NOLA. 417 



faintly tinged witli brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with blackish, a blackish discoidal spot. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi ( Anderson), 1 6 type. Exp. 

 10 millini. 



70 b. Nola leucalea. ( Plate XXIV. fig. 5.) 

 Nola leucalea, Hmpsn. AM.N.H. (7) xix. p. 229 (1907). 



Head and thorax white, sometimes tinged with pale brown ; 

 palpi brownish at sides; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with brown and sometimes tinged with pale 

 brown ; anteniedial line fine, dark, exeurved below costa and 

 incurved at median nervure ; medial line oblique towards costa, then 

 slightly sinuous; tufts of dark scales in cell before the anteniedial 

 line, in middle and at upperangle ; postmedial line slightly incurved 

 from costa to vein 1, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; subterminal 

 line oblique towards costa and exeurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa ( Goryndon), 16 ; Transvaal, White E. 

 (Cooke), 2 5, Piet Retief (Crawshaw), 1 $ type, Reitfontein 

 (Janse), 16, 2 £, Gremsbockfontein (Janse), 1 6, Bultfontein 

 (Janse), 1 ? . Exp. 20-22 millim. 



76c. Nola cretacea, n. sp. (Plate XXIV. tig. 6.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing white faintly tinged with ochreous brown and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; slight anteniedial and medial tufts 

 of dark scales in upper part of cell; postmedial line formed by 

 diffused dark scales, exeurved below costa and beyond lower angle 

 of cell, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; subterminal line 

 rather diffused, brownish, exeurved below costa and at middle, 

 incurved at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing white. 



Sab. X. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 ] 1 millini. 



80c. Nola promelaena, n. sp. (Plate XXIV. tig. 7.) 



6 ■ Head white tinged with red-brown, the antennae blackish 

 towards base; thorax red-brown mixed with whitish, the tijis of 

 tegulae and prothorax black; tarsi black ringed with white; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown, the costal area brorated with black; 

 anteniedial and two medial dark marks on costa and in cell; 

 postmedial dark points on veins (! to '.] ; subterminal line rather 

 diffused, very oblique and blackish from costa long before apex to 



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