STEXOSIA. — PELOSIA. 93 



163, Stenosia rufeola, n. sp. 



cS . Bright rufous brown ; abdomeu greyish, the anal tuft yellow. 

 Fore wing with traces of a postmedial line formed by some fuscous 



Fig. 26. — Stenosia rvfeola, S • \- 



scales between costa and fold in cell and between submedian fold 

 and inner margin. Hind wing pale rufous. 



Hah. Bali (DoJierti/), 1 J type. Ex2). 20 millim. 



Genus PELOSIA. „, 



lype. 



Pelosia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 165 (1827) muscerda. 



Samera, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. vii. p. 146 muscerda. 



Paidina, Staud. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 184 (1887), non descr ramulosa. 



Palpi porrect, extending as far as frons and fringed with hair below ; frons 

 roughly scaled ; antennte of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibia with the spurs 

 raoderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with the costa 

 arched, the termen rounded; vein 2 from middle of cell, curved at base; 

 5 absent; 7, 8 stalked; 9 absent; 10 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from before angle of cell ; 3, 4 on a long sialk ; 5 absent ; 

 6, 7 moderately stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Proboscis slight, aborted. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 very shortly 

 stalked ; 6 from below angle of cell. 



164, Pelosia obtusa. 



Paidia obtusa, Herr.-Schaflf. Schmett. Eur. vi. p, 53, Bomb. f. 161 (1847) ; 



Staud. Cat. p. 62 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 321. 

 ~ Gampola noctis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Ket. p. 320, 

 Paidia obtrita, Staud. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 183, pi. 10. f. 8 (1887) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 321. 

 Paidia avgusta, Staud. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 182, pi. 10. f. 7 (1887) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 364. 

 Paidina obtusa, var. sutschana, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p, 260 (1892). 



S . Fuscous brown. Fore wing with the veins streaked with 

 fuscous ; a postmedial series of fuscous points oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, where it is strongly angled, then very oblique to 

 middle of inner margin. Hind wing rather more fuscous, 



Ab, 1. sutschana. Rather darker. Fore wing with the veins 

 strongly streaked with black. 



Ab. 2. obtrita. Fore wing with the points conjoined into a line, 



Ab. 3, noctis. Ground-colour black-brown ; fore wing with 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 4, angiihta, A similar but much smaller form. 



