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narrowiug to a point at tornus with small brown spots before it in 

 submedian fold and above tornus ; cilia ochreous mixed with brown 

 and with a brown line through tbem. Underside of fore wing 

 orange slightly suffused with brown in parts, a discoidal point, 

 indistinct subtermiual line, and slight streaks on the veins of 

 terminal area ; hind wing with the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a faint subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with diffused medial and postmedial brown 

 bands. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing almost wholly suffused with brown. 



Hub. S. France, Sand Coll. ; Spain, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls., Cadiz (WalsingJiam), Gibraltar (Yerbury); Corsica, Pout 

 du Garde (Yerbury) ; Italy, Liguria ; Sicili, Leech Coll. ; 

 ? Dalmatia ; Malta (Bainbriyge-Fletcher), 1 <$ , 1 $ ; Algeria. 

 Exp. 34-36 millirn. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 290; Hffm. Raup. p. 144, pi. 36. 

 f. 19. 



Green with yellow dorsal and lateral lines. Food-plant, flowers 

 of Psoralen bituminosa. 6. 



*4824. Synthymia exsiccata. 

 Synthimia exsiccata, Warr. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 25, pi. iv. ff. 19, 30 (1905). 



J . Head and thorax white tinged with reddish ochreous ; 

 abdomen white faintly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white 

 tinged with reddish ochreous ; traces of a rufous antemedial line 

 with more prominent rufous point in submedian fold ; traces of 

 small whitish orbicular and reniform stigmata ; postmeditil line 

 whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4 

 and denned on inner side by a rufous shade below vein 2 ; a faint 

 whitish subterminal line slightly defined by rufous on inner side 

 and slightly incurved below vein 3 : a terminal series of slight 

 rufous points. Hind wing almost pure white, the underside with 

 the costal area faintly tinged with ochreous. 



Hab. Sudan, Merawi, type t <$ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 30 millirn. 



Genus MEGALODES. 



Typo. 

 Mcgalodes, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 261 (1852) eximia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and reaching about to 

 middle of Irons, the 2nd joint, moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 rather long; irons with large round corneous prominence with raised edges, 

 its lower edge produced to a large trilobate plate, a corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male laminate and serrate ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibia; fringed with rather 

 long hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wiDg with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsoh scent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near buse only. 



