PYRALID^. 347 



close to end of cell, lower at one-third ; a straight submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body moderately slender ; anal tuft conspicuous ; labial palpi oblique, first joint 

 broad, rounded in front, second joint short, triangidarly dilated with scales at tip ; 

 third joint linear, decumbent ; maxillary palpi very distinct, linear ; antennge rather 

 stout, simple ; legs long, tibiae squamous, spurs moderate, unequal. 

 Type, P. margaritalis. 



PIONEA. BREVIALIS. 



Pionea hrevialis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 759 (1859). 



Yellowish-ochreous : forewing crossed by an outwardly-oblique slender ochreous- 

 brown sinuous antemedial line, and an outwardly-curved postmedial line ; the 

 medial area clouded with ochreous-brown scales ; a slender brown reuiform 

 mark : hindwing paler, brightest externally. Cilia whitish, with brown inner line. 

 Body, head, palpi above, and bands on forelegs yellowish-ochreous ; palpi beneath 

 and legs white. 



Expanse to inch. 



Genus GODARA. 



Godara, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 808 (1859) ; LeJerer, Pyial. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. 

 p. 383 (1863). 



Male. Wings short : forewing broad, costa very convex at the base, exterior 

 margin very slightly oblique, posterior margin slightly lobate and fringed in the 

 middle ; cell about two-thirds the length ; first subcostal at one-third before end of 

 the cell, third bifid, close to its end, fifth from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, concave, I'adials from close to its ends ; middle median close to end of cell, 

 lower at nearly one-half ; submedian curved at the base, with a slender curved lower 

 bi'anch. On the upper side is a reflexed tuft of hairs near the base of the costa, and 

 on the under side is a row of rigid hairs extending from near the base below the 

 median vein to its lower branch, these hairs being projected forward: hindwing 

 broad, apex and exterior margin very convex ; cell more than one-third the length, 

 broad ; costal and subcostals much recurved ; two subcostals from end of cell, upper 

 slightly joined to costal ; discocellular very slender, oblique, concave, radial and 

 upper median from extended lower end; middle median from close to end, lower at 

 nearly one-half before the end, dilated at its base and recurved ; submedian also 

 recurved and touching the dilated portion of the median ; two curved internal veins. 

 Body slender, abdomen keeled above ; labial palpi obliquely ascending, first joint 

 broad and rounded in front, compressed, laxly squamous, second joint triangular, 

 third short, almost linear; maxillary palpi erect, linear, extending to end of 

 second joint of labial; antenna3 short, thick, filiform; legs rather stout and 



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