ZlA. AECHINOLA. 



158, Zia laminata. 



77 



Aoontia laminata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 75, pi. 145. f. 5, $ (1891) ; 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 145. 

 Pisara rufescens, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 145, S (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax white ; abdomen fuscous banded with 

 white. Fore wing white, irrorated with a few fuscous scales ; a 

 blackish spot at base of costa ; the antemedial Hue fine, black, 

 interrupted at median nervure and obsolete below vein 1 ; the 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 3, then excurved to below 

 angle of cell ; a triangular blackish patch on costa between the lines 

 shot with purple and cupreous, its apex below the cell, and with 

 tufts of dark scales on it at middle and upper angle ot cell ; a tuft 

 of white scales at lower angle ; the terminal area black and brown 

 shot with purple and cupreous scales, except a large white patch on 

 costa extending from apex to postmedial line at vein 5 ; some 

 fuscous points on costa towards apex ; an indistinct irregularly 

 sinuous subtermiual line. Hind wing fuscous. 



S . Abdomen white, brownish towards extremity ; fore wing 

 with the spot at base of costa represented by two points ; the lower 

 part of triangular medial patch and the terminal area much redder 

 brown ; hind wing reddish brown. 



Hah. NiLGims {Earnj>son), 1 $ type; Burma, Eangoon {Scott), 

 1 (S , type rufescens. Exp., S 1^, 2 24 millim. 



159. Zia lunisigna. (Plate XX. fig. 34.) 

 Nola lunisigna, Hmpsn. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 441 (1898). 



6 . Greyish white ; palpi black at base ; abdomen fuscous, with 

 segmental white rings. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; a black 

 spot below base of costa : the tufts near base and at middle and 

 upper angle of cell rather small; traces of a sinuous subbasal line; 

 the antemedial line fine, black, angled inwards above vein 1 and 

 outwards below it ; a prominent black lunule at upper angle of cell, 

 with point above it on costa ; a fine medial fuscous line from it to 

 inner margin angled inwards below cell ; the postmedial line black, 

 oblique and punctiform from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards and 

 stronger ; a dentate fuscous subterminal line retracted to costa. 

 Hind wing fuscous, paler towards inner margin. 



Hab. Assam, Kht4sis, 1 d type. Krp. 24 millim. 



Genus AKCHINOLA. 



Type. 



ArcM?iola, ILnnpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 258 pyralidia. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, extenrling about twice the length of head 

 and roughly scaled above and below ; maxill iry jDalpi large, triangularly scaled ; 

 frons smoothly scaled ; antennse of male ciliated, with tuit of scales on basal 

 joint ; tibife with the spurs long. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 



