NOLA.. 35 



terminal series of small spots and a terminal series of points. Hind 

 wing fuscous, with dark discoidal mark. 



Hah. Bhtttan {Dudgeon), 1 5 type. Exp. 22 millim. 



68. Nola phsea, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 2.)' 



5 . Greyish fuscous irrorated with black. Fore wing with 

 blackish patch at base of eosta ; traces of a curved antemedial line ; 

 an ill-defined subtriangular blackish patch on middle of eosta ; an 

 indistinct oblique postmedial line dentate between veins 5 and 2 ; 

 traces of a sinuous subterminal line. 



Hah. China, lehang {Hobson), 3 5 type. Ex£. 20-24- millim. 



69. Nola argentalis. 



Aglossa argentali», Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 89 ; Hmpsn. Moths lod. ii. 

 p. 143. 



Head and tegulae white ; palpi with the 2nd joint black at sides ; 



thorax white with blackish 

 patches ; legs black, the tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing silvery 

 white, irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; small tufts 



Fig. ^.-Nola argentalis, d ■ \- ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ middle and end of 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) cell; a large blackish patch at 



base of eosta ; the antemedial 

 line black, ill-defined, sinuous, oblique below the cell and with a 

 large quadrate blackish patch beyond it from eosta to median ner- 

 vure, with an obscure line from its outer extremity to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line obliqiie, blackish, dentate ; an obscure irregularly 

 sinuous subterminal line with a diffused blackish patch before and 

 beyond its middle; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with fuscous towards apex ; a discoidal lunule. 



Hah. SiKHiM, Moore Coll. type, (Lidderdale). Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Pale buff, with indistinct dark dorsal line and tufted 

 with short yellow hair mixed with a few long black hairs ; a tuft of 

 long black hair behind the head bearing the cast head-skins ; lateral 

 tubercles with tufts of hair, those on terminal segment long. Food- 

 plant, Castanojjsis indica ; ' mimicks ' a Coccid living on the same 

 leaves, which is buff with a tuft of black waxy filaments on anal 

 segments. 



Cocoon boat-shaped, fixed to a twig and covered with pieces of bark, 

 the tuft of long hair and exuviae of head fixed to its apex. {Dudgeon.) 



70. Nola melanota, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.) 



Head and thorax white ; palpi blackish at sides ; meso- and meta- 

 thorax with black patches ; abdomen tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing greyish white irrorated with some silvery scales, the medial 

 area tinged with brown ; small tufts of black scales near base and 

 at middle and upper angle of cell ; large blackish patches on eosta 



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