48 LITHOSIID^. 



Notata parva. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Expanse i incli. 



Male. Fore wing immaculate, of a pale straw-colour, slightly brighter at outer margin ; 

 with a large patch of brown scales on the underside, filling the oiiter two thirds of the cell, 

 and extending below the median ncrvure. Hind wing paler; with a similar patch of brown 

 scales on the upperside. Anteunse, palpi, legs, head, thorax, and abdomen pale straw-colour. 



Nola major. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 13.) 



Expanse W inch. 



Female. Fore wing pure white or smoky white, with a few scattered pale or dark brown 

 scales ; two large distinct smoky-brown triangular patches on the costa, one basal, oue at end 

 of cell, the latter with a round blotch of raised dark brown scales at its apex in the cell ; two 

 narrow indistinct bands, formed of pale and dark brown scales, from median to submedian 

 nervures, one at middle of cell, one at its end ; a narrow waved inwardly oblique dark brown 

 baud bevond end of cell ; marginal and submarginal indistinct difl'uscd irregular bands, obsolete 

 towards the apex; a series of small dark antecilial spots ; cilia white, alternating with brown. 

 Hind wing entire smoky brown ; cilia paler at base and tips. Palpi, antennae, head, and 

 thorax pure w liite above ; abdomen smoky brown, with ^x\e.v segmental bands. Underside 

 entirely smoky brown. 



Nearest to Nota pascua ,h\\t very distinct. 



Nola minuta. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 14.) 



Expanse ^^j ii^ch. 



Male. Fore wing smoky brown, dotted with darker scales ; three large indistinct dark 

 triangular blotches on the costa, one basal, one at middle of cell, one at its end, the apices of 

 each of the two latter forming dark marks in the cell ; two narrow waved indistinct bands 

 I)arallel to the outer margin, one just beyond the end of the cell, the other submarginal. 

 Cilia of fore wing smoky, tipped with darker brown. Hind wing and cilia pearly grey, the 

 latter darker towards the tips. Antenure, head, thorax, and abdomen smoky brown. 



Superficially very like Lebena microphasma, Butler, from Japan, which has heavily- 

 pectinated antenme in the male instead of ciliated. 



Nola nigrifascia. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Expanse | inch. 



Female. I'^ore wing white, irrorated with fuscous scales ; three raised tufts of scales in 

 the cell, near its base, at middle, and at eud ; a curved, somewhat maculate, narrow, black 

 postmedial baud; the fuscous suflusion deeper just before this band, and forming a waved 



