudinger. 



145. Rceselia metaleuca, n. sp. (Plate XX, fig. 28.) 



S . Head white ; anteunaB brownish ; palpi tinged with black at 

 sides ; thorax and abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing- 

 grey tinged with brown, the costal area suffused with while ; an 

 elongate black patch at base of costa and a small triangular 

 patch on middle ; the autemedial line evenly curved ; traces of a 

 medial line ; the postmedial line punctiform, strongly excurved from 

 below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; an irregular subterminal line 

 bent inwards to costa ; a slight termnial series of points. Hind 

 wing pure white, with slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial 

 line, the termen tinged with brown. 



Bab. UoLiviA, Chaco {Garlepj>), 1 d type. Exj). 24 millim. 



146. EcBselia gigantiila, (Plate XX. fig. 29.) 



Nola gigantula, Stgr. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss. xiv. p. 328 (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 37o. 

 Nolagigas, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xiii. p. 274 (1884); Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 373. 



Grey, entirely suffused with fuscous brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; legs black, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing irrorated 

 with black scales ; a large tuft of black scales at middle of cell, and 

 smaller tutts near base and at upper angle ; the autemedial line 

 indistinct, excurved at middle ; the postmedial line excurved from 

 below costa to vein 3, angled inwards on vein 2 and outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a very indistinct dentate subterminal line. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous ; underside with discoidal spot ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Bab. Amasia, 1 6 ; Japan, Yezo {Pryer), 1 5 , type gigxis.. Exj), 

 34 millim. Typef in Coll. iStaudinger. 



*147. RcBselia ascripta. (Plate XX. fig. 30.) 

 Selca a&cripta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 147 (1894). 



(J . Head black and white ; palpi black ; antennae brown, blackish 

 tov\ards base ; thorax and abdomen grey, tegulye black in front. 

 Fore wing grey, the costa fuscous to middle, where it ends in a 

 large difi'used fuscous patch extending to the subterminal line and 

 to a slightly obiicj^iie fuscous fascia from lower angle of cell to 

 termen ; the tufts of scales rather small ; the lines very indistinct, 

 the autemedial line angled in cell, then oblique ; the postmedial 

 line angled at vein 5, then oblique ; the subterminal line more 

 distinct, irregularly sinuous, retracted to costa and angled inwards 

 at veins 6 and 2 ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pale 



