NOLINiE. O 



food- plant; sometimes feeding in webs, wMlst in Gelama interneUa 

 the larva feeds in the interior of the young fleshy shoots of Bubus, 

 but has retained its bright coloration and tufts of hair and forms a 

 boat-shaped cocoon in the open, so that the habit of internal feeding 

 must be of very recent acquirement. 



The NolincB probably arose from a very early Arctian form which 

 had affinities in the Noctiddce to Hypena and Sm'rotJir-ipa, both of 

 which have raised tufts of scales in the cell of fore wing — the former 

 having the prolegs on somite (J of the larva absent as in many other 

 JSfoctuidce, whilst the latter forms a boat-shaped cocoon exactly like 

 that of the Nolince, and also has the bar-shaped retinaculum, both 

 of which characters occur in the group of Noctuid genera comprising 

 Earias, Halias, Carea, and allies. 



Of the genera of Nolince, Pexinola and Melnleucia represent 

 terminal developments from archaic forms, whilst ArcJdnola with 

 large triangularly-scaled maxillary palpi, these being invisible in 

 the other genera, represents probably the form nearest to the 

 ancestor of the other recent genera, which are all closely allied.. 



Phtlogeny of the Nolin^. 

 Neonola. Pisara. 



Celaina. Pcecilonola. 



Nola. MelanograpMa. 



Bialitho]ptera. Niqetia. 



Eoeselia. 

 Zia. 

 ArcJvinola. Melahucia. Pexinola. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Pore wing with veins 7, 8 stalked. 

 a. Fore wing with veins 9, 10 absent. 



a^. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle of 



cell Neonola, p. 4. 



b^. Hind wing with vein 5 from well above angle 

 of cell or middle of discocellulars. 



a^. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 stalked Pisar\, p. 5. 



6^. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from cell Oelama, p. 5. 



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