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76. Nola apera. (Plate XTX. fig. 6.) 



JS'ola apera, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 404 (1897). 

 Kola involuta, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. tI. p. 42 (1898). 

 Nola ea-posita, Dyar, J. N. Y. Eut. Soc. vi. p. 43 (1898). 



Gre}-, slightly tinged with brown ; palpi fuscous at sides. Pore 

 wing irrorated with black scales ; small tufts of scales near base 

 and at middle and upper angle of cell ; costa with some brown 

 points; traces of a curved antemedial line; an oblique postmedial 

 series of dark points ; an obscure subterminal line with slight black 

 streaks on the veins ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 whitish, tinged with fuscous towards termen. 



ITah. Califoknia, Los Angelos, type t S involuta in U.S. Kat. 

 Mus. ; Akizona, type t eosposita in U.S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico, Jalapa- 

 (TrujiUo), 1 <?, 3 2, type; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 (5, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. 5 Bolivia, Chaco ; Peeu, Vilcan. Exp. IG 

 millim. 



Larva, Dyar, Psyche, vi. p. 110 (hyemalis) & p. 248 (minuscnla). 



Egg pale green, spheroidal, much flattened at base, with large 

 contiguous depressions ; diameter -33 millim. 



Larva, 2nd stage : head, cervical shield, and anal plate black ; body 

 thick: warts small, dark brown, bearing three or four short blackish 

 hairs ; colour pale whitish with diff'used brown subdorsal shade. 



3rd and 4th stages : head pale brown with black ocelli. 



5th stage : body flattened, with three rows of large shining sub- 

 dorsal dark brown warts, the 8rd row pale, bearing spreading, long, 

 thin, white and blackish hairs ; row 1 subdorsal, two on each segment 

 on somites 1-3 ; 2 lateral, 3 subventral with some very minute 

 warts, 4 below. Cervical shield large, deep brown, with a whitish 

 dorsal line bisecting it ; colour dirty white ; a pair of broad deep 

 brown subdorsal bands, somewhat irregular, narrow on somites 2 

 and 3, and connected by a transverse bar over the dorsum on 

 somite 6 and sometimes also on somite 4 : length 5 millim. 



6th stage : body wider than high, rounded, hardly tapering ; four 

 pairs of abdominal j^rolegs ; wart 1 very large, oblong ; 2 and 3 

 large ; 4 very small, subventral. Colour varying much ; ground- 

 colour nearly white or tinged with reddish ; body shaded with 

 blackish brown ; a double dorsal, two waved lateral, and a straight 

 substigmatal line ; the shading may be reduced to a few reddish 

 streaks, but on somites 2 and 3 there is always a patch of white 

 bordered by a waved subdorsal black line ; warts pale, except I'ows 

 1 and 2 on somites 4-11, which are cinnamon-brown or blackish ; 

 cervical shield deep browii, bisected ; spiracles black ; hair of irre- 

 gular length, longest at extremities, blackish. 



Food-plant, SalLv. 



