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Nodaria, Guen. Delt. et PyraL 63. 

 Herminia, p., Herr.-S chaff. 



Body slender. Palpi much curved, smoothly squamous, as- 

 cending above the head ; third joint very acute. Autennae of the 

 male hardly pubescent and slightly increasing in thickness for one- 

 third of the length, thence to the tips abruptly slender, pubescent 

 and with two bristles on each joint. Abdomen depressed, smooth, 

 abruptly conical. Legs stout ; fore tibiae robust, villose, tufted ; 

 fore tarsi very short. Wings rounded ; fringe broad. Fore wings 

 stout, squamous, narrow at the base ; lines denticulated, broken ; 

 areolet much straitened, and as if obliterated. Hind wings unlike 

 the fore wings in colour, with no lines. 



Europe. 



1. Nodaria hispanalis. 



Flavescente-murina ; alee anticce lineis tribus bene determinatis, 

 interiore et exteriore nigricantibus, hac arcuata denticulately 

 ilia informij linea submarginali e punctis Jlavescente-albis 

 intus subumbratis, strigis marginalibus nigris, reniformi 

 nigra subovali bene delerminata ; posticce pallidiores. 



Nodaria hispanalis, Guen. Belt, et PyraL 64, 77. 



Spain. 



2. Nodaria ^thiopalis. 



N. hispanali affinis, pallidior, ferreo-cinerea, orbiculari et reni- 

 formi concoloribus obscuro marginatis, linea submarginali e 

 punctis pallidis nigricante umbratis ; postica pallidiores. 



Herminia aethiopialis, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schm. 386, f. 612. 

 Nodaria aethiopialis, Guen. Delt. et PyraL 6o 9 79. 



Turkey. 



3. Nodaria nodosalis. 



N. hispanali affinis, pallidior, magis rufescens ; ala an ticce linea 

 marginali pallida, lineis interiore et exteriore minus distinctis ; 

 postica magis flavescentes. 



Herminia nodosalis, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schm. 385, f. 605, 

 Nodaria nodosalis, Guen. Delt. et PyraL Go, 80, 



Sicily. 



