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Sect. II {Nolo). Antennae of male bipectinate to apex, with fine short branches. 



A. Fore wing suffused with brown to antemedial line cucullatella . 



B. Fore wing suffused with brown to beyond antemedial line... fuscibasalis. 



77. Nola cucullatella. 



Tinea cucullatella, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. i. p. .^37 (1758) ; Faun. Suec. p. 467 ; 

 Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 388, pi. 77. ff. 4-9 ; Stand. Cat. p. 51 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 372. 

 Tinea ludwigella, Miill. Faun. Fridr. p. 58 (1764). 

 Noctua 'palliola, Den. & Schiff. Syst. Verz. Wien, p. 69 (1776). 

 FhalcBna fi^gmaria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 163 (1794). 

 Pi/ralis palliolalis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Pvr. flf'. 13, 149 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. 



'Fr. viii. (2) p. 264, pi. 228. ff. 3, 4. 

 Kola fidiginalis, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iv. p. 63 (1834). 



Brovvnisli grey ; palpi at sides and tegulte brown ; abdomen with. 



blackish dorsal tuft at base. 

 Fore wing with the basal 

 area brown to the strong 

 curved black antemedia] line; 

 small tufts of scales at middle 

 and end of cell ; a fine black 

 postmedial line strongly ex- 

 curved from below costa to 

 vein 3, then angled inwards 

 'Sig.^.—Nolacucitllatella, (^. |. and with a pale brownish 



line parallel to its inner edge, 

 the area beyond it suffused with brown, with an indistinct irregularly 

 dentate subterminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hob. England ; France ; Germany, Zell. Coll. ; Switzeela.nd, 

 Erey Coll. ; Spain; Italy; Dalmatia. Exp. 24 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 33; Barrett, Brit. Lep. ii. p. 83, pi. 65. f. 1. 



Pale grey, sometimes brown at sides ; hairs grey ; tubercles 

 reddish ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, traversing several dark grey 

 patches ; the 2nd and 3rd thoracic somites with paired prominent 

 dorsal humps. Food-plant : blackthorn, hawthorn, apple ; 8-5. 



Cocoon boat-shaped. 



78. Nola fuscibasalis. (Plata XIX. fig. 7.) 

 Pimra fuscibasalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 505 (1896). 



Head and thorax pale brown ; palpi at sides, tegulge, and meta- 

 thorax blackish ; abdomen greyish. Fore wing with the basal 

 half brown, with pale patch at base of inner margin ; small tufts of 

 fuscous scales near base and at middle and end of cell ; a strongly 

 etirved black antemedial line ; the terminal half fuscous, with a 

 fine dentate postmedial line slightly excurved at middle on a whitish 

 ground ; an indistinct irregularly sinuous subterminal line. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Ilab. Cetlon, Puttalam,Hambantota(PoZg), type; Btjema, Thayet- 

 myo ( Watson), 1 5 • Eay- 14 millim. 



