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NOLA. By Dr. M. Draitdt. 
maia. 
niveibasis. 
mesocyma. 
pulverea. 
sabulosa. 
mesogra- 
pha. 
triplaga. 
caelata. 
perluta. 
bably occurs in 4 continents in little modified geographical forms. As the young larvae frequently live on lichens 
—- some even throughout their lives —, they are not so much bound to the growth of rich vegetation, and in 
entirely unwooded districts devoid of plants (Arizona, Central Mexico etc.) we meet yet with representatives 
of the Noliclae, just like we find in the nearly unwooded Egypt just as many Nolidae as we find in exuberant 
districts of Central Europe. In America the same is the case as in the Old World, i. e. in tracts of land of the 
size of Germany we may approximately find from half to a whole dozen of species of the Nolidae, so that the 
geographical distribution of the family is almost uniform on the whole globe; only in Costa Rica which, however, 
has been well explored, we find an accumulation of species. Otherwise it is quite immaterial whether one collects 
in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Madagascar, Ceylon, Asia Minor, the Amur District, or in the Bavarian 
Palatinate; everywhere each well performed local collection will yield about 8 to 12 Nolidae. A remarkable 
fact is that America lias not one species in common with the Old World. 
1. Genus: Xola Lack. 
On the whole very much like Celama, chiefly differing from it by the 4-branched subcostal, only the 
middle branch being absent, and by the upper radial vein rising at the upper cell-angle. The palpi are usually 
somewhat longer and project like snouts. In the American species the antennae of the are long-combed 
(Selca Wlcr.) 
N. maia Schs. (32 k). Body and wings brown, mixed with grey; on the forewing there are two blackish 
transverse lines, the anterior one being distally bordered with yellow-reddish, the posterior one clistally bordered 
with white; between both there are 2 dots at the cell-end; before the margin with a darker undulate line; 
hindwings whitish, dusted brown. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Costa Rica. 
N. niveibasis Jones (32 k) has a white body, the abdomen being dusted brownish, the forewings 
are white in the basal halves, distally red-brown; a black median line borders on the two colours and projects 
on the median towards the margin. At the base of the costal margin there is a blackish-browri spot, beyond 
the middle there is a dentate, black line distally bordered with white in a costal direction, and besides there 
is an indistinct, dark, antemarginal line. Hindwings whitish, dusted with red-brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. 
South Brazil. 
N. mesocyma Dogn. (32 a) is a minute animal with white forewings with a red-brown tinge towards 
the distal and costal margins, with three fine, black median, postmedian and antemarginal transverse lines; 
at the upper cell-end there is a small accumulation of red-brown scales. Hindwings white, towards the margin 
brownish. Expanse of wings: 12 mm. French Guiana. 
N. pulverea Hmps. (321) is whitish on the body and wings, thickly dusted red-brown, with two transverse 
lines on the forewing, the posterior ope of which is broken in an acute angle below the costal margin and in 
the lower half proximally dusted dark. Hindwings whitish, towards the margin brownish with a black middle 
dot. Expanse of wings: 20 to 26 mm. Bolivia. 
N. sabulosa Schs. (32 a) is similar; the posterior transverse line is punctiform, more sharply dentate; 
in front of it at the costal margin a blackish spot and in the middle of the cell a small accumulation of black 
scales. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Costa Rica. 
N. mesographa Schs. (32 a) is distinguished by a blackish-blue scaled costal-marginal spot in the 
middle, from which a brown and black band runs to the proximal margin; at the base of the costal margin there 
is a brown and black triangular spot, beyond the middle a transverse line of dots; before the border being dusted 
red-brown, a darker undulate line. Hindwings white, towards the margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 18 to 
24 mm. Guiana to Brazil. 
N. triplaga Dogn. (32 a) is a tiny insect easily recognizable by the 3 dark costal-marginal spots; 
the middle spot is four-cornered with small heaps of black and silvery scales in the middle of the cell and 
at the upper end. Marginal area dusted red-brown. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. Panama. 
N. caelata spec. nov. (32 a) is a small, very easily recognizable species. Head, thorax and forewings 
snow-white; at the costal base an oblong, red-brown spot, the centre is crossed by a broad, red-brown median 
band being broadest at the costal margin and somewhat strangulated on the submedian fold; on its proximal 
border there are, in a straight line above each other, 3 small heaps of thickly applied, enamel scales, of a black 
colour, with a green-silvery lustre, at the cell-encl a fourth. Subterminal band of the usual shape, cloudy, red- 
brown; the border itself is likewise red-brown like the fringes. Hindwings light brownish-grey. Expanse of 
wings: 14 mm. -—■ 1 <$ from Orosi (Costa Rica) from the Coll. Fassl. 
N. perluta spec. nov. (32 a). A tiny animal with mostly white forewings; only the marginal area is 
narrowly brownish; in front of it the 3 cloudy curves of the grey undulate line. In the middle of the costal 
