CELAMA. 23 



Nola candidalis, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 258 (1892). 



? JVola im-pudica, Christ. Deutscb. ent. Zeit., Lep. vi. p. 88 (1893). 



Head and thorax white ; abdomen pale brown with white 

 segmental bands. Fore wing whitish, more or less completely 

 suffused with pale yellow-brown and irrorated with fuscous, the 

 basal, inner medial, and postmedial areas usually with white 

 patches ; tufts of fuscous scales near base, in middle, and at 

 upper angle of cell ; an obscure curved antemedial line ; the post- 

 medial line acutely angled below costa, then obliquely sinuous, and 

 with an obscure waved diffused fuscous line on its inner side ; 

 a more or less prominent irregularly sinuous subterminal line ; 

 the termen brown or with patches of brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line and line through the cilia. Hind wing whitish, more or less 

 suffused with fuscous-brown especially in male ; a fine dark 

 terminal line, 



Ab. 1. candidalis. Fore wing with the medial area more uni- 

 formly dark, 



Hab. Britain ; Cente, and S, Eueope ; Livonia, Frey and ZeU, 

 Colls,; Corsica; Kieghistan ; Transcaucasia; Armenia, $ cotype 

 candidalis ; Amur, Ea'/>. 20 millim. Type t candidalis in Coll. 

 Staudinger, 



Larva, Meyrick, Lep. Brit. p. 32 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. p. 190, pi. 66. f. 4, 

 'Dull pink or purplish pink ; hairs grey-brown ; dorsal line 

 ochreous yellow, interrupting a series of black V-shaped marks ; a 

 subdorsal series of black linear marks ; spiracular line very faint, 

 yellowish; head black-brown. Food-plants, Trifolium, Lotus, etc.: 

 9-5. 



Subsp. 1. turanica, Staud. Stett. ent, Zeit, xlvlii. p. 77 (1887); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 375. 



Smaller : hind wing of male with hardly a trace of brown 

 suffusion. 



Hah. C. Asia, Marghelau, 1 $ , Exp. 15 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Staudinger, 



40. Celama thymula, 



Nola thymula. Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn, Lyon, xvi, p. 9, pi. 85. ff. 11, 13 

 (1868) ; Staud. Cat. p. 52 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 374. 



Grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with slight tufts of 

 scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; the antemedial 

 line angled below costa, then oblique, black, prominent; the post- 

 medial line acutely angled below costa, incurved between veins 3 

 and 1, and with trnces of a line parallel to its inner edge; an 

 irregularly sinuous subterminal line ; some brown spots on costa 

 towards apex ; cilia irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous. 



Hah. S, France, Frey Coll. ; Spain, Zell. Coll. Exp. 20 millim. 



