EMBOLA. 3 
EMBOLA, gen. n. 
(éuod = an insertion.) 
Type: Embola xanthocephala Wlsm. 



J. H. Durrant, del. 
2. Embola xanthocephala Wism. 6. 
Antennae simple, nearly as long as forewings; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi short, slender, 
dependent, smooth, pointed, Mamillary Palpi minute. Haustellum long, naked. yes ciliate posteriorly. 
Ocella very conspicuous. Head prominent, globose, smooth. Thoraw smooth.  Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate, pointed, termen subsinuate ; smooth: neuration, 10 veins, 7 and 8 coincident, 2 obsolete ; all 
separate, (7+8) to costa; 1 almost simple, 1 being subobsolete. Hindwings (—1), lanceolate, pointed : 
neuration 6 veins, cubitus simple (2+3+4); 5, 6, 7, separate, 5 supported by approximating branches 
of media ; discoidal obsolete between 5 and cubitus. Abdomen somewhat slender. Legs, posterior tibiae 
with series of evenly projecting bristly hairs above throughout ; spurs long, naked. 
By neuration most nearly allied to Scelorthus Busck, but easily separable from this 
genus, as also from Aetole Chmb. (= * Heliodines Wlsm.—nec Stn.) by the structure 
of the hind legs, in which it agrees with Lamprolophus Busck, but differs in having 
only ten veins in the forewings, and in the hindwings 6 and 7 are not stalked. 
In addition to the species now described, Heliodines marginata Wlsm. [ Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891 535, 547 sp. 123 (1892): 1897 109 sp. 132 (1897)], St. Vincent, W-L., is 
recognised as belonging to the genus Lméola. 
1. Embola xanthocephala, sp. n. 
Antennae bronzy fuscous, apex white. Palpi short, slender, dependent; ochreous. Head orange-yellow. 
Thorax dark fuscous, with a bronzy sheen, especially on the tegulae. Forewinys rich golden-orange, with 
shining, bronzy, lilac metallic spots, four along the costa, three along the dorsum, each followed by an 
inverted, similarly metallic, length-streak from before the apex ; the first three costal spots, of which the 
second projects rather further over the surface of the cell than the other two, are set in a dark purplish 
fuscous shade-band, reaching to beyond the middle, and rather widened outward from its narrow origin 
at the base of the costa; the fourth costal spot, which is preceded and followed by golden orange, is very 
narrowly margined by purplish fuscous, as is also the short, inverted, metallic streak beyond it, the same 
dark colour spreading around the apex and enclosing the rather longer inverted streak pointing inward 
from the termen above the tornus, where it separates it from the erect antetornal metallic spot on the 
dorsum, which points to the space between the third and fourth costal; a narrow purplish fuscous streak 
from the base also connects the first and second dorsal spots to each other, but not to the third, the 
second of these being low and flattened ; cilia smoky fuscous. Hwp. al. 95 mm. Hindwings dark 
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