fovifera. 
ochrogral¬ 
pha. 
pcrfusca. 
mesoscota. 
cndo costa. 
mcsotherma. 
chionea. 
angola. 
argyrolepis. 
poliotis. 
diplozona. 
praefica. 
crctacea. 
leucalea. 
cliia. 
major. 
transecta. 
bicincta. 
02 NOLA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
about 2 cm and brownish or yellow-tinted, more rarely white wings. As to the diagnose of the genus cf. Vol. II, 
p. 44. 
N. fovifera Hmps. (8 a). The $ has a scent-pad in the cell-end on the forewing beneath. The forewing 
exhibits on the dirty greyish-white ground 3 nebulous transverse lines (before, in and behind the centre) 
composed of somewhat irregular, distally white-edged small spots. Hindwing whitish, with a dull brown tint. 
Apparently widely distributed; it was found at the Gold Coast and in Rhodesia. 
N. ochrographa Hmps. (8 a) is slightly larger, but the forewing of a decidedly brown ground-colour. 
The proximal transverse line is very strongly indented, posteriorly convex; the middle one reduced to a cell- 
end spot of the costa, the distal one straight, whitish, proximally shaded with dark; another transverse line, 
not quite parallel to the 3rd, is before the marginal area. Hindwing margined with brown, towards the apex 
broader. Uganda. 
N. perfuses limps. (8 a) is considerably smaller than the preceding, darker and more monotonously 
brown, of the marking only a median oblique shadow is to be noticed. Hindwing towards the base a little 
lighter brown. West Africa. 
N. mesoscota Hmps. (8 a). Forewing brown, the 3 transverse lines distinct and rather straight; besides 
a dot in the posterior part of the cell. Hindwing lighter brown. Transvaal. 
N. endocosta Hmps. (8 a) is smaller than mesoscota which it otherwise resembles, but only the 2 outer 
transverse stripes are distinct, very oblique; besides there is a small ring-spot in the cell. In this species the 
hindwing is darker brown than the more yellowish-brown forewing. From the Gold Coast. 
N. mesotherma Hmps. (8 a). The 3 transverse stripes of the forewing are distinct, their course similar 
to that in fovifera , but the basal area and the proximal half of the marginal third white, so that the central 
area represents a brown broad band. Hindwing dark brown. Gold Coast. 
N. chionea Hmps. (8 a). Forewing white with a very feeble brown median band and a broad dark 
margin. Hindwing white with a brownish fringe. West Africa. 
N„ angola B.-Bak. (8 b). Forewing brown, the basal quarter and a large oval costal spot before the 
apex white; in the cell a dark dot. Hindwing white with a yellowish-brown marginal band. Angola. 
N. argyrolepis Hmps. (8 b) is almost like fovifera , just a little larger; discernible by the more regular 
postmedian stripe and the less oblique median stripe. Mashona Land. 
N. poliotis Hmps. (8 b) is larger than argyrolepis, but otherwise similarly coloured and marked; the 
median stripe of the forewing is hardly traceable. Transvaal. 
N. diplozona Hmps. (8 b), from Nairobi in East Africa, is scarcely half the size of poliotis, but the 
3 transverse stripes of the forewing are oblique, quite straight, the two distal ones bordered with light. 
N. praefica Saalm. (8 b) is a relatively large, yellowish-brown species. The distal transverse line of the 
forewing extends in two indentations, the middle one being curved; the proximal one being absent, instead 
of it there is a small cellular spot and a brown longitudinal spot at the costal margin. South Africa and 
Madagascar. 
N. cretacea Hmps. (8 b) is the smallest and most insignificant species, almost like a fovifera, but 
still smaller, of a lighter greyish brown ground-colour, with partly obliterated transverse lines. Nigeria. 
N. leucalea Hmps. (8 b) is much larger, of a similar dark ground-colour, but in the forewing there 
are 5 instead of 3 transverse lines, and sometimes yet a sixth incomplete line starting from the centre of the 
costal margin. South and East Africa. 
N. clhia Hoil. (8 c) is still larger, with a quite different marking. The forewing being almost quite 
chalk-coloured white has a dark base of the costa, a brown triangle in the centre of the costal margin, and 
a brown marginal area crossed by a light undulate line. Hindwing brown. From the Congo. 
N. major Hmps. (8 c). This species has been described in Vol. X, pi. 13 e as distributa Wkr. and 
dealt with on p. 108, on the supposition that there are no specific differences between the Asiatic and African 
specimens. If this is correct, the species has an enormous range extending from West Africa, across Madagas¬ 
car and South India with Ceylon to the remote Christmas Island. The scheme of markings is very much 
like that of cilia. 
N 0 transecta Hmps. (8c) is much smaller; the forewing is likewise chiefly white, but the costa, apex 
and distal margin, as well as the distal part of the hindwing are strewn with brown. Sierra Leone. 
N. bicincta Hmps. (8 c). The rather small species has only 2 brown transverse stripes through the 
forewing, before and behind the centre, but both are very broad, Besides there is yet a dark spot in the 
cell. Hindwing with a dark distal half. From the Cape. 
