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Stellate or radiated markings upon its anterior wings, the cilia of 

 which are very long, and partake of the radiating lines ; the palpi 

 are very slender (at least in my specimen), and slightly drooping; 

 the body short ; legs tolerably long and slender ; the antennas a 

 little pilose beneath, &c. 



Sp. 1. (lentalis. Plate 33. J". 1. Alis anticis griseo-cinerascentibus, llneulis 



alhis nigro adnatis radiantibvs. (Exp. Alar. 10 — 11 lin.) 

 Py. dentalis. Wien. /'er^.— Scop, dentalis. Steph. Catal. ii. 167. No. 6838. 



Anterior wings greyish-ash or pale olivaceous-brown, with some whitish 

 clouds, the costa palish at the base, the apex with short oblique black and 

 white streaks, behind the middle is a most singularly llexuous streak arising 

 on the costa and terminating in the middle of the inner margin, white 

 interiorly and black exteriorly, composed of numerous very sharply and 

 suddenly angulated lineolae, giving a radiated appearance to the wing; 

 behind this, on the hinder margin, is a row of short white lines, one in each 

 areolet ; cilia whitish-ash, interrupted with black streaks : posterior wings 

 ashy-brown, with an irregular, angulated, line behind the middle : cilia pale 

 ash. 



In the collection of the late Mr. Haworth is a specimen of this 

 rare insect, taken near London, by Mr. Knight, and I possess one 

 taken several years since in Devonshire, not far from Tavistock. 



Genus CCLXXIII. — Nola, Leach. 



Palpi large, somewhat depending, robust, parallel, densely clothed with 

 elongate scales ; triarticulate, the basal joint short, incurved, second elon- 

 gate, a little smaller, terminal minute ovate : maxilla short. Antenna mo- 

 derate, with a fascicle of long scales at the base, simple in both sexes, pilose 

 beneath in the males : head small, clothed with rough scales : ei/es small : 

 thorax stoutish : wings entire, ample, anterior placed over the posterior 

 during repose, and forming a triangle, the disc with transverse streaks and 

 three elevated tufts of scales, placed longitudinally ; posterior ample, ovate- 

 triangular : abdomen short, stout in the female, with a small tuft at the 

 apex ; legs rather slender, moderate. Larva hairy, with fourteen legs : 

 pupa inclosed in a conical cocoon, truncate at one end. 



This genus, which is synonymous with Roeselia of Uiibncr, but 

 whose adopted name has the priority, differs from the other Pyralidae 

 by having elevated tufts on the anterior wings, as in some of the 

 genera of the next family, by which they may be at once known, 

 without attending to the other characters : the larva is flat, pilose, 



