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428. 



NOLA MONACHALIS. 



The small Black -arches. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Pyralidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea cucullatella Linn. 



NoLA Leach, Curt. — Hercyna Treit. — Chlamifera and Bombyx Hub. — 

 Pyralis Hub., Haw. — Phalsena Tinea Linn. 

 Antenna; inserted close to the eyes on each side the crown of the 

 head, moderately long, composed of many joints scaly above, 

 basal joint large globose and clothed with long scales forming a 

 long brush on the inside, 2nd globose, the remainder oblong, 

 each producing 2 pilose branches at the base in the male (1 (?) j 

 simple in the female ($). 



MaxillcE a little longer than the Palpi, slender and spiral (3). 

 Labial Palpi large, porrected horizontally or rather drooping, 

 parallel robust and densely clothed with scales (4) ; triarticulate, 

 basal joint short, 2nd very long and ventricose, 3rd minute 

 ovate (4 a). 

 Head clothed with scales. Eyes small, lateral and prominent. Thorax 

 small globose. Abdomen short and rather stout in the females. 

 Wings entire, superior sublanceolate with 3 elevated tufts in a line 

 beneath the costa, and, covering the inferior when in repose in the form 

 o^ a triangle. Thighs ; middle pair the longest. Tibiae, anterior 

 very short, with an internal spine, the others spurred at the apex, 

 posterior long ciliated externally, with a pair of spurs also near the 

 middle. Tarsi long, 5-jointed, basal joint the longest. Claws slender 

 and curved. 

 Caterpillars hairy, with 6 pectoral, 6 ? abdominal, and 2 anal feet. 

 Pupse inclosed in a conical case truncated at one end. 



MoNACHALis Haw. Lep. Brit. 386. 33. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 970. 1 , 

 Cinereous-gray, partially tinged with ochre and freckled with 

 white: palpi brown on the outside; a brown band across the 

 fore part of the thorax, the centre and a dot on each side of the 

 same colour : superior wings with several brown and black spots 

 on the costa, a sinuated and crenated black striga before, and 

 another, more waved, beyond the middle, containing 3 brown 

 spots, 2 of them formed by the inner side of the raised tufts ; 

 towards the posterior margin several of the nervures are irregu- 

 larly streaked with black, and on the margin which is edged with 

 a pale line they are terminated by 7 black dots ; cilia dark cine- 

 reous with 7 whitish streaks : inferior wings entirely cinereous 

 brown, cilia unspotted. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Haworth and the Author. 



These moths are so nearly allied to the Tortricida?, that if 

 they did not rest with their wings in a triangle, and the cater- 



