282 NYMPHALID.E. 



Genus LVII GODARTIA. 



GoDARTiA Lucas. 



Anthora Boisd. 



EuxANTHE Hiibn. Ve?'z. hek. Schm. 



Body robust ; head, collar, and breast maculated ; wings very large. 

 Head moderately large, with a slight frontal tuft. 



Eyes prominent and naked. 



Labial Palpi small, rather slender, directed upwards, and porrected to about half the length of the head, covered 

 with short thick scales. The basal joint short ; second joint slightly curved, with a tuft of hairs on the upper 

 side near the tip, extending inwards, so as to cause the apical joints of the palpi to be wide apart ; terminal 

 joint very short, and obtuse at the tip. Maxillte long, extending to the base of the hind legs. 



Antennoi rather short, about two fifths of the length of the fore wings of the male, but scarcely equal to one third 

 of those of the female, nearly straight ; with the club gradually formed, rather slender, occuj^ying about one 

 fourth of the whole length of the antennse, slightly keeled on the under side. 

 Thorax rather robust, with the neck nearly equal to the head in width, and half its length. Metathorax Avider and 

 oblong, with the scutellum very convex, and the metathorax with oblique tufts of hair at the sides. Wings 

 very large and broad. 



Fore Wings in the males with the inner margin so much elongated, that the extremity of the wing appears 

 transversely truncate. Fore margin very much arched and slightly serrated, about one fourth longer than the 

 entire body. Outer margin about two thirds of the length of the anterior margin, slightly externally curved. 

 Inner margin about five sixths of the length of the fore margin, very slightly emarginate in both sexes. Costal 

 vein very strong at the base, extending to nearly five sixths of the length of the fore margin, emitting a very 

 rudimental short spur-like branch to the costa, at a little distance before or beyond the junction of the 

 extremity of the second branch of the subcostal with the costa (this spur may be considered as the extremity 

 of the costal branch, and the apparent extremity of the costal vein as the extremity of the first and second 

 subcostal branches coalescing together). Subcostal vein slender, much arched at the base, wdth the first branch 

 arising about one fourth of the length from the base ; it is about one fifth of the length of the fore margin, 

 and, instead of extending to the costa, is united to the costal vein, as is also the second branch of the subcostal, 

 which arises close to the former, and extends but a little beyond it : the subcostal vein, at a little distance 

 beyond it, is slightly angulated. The third branch arises at about two fifths of the length of the wing, and 

 extends to the costa just beyond the extremity of the costal vein, whence it runs cjuite close to the costa, nearly 

 to the tip of the wing. The fourth branch is remarkably elongated, being more than half the length of the wing ; 

 it is bent downwards near its middle, so that it reaches the apical margin at a little distance below the apex ; 

 the terminal portion of the wing rather arched, and reaching the apical margin still lower. Upper disco-cellular 

 vein short, equal in length to the space between the second branch of the snbcostal and the base of the upper 

 disco-cellular, oblique; middle disco-cellular also oblique, rather longer and slightly curved; lower disco-cellular 

 about twice the length of the middle one, scarcely curved, very oblique, imiting with the third branch of the 

 median vein at a little distance from its base, closing the discoidal cell in an acute point just before tlie middle 

 of the wing ; beyond which the third branch of the median vein is curved ; inner vein nearly straight. 



Hind Wings very wide, subtriangular. Costal margin slightly curved. Outer margin entire. Precostal vein 

 strong, short, scarcely curved. Costal vein slightly curved. Subcostal vein branching at about one fourth 

 of the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular slightly curved, forming the base of the discoidal vein, and 

 arising at a very little distance from the branch of the subcostal ; lower disco-cellular obsolete ; the cell long, 

 narrow, and open. Median vein with its first branch arising beyond tlie base of the discoidal ; the third branch 

 arising very near the middle of the wing. 



Foi-e Legs of the male very short, but thick, and densely clothed with scales, and the tarsi with scaly hairs ; the 

 latter are as long and thick as the tibia, and, when denuded of scales, the apex, previously clothed with white 

 scales, exhibits a distinct articulation, but is destitute of apical claws. Foi'e Legs of the female longer than 

 those of the male, robust; the tarsal portion two thirds of the length of the tibia, and obliquely truncate at the 

 tip, which is armed with several pairs of short spines, indicating the joints discovered on denuding the limb. 



Four Hind Legs moderately long, robust, and thickly scaly. Tibia two tliirds as long as the femur, spiny 

 beneath ; tibial spurs short. Tarsi nearly as long as the tibia, spiny beneath. Claws very much curved. 

 Paronychia bifid ; the outer lacinia longest and pointed. Pulvillus broad, short, and leathery. 

 Abdomen moderately robust, dilated, and hairy at the base. 



This is a very well-maiked genus, and is distinguished l)y its structural characters, such as the remarkable arrangement of the veins 

 of the anterior portion uf the fore wings ; the first and second branches of the subcostal vein running into the costal one, which, after 



