NIGETIA. 



-R(ESELIA. 



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104. Nigetia formosalis. 



Niqetia formosalls, Wlk. xxxiv. 150(3 (18(35). 



Noln melaiiopa, Zell. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxii. p. 458, pi. 2. f. 2 

 (1872) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 379. 



Head black, the vertex white ; thorax and first two segments of 



abdomen white, the rest 

 of abdomen brownish ir- 

 rorated with black and 

 with black dorsal tufts on 

 two medial segments ; 

 pectus and ventral sur- 

 face of abdomen blackish. 

 Fore wing white slightly 

 tinged with ochreous ; a 

 broad irregular black 

 costal fascia with oblique 



Fig. 16. — Nigetia formosalis, (^ . 



white striae towards apex ; a broad oblique black medial band with 

 waved edges ; a leaden grey band just inside termen, with some 

 brownish suffusion on its inner edge ; a series of small black ter- 

 minal spots increasing in size towards apex. Hind wing fuscous, 

 with pale sinuous line towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., type, type melanopa Zell. Coll. ; Buffalo, N. Carolina, 

 Texas, Grote Coll. Ex-p. 18-24 millim. 



Genus RffiSELIA. 



Type. 



Raeselia, Hlibn. Verz. p. 397 (1827) togatidalis. 



Sarbena, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Sou., Zool. tI. p. 137 (1862) ... lignifera. 



Uraba, Wlk. xxviii. 448 (1863) %cms. 



Evonima, Wlk. xxxii. 505 (1S65) aperia. 



C'cesa, Wlk. xsxv. 1728 (1866) lugens. 



Toxoloma, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 9 (1874), non descr lugens. 



Mimerastria, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p. 236 (1881) mandschuriana. 



Callinola, Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 33 (1889) scripla. 



Proneca, Swinli. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 193 fola. 



CyphotoTpsyche, Hinp.sn. Trans Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 297 usfvpcnnis. 



Meganola, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 42 (1898) minuscida. 



Proboscis fully developed or weak ; palpi porrect, downcurved, sometimes 

 obliquely upturned, extending about tlie length of head and roughly sealed ; 

 maxillary palpi minute ; frons with slight tuft of scales ; antenmt with tuft of 

 scales on basal joint ; tibiie with the spurs long. Fore wing triangular ; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 4. 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked * ; 1 1 oblique. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4 absent 

 or stalked with 3 ; 5 from near middle of discocellulars or above angle of cell ; 

 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



* In micans vein 10 arises from the cell, then strongly anastomoses with 



7, 8, y. 



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