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I quite agree with Staudinger in regarding paludata as a variety of 

 imbi/fafa. 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 

 Cranberry ( V. oxycoccns) ; Freyer describes it as '' reddish yellow, with three 

 wide stripes down tlie back; spiracular line yellowish white". (Stainton's 

 Manual, ii, 120.) 



ODEZIA Boisduval. Plate 1. fig. 16. 



Baplriu lliibii. (iu part), Verz., 306, 1818. 

 Psodos Tivits., Scluii. vi (i), ^54, 1827. 

 Tanagra * Diip., Lep. France, vii (iv), 112, 1829. 

 ilirwa Ste[)b., Noraeucl. 15r. lus. 45, 1829. 

 Tanagra Dup., Lop. France, viii (v), .')-23, 1830. 

 Miiwa Stepb., 111., iii, 293, 1831. 

 Odezia Boisd., Gen. Ind., 229, 1840. 



Steph., Cat. Br. Lep., 218, 1850. 



Lederer, Verli. But. Zool. Ges. Wicu, 240, 18.53. 

 Tanagra and Odezia Guen., Phal., ii, 517,518, 18.57. 

 (hlezla Stand,, Cat., 76, 1861. 



Tanagra and Odezia Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1460, 1461, 1862. 

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



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

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

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

 tlie 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'tlie much-rounded apex, not extending to the 

 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 tibite. Abdomen long and rather 

 thick ; tip hardly tufted. The species are uniformly deep black, witli white 

 bands; the lilnd wings entirely black or partly so. 



In this genus, the wings are short, broad, and much rounded at the apex; 

 these characters, witli Ihe Idack hues, separate it from all tiic others of the 

 subfamily. 



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