NOLA. 



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Sect. II {Kola). Antenna of male bipectinate to apex, with fine short branches. 



A. Fore wing suffused with brown to antemedial line cucidlalella. 



B. Fore wing suffused with brown to bey ondanteiuedial line... fiiscibasalis. 



77. Nola cTicullatella. 



Tinea rwullafella, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. i. p. .537 (17r)8) ; Faun. Suec. p. 467 ; 



Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 38S, pi. 77. if. 4-9 ; Stand. Cat. p. 51 ; Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p. 372. 

 Tinea ludwigella, Miill. Faun. Fridr. p. .58 (1764). 

 Noctua palliola, Den. & Schitf. Syst. Verz. Wien, p. 69 (1776). 

 Fhalmna fi/gmaria, Pabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 163 (1794). 

 ■ P>/ralis ■paliiolalis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Pyr. ff. 13, 149 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. 



' Fr. viii. (2) p. 264, pi. 228. ff. 3, 4. 

 Kolafuliginalis, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iv. p. 63 (1834). 



Brownish grey ; palpi at sides and tegulsE brown ; abdomen with 



blackish dorsal tuft at base. 

 Fore wing with the basal 

 area brown to the strong 

 curved black antemedial line; 

 small tufts of scales at middle 

 and end of cell ; a fine black 

 |j^^^/ /V;H t^^>^^ 1p^ postmedial line strongly ex- 



'""■^■sim/W II \^ xxy Pv.-i-^'i> curved from below costa to 



vein 3, then angled inwards 

 Y\g.9.—Noiaciiai!latena,S. |. and with a pale brownish 



line parallel to its inner edge, 

 the area beyond it suffused with brown, with an indistinct irregularly 

 dentate subterminal line. Hind Aving fuscous brown. 



Bah. England ; France ; GERMANr, Zell. Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. : Spain; Italy; Dalmatia. £".17). 24 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 33; Barrett, Brit. Lep. ii. p. 83, pi. 6.5. f. 1. 



Pale grey, sometimes brown at sides ; hairs grey ; tubercles 

 reddish ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, traversing several dark grey 

 patches ; the 2nd and 3rd thoracic somites with paired prominent 

 dorsal humps. Food-plant : blackthorn, hawthorn, apple ; 8-5. 



Cocoon boat-shaped. 



78. Nola fuscibasalis. (Plato XIX. fig. 7.) 



Fimra fuscibasalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 505 (1896). 



Head and thorax pale brown ; palpi at sides, teguUne, and meta- 

 tborax blackish; abdomen greyish. Fore wing with the basal 

 half brown, with pale patch at base of inner margin ; small tufts of 

 fuscous scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; a strongly 

 curved black antemedial line ; the terminal half fuscous, with a 

 fine dentate postmedial line slightly excurved at middle on a whitish 

 ground ; an indistinct irregularly sinuous subterminal line. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Hah. Cetlon, Puttalam,Hambantota(Po^«), type ; Burma, Thayct- 

 myo ( Watson), 1 $ . Exp. 14 millim. 



