NOLOSIA. ^THOSIA. 385 



Genus NOLOSIA, nov. 



Type, N. marmorata. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi minute; frons clothed with rough scales; antennae 

 of male bipectinate, with long branches ; femora and tibia; clothed with long 

 hair, the spurs moderate. Fore wing narrow ; vein 2 from just beyond middle 

 of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6 from below upper angle \ 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards end 

 of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from towards end of cell. 



821. Nolosia marmorata, n. sp. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grej^ largely mixed with black- 

 brown hair. Fore wing silvery 

 white irrorated with blaek- 

 brown ; very ill-defined ante- 

 medial and medial bands, 

 more strongly irrorated with 

 black-brown and with sinuous 

 edges ; a discoidal point ; a 

 postmedial spot on costa and 

 a sinuous band from vein 5 

 Fig. 298.— iVo/osw «zar/;zomfe, c? . \. to inner margin ; an obscure 



dentate subterminal line, and 



fine terminal line. Hind wing with a slight yellowish tinge ; 



traces of diffused medial and subterminal brown lines. 



Hah. Madagascae, Betsileo {Cowan), 2 (S , type. Exj). 18 



millim. 



Genus JETHOSIA, nov. 



Type, yE. ectrocia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, reaching as far as frons, which is 

 rounded ; antenniB of male witli bristles and cilia ; tibife with the spurs 

 moderate. Fore wing narrow ; the costa arched, the inner margin excised at 

 tornus ; vein 1 sinuous ; 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 

 5 from well above angle ; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 7 from 

 beyond 9; 10, 11 free, 11 curved and approximated to 12 ; male with an 

 elliptical patch of androconia on underside above and below median nervure 

 from before middle to end of cell. Hind wing with the costa strongly arched, 

 the termen excurved between veins 7 and 1 ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 absent ; 7 from well before angle of cell ; 8 from before 

 middle of cell ; male with an elliptical patch of androconia en upperside 

 below costa from before middle to origm of vein 7 ; a tuft of hair on inner 

 margin near base. 



822. .ffithosia ectrocta, n. sp. 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous white, irrorated with black ; 

 palpi black ; abdomen tinged with pink. Fore wing ochreous white, 

 irrorated with black ; a black point on costa near base ; a waved 

 autemedial line bent inwards to costa and obsolete towards inner 

 margin ; black points at angles of cell and a point on costa just 

 beyond them ; a subterminal line slightly angled at vein 4. 



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