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I quite agree with Staudinger in regarding paludata as ;t variety of 

 imbutata. Specimens received from Professor Zeller, labeled sororiata, show 

 no differences, even varietal, from ours. 



Larva. — Newman (Brit. Moths) says that Carsia imbutata feeds on the 

 ( Iranberry ( V. uxi/coccus); Freyer describes it as " reddish yellow, with three 

 wide stripes down the back; spiracular line yellowish white". (Staintoifs 

 Manual, ii, 120.) 



ODEZIA Boisduval. Plate 1. fig. 16. 



Baptria Hubn. (in part), Vera., 306, 1818. 

 Psodoa Tr< its., Schm. vi (i), 254, 1827. 

 Tanagra " Dap., Lep. France, vii (iv), 112, 1829. 

 Mum, i Steph., Nomencl. Br. Ius. 45, 1829. 

 Tanagra Hup., Lop. France, viii (v), 523, 1830. 

 Minoa Steph., 111., iii, 293, 1831. 

 Odezia Boisd.,Gen. Intl., 229, 1840. 



Steph., Cat. Hi-. Lq>.,2l-. 1850. 



Lederer, Verh. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 240, 1853. 

 Tanagra and Odezia Guen., Phal.. ii, 517, 518, 1857. 

 Odezia Stand., Cat., 76, 1861. 



Tanagra and Odezia Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. JIus., xxv, 1460, 1461, 1662. 

 Baptria Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., ii, 67, 1863. 



Head broad and full between the eyes; no interpalpal tuft. Palpi short 

 and slender, but much broader than in Lobophora, scarcely extending beyond 

 the front; third joint sharp, minute, scarcely distinguishable from the end of 

 the second joint. Male antennae rather thick, finely ciliated. Fore wings 

 broad, short, triangular, the costa regularly arched, apex much rounded; outer 

 edge short, moderately full, less oblique than usual. Hind wings rather long, 

 somewhat produced toward the much-rounded apex, not extending to tin; 

 end of the abdomen. Venation: a single large subcostal cell; the first sub- 

 costal venule nearly twice as long as the second, all the three first venules 

 much longer than in Carsia. Posterior discal venule oblique, curved a little 

 very near the independent vein. The first and second median venules 

 co-originating. The median and independent veins very long. Hind legs of 

 male with the tarsi much shorter than the tibise. Abdomen long and rather 

 thick : tip hardly tufted. The species are uniformly deep black, with white 

 bands; the hind wings entirely black or partly so. 



In this melius, I he wings are short, broad, and much rounded at the apex; 

 these characters, with the black hues, separate it from all the others of the 

 subfamily- 



'Preoccupied in Ornithology. 



