NOLA. 



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*84. Nola epicentra. (Plato XIX. fig. 11.) 



Sorocosfia epicenfra, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 721 (1886) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 377. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; abdomen greyish ; 

 fore tarsi ringed with black. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 ochreoiis grey and with a few black scales ; the tufts of scales pale 

 ochreous tipped with white ; a fine black subbasal line not reaching 

 inner margin ; the antemedial line fine, black, defined by white on 

 outer side, curved and angled inwards on median nervure ; a fine 

 oblique striga from costa to the tuft at upper angle of cell ; the 

 postmedial line double, fine, black, and minutely waved, oblique 

 from costa to vein 5, where it is angled, then retracted, the spaces 

 between the lines filled in with pale brownish; an irregular sub- 

 terminal series of black points with a prominent spot above vein 6 ; 

 a prominent terminal series of points. Hind wing greyish white. 



Hah. X. S. AVales, Sydney. Exp. 25 millim, Figured from a 

 drawing in Coll. Meyrick. 



85. Nola nigrisparsa. 



Nola nigrisparsa, Hmpsn. Moths Incl. iv. p. 501 (1896) ; Dudgeon, J. 

 Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 21. 



2 . Head and thorax white irrorated with black scales ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with black scales ; large tufts of scales near base and at 

 middle and upper angle of cell ; a black streak on base of subcostal 

 nervure; a rather indistinct strongly curved antemedial black line ; 

 the postmedial line with blackish patch on inner side from costa to 

 vein 5, waved, strongly excurved from below costa to vein 3, then 

 angled outwards on vein 1 and with a line parallel to its inner 

 side ; an irregularly sinuous subterminal line, retracted to costa. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. .Bhutan {Dudgeon), 1 5 type, Exp. 20 millira. 



80. Nola melanogramma, n. sp. (Plate XIX. f%. 12.) 



S . Head white ; palpi black at sides ; thorax and abdomcTi 

 grey-white largely mixed with black; tegulie with a black band. 

 Fore wing grey-white, with small tufts of scales near base and at 

 middle and end of cell ; a triangular black patch at base of costa ; 

 the antemedial line black, with a black patch on it in cell and 

 dentate on median nervure and vein 1 ; the postmedial line double, 

 dentate, bent outwards from below costa, where it is acutely angled, 

 to vein 5, then oblique ; an irregularly sinuous subterminal line 

 sharply angled below costa ; a terminal series of black points; cilia 

 strongly irrorated with black. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. X. S. Wales {Raynor)^ 1 S type. Exp. 22 millim. 



