110 



ARCTIABJi:. 



A. Pore wing with orange patches vagiviita. 



B. Fore wing uniform black-brown aurantlccps. 



204. Chrysoscota vagivitta. 



Lithosia vagivitta, Wlk. xssv. 1884 (1866) ; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. 

 p. 127, pi. iii. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 332. 



Black-brown ; head, tegulae, and base of patagia orange ; palpi at 

 tips, antennte, and patches on frons and vertex of liead black ; legs 

 orange and fuscous ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface 



Fig. 51. — Clirysoscota vagivitta, (^ . \. 



orange. Fore wing shot with purple ; a wedge-shaped orange patch 

 in and below cell from base to before middle ; an elliptical spot in 

 end of cell, with an oblique spot below its extremity ; a short post- 

 medial streak below costa. 



Hah, Mysol {Wallace), 1 S type; Cekam ; S.W. New Guinea, 

 Kapaur (Doherty), 3 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 



205. Chrysoscota auranticeps, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) 



Head orange ; palpi at tips and antennae brown ; tegulae and base 

 of patagia orange ; thorax and abdomen black-brown, with slight 

 purple gloss, the greater pait of legs, extremity and ventral surface 

 of abdomen orange. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish gloss ; 

 an orange streak at base of costa. Hind wing black-brown. 



Hab. K. Guinea, Fergusson I., 1 c? , 1 $ (Meek), type. Exp., 

 S 26, 2 30 millim. 



Genus NISHADA. 



Type. 



Nishada, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 23 flabrifcra. 



Petalopleura, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 458 impervia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, reaching just beyond frons, the 

 2nd joint fringed with hair below ; frons rounded ; antennae of male with long 

 cilia and bristles, the shaft usually thickened with scales above towards base; 

 tibise with the spurs short ; abdomen with slight lateral tufts on 1st segment, 

 the 2nd segment almost bare of scales above in male. Fore wing rather short 

 and broad, the costa highly arched ; vein 2 oblique from well before angle of 

 cell; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent; 6 from or from below upper angle; 7 from 8 

 after 9 ; 10 from cell ; 11 anastomosing with 12 ; male with a large patch of 

 naked ridged membrane on inner area, the inner margin fringed with hair. 

 Hind wing of male usually with costal fold fringed with large scales from nerr 

 base to beyond micMle ; vein 2 from close to angle of cell and closely approxi- 

 mated to 3, 4, which are coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7 coincident and strongly 

 downcurv(d; 8 from middle of cell; female usually with vein 2 from long 

 before angle of cell ; 3, 4 and 6, 7 strongly stalked. 



