216 NOCTUID-«. 



from Costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, bent outwards 

 at median nervure, then waved and with a blackish spot before it 

 above vein 1 : clavitbrm detincd by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with blockish centres and white annuli, both rather triangular, the 

 latter with dark shade from it to postmedial line, which is defined 

 by pale brown on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 white, defined by a fuscous patch before it at costa and the area 

 beyond it fuscous, arising from apex and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of black hiuules defined by white ; cilia purplish 

 grey, with black line through them and intersected by white. 

 Hind wing white with a slight ochreous tinge ; a terminal series of 

 black stri;ie, in female the terminal area tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with black, a black 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 

 Hah. Natal, Durban (Gueinzncs, Leiyli), 2 cj" , 1 5 type. Exy. 

 30-38 millim. 



Genus THOLERA. ^ 



Type. 



Tholera, Tliibn. Verz. p. 214 (1827) cespitis. 



Ii'euronia, Iliibn. ^'erz. p. 215 (1837). nee Leach, Neiir. 1815 ... piipularis. 



Charmas, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 108 (1829) cespitk. 



Epineuronia , Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155 (1901) popularis. 



Proboscis weak, non-functional ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with long hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; froiis smooth, not prominent ; 

 eyes not ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; tibise fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair at base and with dorsal crests on 1st segment. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the ceil near baae. 



Sect. I. (Neuronia). Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to 



apex. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour brown popularis. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey ajnericana. 



1434. Tholera popularis. 



Bombyx popularis, Fabr. Svst. Ent. p. 577 (1775); Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 279 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 189 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 155. 

 iVoc^'wa ^mOTn;/s, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 59. 

 Bomhyx lolii, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 48. ff. 1-5 (1785) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



pi. 90. f. 5. 

 Epineuronia hilaris, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 165 (1901). 



Head and thorax clothed with red-brown and white scales and 

 hair ; ])atagia with some black scales at edges : abdomen ochreous 

 white tineed with red-brown and fuscous. Fore wing brownish 

 grey slightly irrorated with black, the veins streaked with white ; 

 the siibbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and 

 cell ; the antemedial line double, excurved below costa and strongly 



