385 

 ArLODES Guenee. Plate 4, figs. 13, 13a. 



Jjilodcs Guen., Thai., i, 37(>, 1857. 



. and loili.s Walk, (in part), List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 540, 58G, 1861. 

 Hipparchischus Walsh, l'roe. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., is, 300, 18G4. 



Head nearly square in front. Palpi slightly ascending, rather slender, 

 reaching a little in front of the head; third joint short, conical. Antennae 

 of male with short, slender pectinations. Fore wings with the costa rather 

 full; apex subacute. Hind wings usually distinctly angled in the middle. 

 Venation : a subcostal cell closed or open ; the costal vein touches the middle 

 of the subcostal cell, the posterior discal venule and the first two median 

 venules either co-originating or the origin of the first median remote from 

 that of the second. Hind legs of the male: tibiae rather long, four equal 

 spurs, with a pointed projection extending beyond the spines; tarsi short, 

 very slender, but little more than half as long as the tibies. Abdomen long 

 and slender, greenish above and spotted with white, or with a long, white, 

 dorsal baud. Wings with two common, white, narrow lines, the outer line 

 on the hind wings usually distinctly bent. 



The green or whitish abdomen, with the conspicuous white or reddish 

 spots, and the angled hind wings, distinguish the species of this genus from 

 Racheospila, in which the species are smaller, with very long palpi, the 

 third joint being of great length, while the spots on the abdomen are white 

 surrounded with red. 



Larva. — " Ten-footed, its dorsum with curved lateral appendages cov- 

 ered with short, velvety hair, and similar to those of Limacodes? hyalinus 

 Walsh, except that they are much shorter and none of them abruptly longer 

 than the others.'' — (Walsh.) The pupa is greenish or brownish, enclosed in 

 a slight cocoon among leaves, fastened together with a lew silk threads. — 



(Sc udder.) 



Synopsis of the Species. 



A. Origin of first median venule remote from that of the second; 



hind wings scarcely bent; abdomen spotted with red: 



Green, with a brown line behind the antenna-; fringe reddish on the 



outer two-thirds 1. ruirifrontarifl. 



B. First and second median and posterior discal venules co- 



originating; hind wings angled: 



a. Species brown : 



Brown, with a marginal, darker, interrupted line 1. briiniiearhi. 



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