. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. NOLOSIA.—^THOSIA. 385 Genus NOLOSIA, nov. Type, JV. marmorata. Proboscis absent; jJ'ilpi minute; froas clothed with rough scales; antennre of male bipectinate, with long branches; femora and tibia; clothed with long hair, the sjoiirs moderate. Fore wing narrow ; vein 2 from just beyond middle of cell ; '6 from before angle ; 4, 6 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 mar
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. NOLOSIA.—^THOSIA. 385 Genus NOLOSIA, nov. Type, JV. marmorata. Proboscis absent; jJ'ilpi minute; froas clothed with rough scales; antennre of male bipectinate, with long branches; femora and tibia; clothed with long hair, the sjoiirs moderate. Fore wing narrow ; vein 2 from just beyond middle of cell ; '6 from before angle ; 4, 6 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. (5. Head, thorax, aud abdomen grey largely mixed with black- brown hair. Fore wing silvery white irrorated with black- 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 ^\^?>.—2^oloda marmorata, S- \- to inner margin ; an obscure dentate subterminal line, and fine terminal line. Hind wing with a slight yelloAvish tinge; traces of dififused medial and subterminal brown lines. llah. Madagascak, Betsileo (Cowan), 2 J, type. filiy. 18 millim. Genus JETHOSIA, nov. Type, ^E. ectrocta. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, reaching as far as frons, which is rounded ; antennaa of male with bristles and cilia; tibiaj with the spurs moderate. Fore wing narrow ; the costa arched, the inuer margin excised at tornus; vein 1 sinuous; 2 from middle of cell; 3 from well before angle ; 6 from well above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 7 trom beyond 9; 10, 11 free, 11 curved and apjjroximated to 12; male with an elliptical patch of androeonia on underside above and below median nervure from before middle to end of cell. Hind wing with the costa strongly arched, tlie 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 of cel
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