NOLIN^. d 



food- plant ; sometimes feeding iu webs, whilst in Celama internella 

 the larva feeds in the interior of the young fleshy shoots of lluhus, 

 but has retained its bright coloration and tufts of hair and forms a 

 boat-shaped cocoon in the open, so that the habit of internal feeding 

 must be of very recent acquirement. 



The Nolince probably arose from a very early Arctian form which 

 had affinities in the Noctuidce to Hypena and Sarrothripa, both of 

 which have raised tufts of scales in the cell of fore wing — the former 

 having the prolegs on somite (J of the larva absent as in many other 

 Noctuidce, whilst the latter forms a boat-shaped cocoon exactly like 

 that of the Nolina', and also has the bar-shaped retinaculum, both 

 of which characters occur in the group of Noctuid genera comprising 

 Earias, Halias, C'area, and allies. 



Of the genera of Nolince, Pexinola and Melcdeucia represent 

 terminal developments from archaic forms, whilst ArcliinoJa with 

 large triangularly-scaled maxillary palpi, these being invisible in 

 the other genera, represents probably the form nearest to the 

 ancestor of the other recent genera, which are all closely allied. 



Phtlogeny of the Nolinje. 

 Neonola. Pisara. 



Celama. Pcecilonola. 



Nola. Melanograpkia. 



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 I 

 Bicdithoptera. Nigetia. 



Easdia. 



Zia. 



Archinola. Mekdeucia. Pexinola. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Fore wing with veins 7, 8 stalked. 

 a. Fore wiug with veins 9, 10 absent. 



a^. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle of 



cell Neonola, p. 4. 



b^. Hind wing witii vein 5 from well above angle 

 of cell or middle of discocellulars. 



a?. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 stallied Pisarv, p. 5. 



li^. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from cell CELA^rA, p. 5. 



b2 



