. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 128 STNTOMID^. 239. Pseudonaclia puella. Naclia puella, Bo\sd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596, no. 120 (1847); Wal- lengr. Svensk. Handl. v. (4) p. 13 (1864); Kirby, i. p. 106. J . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi orange-yellow; abdomen orange at sides. Fore wing ferruginous red-brown ; a quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, with a bar-shaped spot below it across submedian interspace: a rounded postmedial spot below the costa, and a quadrate spot from just above veins 4 and 5 to vein 3. Hind wing orange-yellow


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 128 STNTOMID^. 239. Pseudonaclia puella. Naclia puella, Bo\sd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596, no. 120 (1847); Wal- lengr. Svensk. Handl. v. (4) p. 13 (1864); Kirby, i. p. 106. J . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi orange-yellow; abdomen orange at sides. Fore wing ferruginous red-brown ; a quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, with a bar-shaped spot below it across submedian interspace: a rounded postmedial spot below the costa, and a quadrate spot from just above veins 4 and 5 to vein 3. Hind wing orange-yellow, with a large black discoidal spot; an p- ^f) irregular terminal black band, the Pseudonacliapueila, J. :^. orange running out to near the margin between veins 7 and 2, the black running inwards along vein 2 to the cell. 5 with the spot below the cell reduced ; hind wing without the discoidal spot. ffab. Bay (Mrs. Monteiro), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salis- bury (Marshall), 1^2$; Natal (J. V. Gooch), 1 ^. Exp., 6 22, 2 30 millim. Genus MICRONACLIA, nov. Type, M. simplex. Proboscis well developed ; palpi porreet, extending just beyond the frons ; anteni'iffi bipectinate, with branches of moderate length ; hind tibire with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from near upper angle : 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, 8 veiy short; 9 absent. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3 and 5 stalked; 4 and 7 absent, A. Fore wing black, with orange markings. a. Fore wing with orange patch in end of cell muscella. b. Fore wing with medial orange band fenera. B. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown simplex. *240. Micronaclia muscella. Syntomis muscella, Mab. C. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxviii. p. elxxxviii (1884); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 107. Naclia'flavia, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. , pi. 1. ff. 1,2 (1893). $. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; palpi, vertex of head, base and extremity of antennae, and vertex of thorax fuscous; abdomen with dorsal se


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