128 STNTOMID^. 



239. Pseudonaclia puella. 



NacUa puella, Bohd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596, no. 120 (1847) ; Wal- 

 lengr. Svensk. Handl. v. (4) p. 13 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. i. p. 106. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi orange-yellow ; 

 abdomen orange at sides. Fore wing ferruginous red-brown ; a 

 quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, with a bar- shaped spot below 



it across snbmedian interspace ; a 

 rounded postmedial spot below the 

 costa, and a quadrate spot from 

 just above veins 4 and 5 to vein 3. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, with a 

 large black discoidal spot ; an 

 p- ^Q irregular terminal black band, the 



Pseudonaclia pueila, cj". i- orange running out to near the 



margin between veins 7 and 2, 

 the black running inwards along vein 2 to the cell. 



5 with the spot below the cell reduced ; hind wing without 

 the discoidal spot. 



ITab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteird), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salis- 

 bury {MarshaU), 1 ,^ 2 $ ; Natal {J. V. GoocJi), 1 c? • Exp., 

 6 22, 2 30 millim. 



Genus MICRONACLIA, nov. 



Type, M. simplex. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porreet, extending just beyond the frons ; 

 anteniiaj bipectinate, with branches of moderate length ; hind tibiae with the 

 medial spurs absent. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 

 from near upper angle : 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, 8 very short : 9 absent. Hind 

 wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3 and 5 stalked; 4 and 7 

 absent, 



A. Fore wing black, with orange markings. 



a. Fore wing with orange patch in end of cell muscella. 



b. Fore wing with medial orange band tenera. 



B. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown simplex. 



*240. Micronaclia muscella. 



Syntomis mvsceUa, Mab. 0. E.. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxviii. p. clrxxviii (1884); 



'Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 107. 

 Naclia'fiavia, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p. 5, pi. 1. ff. 1,2 (1893). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; palpi, vertex of 

 head, base and extremity of antennge.and vertex of thorax fuscous; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of somewhat triangular fuscous patches. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown ; a yellow patch on costa near base, con- 

 joined on median nervure to a large patch on inner area with 

 indented outer edge ; a quadrate patch in end of cell extending 

 nearly up to costa, below which it is dentate outwards ; a sub- 

 terminal patch between veins 1 and 3 and another from vein 4 to 

 just below costa. Hind wing yellow, with terminal fuscous band 

 expanding somewhat towards costa. 



