COMACLA. — POLIODULE. 331> 



B. Antenn.ie of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; fore wing with the apex 

 rounded. 



713. Comacla senex. 



Bomhijx senex, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 236-237 (I804r) ; Stepli. 111. Brit. 



Eut., Haust. ii. p. 84 ; Boisd. leones, ii. p. 113, pi. 58. f. 10; Stand. Oat. 



p. 62 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 360. 

 Nudaria rotunda. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 156 (1809). 



Pale yellowish brown ; vertex of head with a fuscous spot. Fore 



Aving with curved antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial series 

 of fuscous stria? on the veins ; 

 a prominent diseoidal spot ; 

 a series of points on the cilia. 

 Hind wing paler, with slight 

 diseoidal lunule ; traces of 

 a subtermiual series of striae 

 Fig. 2'^\.— Comacla Remx, J. \. on tlie veins and of a series 



of points on the cilia. 



Hah. N., Centr., and S. Europe, Zell. and Frey Colls.; j^. Asia. 

 Exp. 22 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 30; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 196, pi. 66. f. 1. 



Dark grey with an ochreous tinge; hairs grey-black. Food-plant, 

 Lichens ; 8-5. 



Sect. II. Proboscis fully developed ; antennae pectinate in both sexes. 



*714. Comacla juvenis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Niidaria juvenis, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 412 (1893). 



5 . Fuscous brown ; legs with blackish bands. Fore wing with 

 subbasal black spots on costa and below cell ; an irregularly waved 

 autemedial line ex23anding into a black spot on costa and bent out- 

 wards below the cell ; a black point in middle of cell and diseoidal 

 lunule ; dentate medial and postmedial lines commencing as promi- 

 nent bars on costa, then strongly bent outwards round the end of 

 cell and again incurved ; some diffused blackish subterminal spots 

 bent outAvards to termen at middle ; a terminal series of striae. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, with diseoidal spot more prominent on 

 uuderside. 



Hab. W. Africa, Ogove K., type t $ in Coll. Holland. Evp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus POLIODULE, nov. 



Type, P. xanthodelta. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons ; 

 anteunte bipectinate, with moderate branches ; hind tibia; with the medial spurs 

 absent. Fore wing rather narrow, clothed with rough hair ; vein 2 from 

 beyond middle of cell; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8, 9 absent; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 

 3 from near angle; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 stalked; 8 from before middle 

 of cell. 



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