THOLERA. — ODONTELIA. 



2in 



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. ferruginea. Much paler. — Tyrol, Cariuthia. 



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

 wing except on costal area. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Frey 

 Colls. ; SwixzEELAND, Frcv Coll. ; N. and C. Italy ; Austria, Hungary, 

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

 "W. Siberia, Altai. Exj^. 38-40 milim. 



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



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

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

 head brownish. Food-plant : Grasses. 4-6. 



Genus ODONTELIA, nov. 



Type, 0. margimia. 



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

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

 below it; eyes large, rounded; antennas of male bipectiuate, with rather long 

 stiffbranches 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 3 and 5 from the angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; V) from JU 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, 



Tliargelia vmrgiana, Piing. Iris, siv. p. 182, pi. ii. f. 14 (1904). 



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

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



Fig. 33. — Odontelia inargiana, ^. \. 



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

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

 antcmedial line ; claviform elongate, defined by black ; orbicular 



