HJ£\IAS*1A. GALUULA. 4'<V.) 



Fore wing ochreous whitish tinged with blood-red, the medial area 

 slightly darker; antemedial line blood-red defined by whitish on 

 inner side, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then sinuous and 

 somewhat oblique; reniform a narrow silvery-white lnnule defined 

 by deep red and constricted at middle ; postmedial line deep red 

 with a white spot on its outer edge at costa, and defined on outer 

 side by white from lower angle of cell to inner margin, oblique 



Fig. 121. — Hcemassia retialis, rf. 5. 



from costa to vein 6 just beyond the reniform, slightly incurved at 

 di-cal fold, incurved and sinuous below vein 4, some white points 

 bevond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, reddish, nearly 

 straight ; cilia deep red with a fine dark line at middle. Hind 

 wing ochreous whitish tinged with blood-red ; a fine deep red 

 terminal line. 



Bab. S. France, Zeller, Frey, Leech, and Sand Colls.; Asta 

 Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Amanus Mts., 1 $; Syria, Mardin : 

 W. Turkestan, Turcomani.i. Exp. 2b' millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 289 ; Hffrn. Raup. p. 144, pi. 36. f. 17. 



Yellowish green spotted with red ; all the prolegs fully developed. 

 Food-plants: flowers of Lactuca satiua and Chondrillajuncea. 5. 



(ienus GALGULA. 



1 ypp. 

 Galyula, Guen. >»oct. ii. p. 239 (1852) partita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; 

 irons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; build slender; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the terinen obliquely curved 

 and not 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 wing 

 with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 t>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with dark patch on costal area beyond postmedial 



line subapicalis, 



B. Fore wing without dark patch on costal area beyond post- 



medial line. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line whitish defined by brown 



on inner side ...... partifa. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line brown without whitish 



on outer side cas'ra. 



