ARCTIIDAE; NOLINAE; NOLA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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4. Family: Arctiidae, Tiger-Moths. 
This family does not abound in large and beautiful forms in the Ethiopian Region. In Vol. VI (p. 231) 
and X (p. 105), where it was dealt with at large, we have already stated its chief range to be in the northern 
temperate zone. In the tropics the larger forms are mostly dark or neutrally coloured nocturnal insects; 
the smaller ones, being often very charmingly coloured (such as the neotropical Automolis), lack again the large 
glaringly coloured areas on the wings as are exhibited in the north by the Callimorpha , Arctia, Pericallia etc. 
By the great conformity of the neuration, the composition of the genera, particularly in the genuine 
Arctiinae, was rendered so difficult that some systematizers who chiefly rely on the neuration of the wings 
were obliged to employ gigantic genera evidently containing quite heterogeneous elements. It is also very 
difficult to draw a sharp line between the Arctiidae and the following family, the Lymantriidae, since the veins 
hardly supply any aid here. On the other hand, groups being undoubtedly connected with the Arctiidae, such 
as the Callimorpha in Europe, the Platyprepia in America, have been eliminated from the Arctiid family, although 
they can by no means remain separated from them. The present composition of the genera is also frequently 
opposed to the experiences of zoogeography, as it is unlikely that genera (such as Maenas, Nstigmene , Seirarctia 
etc.) are common to Africa with South America, whereas in all the other parts of the globe they are absent. 
We essentially follow here the order of divisions having been chosen in the 2nd, 6th, and 10th volumes, 
according to which the following groups are distinguished: 
a) Nolinae e) Spilosorninae 
b) Lithosiinae f) Arctiinae 
c) Hypsinae (Aganauli) g) Callimorphinae 
d) Micrarctiinae h) N yctemerinae, 
so far as they are represented in the Ethiopian Fauna. — In the same way as in Vol. X the Pterothysanus, 
here in this volume an equivalent group, the Otraeda, are appended as a kind of transition to the Lymantriidae. 
I. Subfamily: MoSinae. 
The Nolinae, without exception comprise small and mostly also inconspicuously coloured lepidoptera which are 
often neglected and regarded as microlepidoptera by those collectors that wish to make a lucrative use of their collections. 
By reason of lepidopterologically schooled collectors, who also pay attention to minute lepidoptera, having only recently 
penetrated in greater numbers into the interior of Africa, most of the Nolinae have also been described only in the last 
decades. Ktbby, in 1890, hardly enumerated a dozen of species which, at that time, were not even correctly listed. At the 
end of the last century there were not yet more, and to-day the number of the Ethiopian Nolinae known exceeds 40, 
particularly many having been added by H.ampson in the last years. 
As to the remarkable habits of these insects, e. g. the formation of crowns in the sloughing time, the peculiar 
traces in feeding, the strange construction of the boat-shaped bassinet of the pupa, we have already informed the readers 
in Vol. II (p. 44), Vol. VI (p. 233), and Vol. X (p. 107), so that we merely refer to those places. Very little being known 
of the Ethiopian Nolinae, there is nothing from which we might infer a demeanour different from the African species. 
• On the whole our material from the Ethiopian Region is also therefore still very scanty, because the Nolinae 
are mostly no common insects. Many are even decidedly rare, being captured at the lantern only by chance, and of quite 
a number of the species enumerated here merely the type is known. The Island of Madagascar seems to be favoured to 
a certain degree by this subfamily. 
1. Genus: ISTolil Leach. 
From the Ethiopian Region 18 forms of this genus are known to-day, which neither in then’ size nor 
colouring differ very much from the Indo-Australian or palearctic species. Most of them have an expanse of 
