KCESELIA. — ZrA. / O 



terminal line. Hind wing tinged with fuscous, especially towards 

 apex. 



Hab. Tibet, Moupin ; Assam, Khasis, 1 S . Ex/). 28 millim. 



155. Roeselia discisignata. (Plate XX. fig. 33.) 

 Pisara discisignata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 504 (1896). 



cJ . Head, tegiilse, and abdomen brownish white ; palpi blackish ; 

 thorax grey-white. Pore wing grey-white, with very small tufts of 

 scales near base and at middle and end of cell; the basal half of 

 costal area pale brownish, with blackish mark at base ; the aute- 

 and postmedial lines erect, sinuous, black, with the ground-colour 

 between them brown, traversed by an obscure waved blackish 

 medial line, the postmedial line excurved round a very prominent 

 black reniform stigma ; the terminal area suffused with brown and 

 fuscous, with an obscure irregularly sinuous subterminal line. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hab. CETLoif, Hambantota, Puttalam (Pole), 4 cS , type. Exj). 

 14 millim. 



Genus ZIA. ^p 



Type. 

 Zia, Wlk. xxvii. 109 (1863), nee Koch, Crust. (1834), noii descr.... tactaLis. 

 Aquita, Wlk. xxvii. 200 (1863) tactalis. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint roughly scaled above 

 and below; maxillary palpi minute; frons with tuft of scales ; anteniiEe of male 

 ciliated, fasciculate, the basal joint without tuft of scales ; tibi^ with the spurs 

 long. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 

 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ■,_ 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from just abo\e angle of cell or near middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Skct. I. Palpi projecting about tv/ice the length of head ; fore wing elongate, 

 the costa arched at base, the apex produced.. 



156. Zia tactalis. 



Zia tactalis, Wlk. xxvii. 110 (1863). 

 Aquita horridella, Wlk. xxvii. 200 (1863). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey slightly tinged with brown ; 

 palpi brown at sides ; outer edge of tegulae brown ; metathorax with 

 large tuft of brown scales ; abdomen with dorsal tuft of brown 

 scales on first segment. Fore wing grey, suffused with brown in 

 parts, especially on basal area above the submedian fold and in ceil ; 

 a blackish streak in cell and basal half of submedian fold, with a 

 diffused white fascia below the latter, with a slight black streak 

 below its extremity ; the tufts of scales dark ; a tuft in submedian 

 fold near origin of vein 2, the indistinct autemedial line running 

 obliquely to it ; a white mark on discocellulars and streaks on bases 

 of veins 4, 5 ; the postmedial line arising from middle of costa, very 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then punctiform and acutely 



