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ECESELIA. 73 



brownish. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with black ; small 

 tufts of scales near base and at middle and two angles of cell ; the 

 antemedial line black, prominent, trisinuate, and defined by white 

 on inner side ; a blackish medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; the postmedial line black, defined by white on outer 

 side, oblique from costa to vein 3, then incurved, and bent outwards 

 again on vein 1 ; an indistinct dentate subterminal line. Hind 

 wing brown ; vein 4 stalked with 3. Proboscis aborted. 



Hah. QuEET^SLAND, Cooktown ; Victoria, Melbourne, 5 cJ , 1 5 

 (Raynor, Anderson); S. Australia, Mt. Lofty; Tasmania, type 

 viduella. Eay., S 26-30, 2 34-40 millim. Type f obscura in 

 Mus. Oxon. 



151. Eceselia medioscripta. (Plate XX. fig. 31.) 

 Bceselia medioscripta, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vii. p. 217 (1899). 



5 - Grey, irrorated with fuscous scales. Fore wing with the 

 tufts of scales small ; a black patch at base of costa ; faint traces of 

 an antemeflial line oblique from cell to inner margin ; a prominent 

 curved medial black line, slightly angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 arising from a triangular patch on costa ; the postmedial line puncti- 

 form, strongly excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; 

 an irregularly sinuous subterminal line retracted to costa. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with fuscous ; a fuscous termiiial line ; vein 4 

 absent. 



Hal. Mexico, Orizaba, Jalapa, 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. Type t 

 in Coll. Schaus. 



Sect. II. (Mimerastia). ADtennas of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line very strongly 



angled outwards below costa anfracta. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled out- 



wards below costa. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate from 



ccsta to vein 3 ; no black discoidal spot. 

 fl\ Fore wing with brown suffusion on medial 



area except towards co.'^ta mandschuriana . 



b^. Fore wing without brown suffusion on medial 



area longiventris. 



b. Fore wing VTith the postiredial Hue not dentate ; a 



prominent black discoidal spot discisigiuda. 



*152. Eceselia anfracta. (Plate XX. fig. 20.) 

 mia anfracta, H. Edw. Pap. i. p. 12 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 372. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing with the ground-colour white suffused with 

 pale olive-brown, leaving some white defining the ante- and post- 

 medial lines and on termen ; the antemedial brown line angled 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous ; an oblique blackish discoidal 

 striga ; the postmedial line arising from costa just beyond middle, 

 very strongly angled outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 



