. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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
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