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Family 5. NOLID^. 



Antennae in the male with rows of bristles, or sometimes 

 shortly pectinated ; palpi long, drooping, pointed forward ; 

 fore wings ovate, usually with tufts of raised scales on the 

 disk ; thorax narrow, abdomen slender, short, rather blunt. 



Larv^ with fourteen legs (the usual pair on the seventh seg- 

 ment absent) ; short, thick, densely covered with long hairs. 



PuPiG rather slender, with long wing-cases ; in a spindle- 

 shaped or boat- shaped cocoon. 



Another group of doubtful position and relationship. For- 

 merly placed among the Pyralites, but certainly connected by 

 intermediate species with the genus Nudaria in the next 

 family. The species are all small. 



Genus 1. NOLA. 



This being the only genus, the characters already given 

 apply. 



1. N. cucuUatella, L. — Expanse, f inch. Fore wings 

 pale grey, with two transverse lines and the base blackish ; 

 hind wings pale grey. 



Antenna} thickened at the base, and furnished with a tuft 

 of long grey scales ; otherwise slender, but provided (in the 

 male) with rows of tufts of bristles, some of them longer than 

 the rest, furcate and branched, whitish ; head greyish ; palpi 

 whitish, long, rather drooping, and projecting forwards ; 

 thorax grey ; abdomen whitish-grey ; fore wings rather ovate, 

 all the margins gently rounded ; apex blunt, pale grey or 

 whitish, with a broad dark grey or greyish-black basal blotch 

 extending to the first transverse line, which is deep black, 

 slightly oblique and rather curved. Outside this is, usually, 

 a broad band of the white or whitish ground colour. The 

 second transverse line is much less distinct than the first : 



