U NOLA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



1. Group: Nolinae. 

 This group col)sistt^ of about "iUO species distributeil over tlie wiiole globe, about one-fifth of which 

 occur in the Palearctic region. A conspicuous feature of these moths are spots on the wing with erect 

 scaling. The wings themselves are rather broad, grey or brown in colour, with fine and sharp markings. 

 'J"he tongue may be aborted, but is usually strongly developed; frons and face densely covered with hair; 

 palpi variable in length. Legs slender with long tibial spurs. Larvae stout, hairy, the larvae living exposed 

 are covered with thick, long, hairy fur. Thoy live on lichens, the inside of stalks, or even on leaves, into 

 which they do not, however, eat holes, l)ut of which they only gnaw off the surface, leaving the stratum 

 of the leaf. They pupate in a boat-shaped cocoon; the pupa is thin-skinned, and the moths appear after 

 three or four weeks in the summer. The insects settle on trunks of trees and on the underside of leaves, 

 often also on telegraph poles. The European species are not common, many being even rare and mostly 

 very local. They are on the wing at night, only flying in day-time when disturbed, and their movements 

 resemble those of the Micro-Lepidoptera. 



Herrich-Schaffeb pointed out their close relationship to the C'ymbids and Sarrothripids, 

 which is very evident in the shape of the cocoon, as well as in the structure of the bodj-. But as 

 Hampsox places Hyblaea, Bleniva and other undoubted Noctuids among the Sarroihropinae, the genera 

 Sarrothripa, Earias, etc., may be separated from the Nolinae and be dealt with among the Noctuids. 



1. Genus: No I a Leach. 



This genus embraces about 40 species, which are distributed over the entire globe. By far the 

 greater number inhabit Australia, from where over a dozen forms are already known. Only one species 

 occurs in Europe; the remainder of the genus is scattered over all parts of the globe. The Nolas have a 

 rather large, ovate head, strongly convex, large eyes, no ocelli, long poi'rect palpi with a densely scaled 

 middle segment. The antennae are considerably more than half the length of the costa, and strongly 

 ciliate in the ^. Thorax strongly built, without tufts; legs slender, the middle tibia with a pair of spurs. 

 ^Vings very broad, with strongly curved costal margin, and long oblique outer margin, the margin of the 

 hindwing rounded and bearing long fringes. Abdomen regularly cylindrical, projecting beyond the anal 

 angle only very slightly or not at all. The larva of only one species is known, stout, with 14 legs, 

 rather sparse!}- covered with hairs; pupa a little depressed in the centre. The moths like to settle on 

 barked timber, e. g. telegraph jjoles. 



cueulalella. N, cuculatella L. (= palliolalis Hbn.) (10 b). Forewing light ash-grey with dark grey-brown basal 



area, which is separated from the light grey outer portion of the wing by a black curved line with a 

 whitish edge on the outer side. In this cuculatella differs from Roeselia togatulalis, which is the only 

 similar species, but is twice as large. The whole of Central and South Europe, Spain, Italy and the 

 Balkan Peninsula. — In continental specimens the Mhitish grey outer portion of the forewing is usually fairly 

 uniform in colour, with hardly any darker shading. — In English specimens this outer portion is dark 



fuliffinalis. brownish; this is fuliginalis StcpJi. — Larva flat and short, with hairy warts, yellowish grey with broad, 

 light, dorsal stripe, dark lateral lines and black head. It hibernates, and feeds until May or the beginning of 

 June, lives on fruit-trees, sloes, white-thorn, mountain-ash and other deciduous trees; it pupates in a boat- 

 shaped cocoon which is intermixed with woody fibres, the walls being firt built up and the cocoon then 

 closed at the top. The moth not rare in July, on boards and fences. 

 impura. N. impura Mann (10 c). Like the preceding, but the dull white outci- portion of the forewing 



crossed by transverse ochre-brown shadowy stripes, one of which contains the minute discocelhilar dot. 

 Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria, also from Brussa. 

 cmmbi- ^_ crambiformis Bebel. Dirty ashv grev, forewing with a iialr brownish tinge; a transverse line, 



externally elbowed below the cell, between the basal third and the rest of the forewing; another line, 

 light, edged with dark on its inner side, and bent at the costa in the $, borders the outer portion and 

 runs straight from the costal to the inner margin. A dark, irregular, wavy line runs through the marginal 

 area itself. The same size as impura, Iiut the body more delicate and slenderer; moreover, it is character- 

 ized by ver}- long, porrect palpi, which give the insect the appearance of a Crambus. One ^ from 

 PC'XGELERS collection from Uralsk; the $ described by Rebel from specimens from Orenburg. 

 viiasnia' ^* "I'COphasma Bull. Only in Japan, where it reaches the Palearctic region on the main island; 



otherwise an Indian moth. The outer portion of the forewing is traversed by rows of spots instead of 

 transverse shadowy lines; hindwing thinly scaled. On the forewing the erect scales are in the same places 

 as in cueulalella, viz.: above the base, over the centre of the wing, and below the costa before the apex 

 of the cell. 



phaea. N. phaea Hamps. (10 c). Only the $ known. Uniformly dark grey-brown in colour, shaded with 



black, the central portion sHghtly darker; a blackish longitudinal spot above the base and another above 

 the apex of the cell of the forewing. I-chang on the Yang-tse-kiang. 



