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partly, but indistinctly yellow-bordered, tbe yellow colour being most distinct at the 



costal end ; a more distinct yellow quadrate spot at end of the cell : hindwing with 



a discal wavy indistinct blackish yellow-bordered Hne, and a yellow spot at end of 



the cell. Cilia brown, edged with cinereous-white, and with a yellow spot at the 



apex and near posterior angle. 



Expanse, c? -nj, 2 i^o inch. 



Genus NACOLEIA. 



Nacoh'ia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 934 (1859). 

 Semioceros, Meyrick, Trans. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 318. 



" "Wings elongate, rather narrow. Forewings subfalcate : hindwing with the 

 exterior border slightly bent. Body slender ; labial palpi short, porrect, third joint 

 conical, minute; antennce stout, very minutely serrated, angular in the middle, 

 slightly incrassated near the tips, which are convoluted ; abdomen extending beyond 

 hindwings, somewhat tumid towards the tip ; legs slender, smooth, spurs long." 

 Type, N. murcusalis. 



NACOLEIA PR.ETERITALI3. 

 Asopia pratcritalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 372 (1859). 



Male. Pale yellow, densely clouded with cinereous-brown speckles ; crossed by 



an antemedial and a postmedial indistinct blackish denticulated line, the latter 



undulated ; a blackish lunular mark at end of the cell, and a darker mark in the 



middle; some yellow and blackish dentate points on the costa. Body brown 



speckled ; abdomen with a blackish band at the base and tip ; forelegs with brown 



bands. 



Expanse to inch. 



NACOLEIA COSTISIGNALIS. 



Male and female. Forewing yellowish-ochreous ; whitish about the middle; 

 crossed by an erect antemedial, and an inwardly-oblique irregular postmedial whitish- 

 bordered black-speckled denticulated rather broad line ; both lines dilated at the 

 costal end ; a slight marginal deutated line ; an oval black mark on middle of the 

 costa; basal area with black-speckled patches, the lower medial area and the 

 maro-inal area also black speckled : hindwing yellowish-white, ochreous externally ; 

 some black-speckles at the base, a small streak at end of the cell, a lower discal 

 fascia, an irregular broad outer discal line, and a marginal line, the two latter with 

 intervening black speckles below the apex. Cilia with a slender inner bkck line. 

 Thorax and abdomen, fore and middle legs, with black bands. 



Expanse, c? to, 2 h inch. 



NACOLEIA CONTINGENS (Plate 179, Fig. 8, (?). 

 Glossy jsnescent-yellow : forewing crossed by an inwardly-oblique basal, an 



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