TllOLERA. — ODONTELIA. 



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white, waved, and dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, defined on inner side 

 by a series of dentate black marks ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia with ochreous line at base. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with brown, more strongly 

 in female ; the underside with the costa irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. ferrwjinea. Much paler. — Tyrol, Carinthia. 



Ab. 2. Right hind wing with the colour and markings of fore 

 wing except on costal area. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; P'rance ; Germany, Zeller and Frey 

 Colls. ; SwiTZEEi-AND, Frcy Coll. ; N. and C. Italy ; Austria, Hungary, 

 Leech Coll., Dalmatia ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 38-40 milim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 81; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 139, pi. 152. _f. 2. 



Bronzy olive-brown ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines 

 whitish with dark edges ; lateral line hardly paler, with dark edges ; 

 head brownish. Food-plant : Grasses. 4-0. 



Genus ODONTELIA, nov. 



Type, 0. margiana. 



Proboscis absent in male, rather slender in female ; palpi oblique, fringed 

 with long hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, rounded ; anteunai of male bipectinate, with rather long 

 stiff branches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair and without 

 distinct crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base and lateral fringes of hair. 

 Fore wing rather long and narrow ; veins o and 5 from the angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



1437. Odontelia margiana. 



Thargdia margiana, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 182, pi. ii. f. 1-4 (1904). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey-white, slightly tinged with ochreous in places and 



Fig. 33. — Odontelia margiana, ,^. }. 



Ihickly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by very ill- 

 defined double stria; from costa and cell ; hardly a trace of the 

 antcmedial line; claviform elongate, defined bv black; orbicular 



