STNTIITMIA. — JIKfJAl.ODES. 373 



narrowing to a point u( ioruus with small brown spots before it in 

 subinedian fold and above torniis : cilia ocbreous mixed with brown 

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

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

 indistinct subtermiiial line, and slight streaks on the veins of 

 terminal area ; hind wing with tlie costal and terminal areas 

 slijihtly irrorated with brown, a faint subterminal line. 



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

 bands. 



Ab, 2. Hind Aviiig almost wholly suffused with brown. 



Hah. 8. France, Sand Coll. ; Spain, Zeller, Prey, and Leech 

 Colls., Cadiz ( Walshujhani), Gibraltar (Yerhunj) ; Corsica, Pont 

 du Garde [Yerhury) ; Italv, Liguria ; Sicily, Leech Coll. ; 

 ?I)almatia; Malta {Bainbrvjije-FletcJier), 1 J, 1 5 ; Algeria. 

 E.vp. 34-36 millira. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 290; nffm. Raup. p. 141, pi. ,",(). 

 f. 19. 



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

 of Pi-oralca hituminosa. 6. 



*4824. Synthymia exsiccata. 



Syntkimia c.rsiccahi, Warr. 2\o\. Zool. xii. p. 2.3, pi. iv. ff. 19, 30 (1905). 



rT . Head and thorax white tinged with reddish ocbreous ; 

 abdomen white faintly tinged with ocbreous. Fore wing white 

 tinged wdth reddish ocbreous ; traces of a rufous antemedial line 

 with rr-.ore prominent rufous point in submedian fold ; traces of 

 small whitish orbicular and reniform stigmata ; postmedial line 

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

 and defined 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 ocbreous. 



Hah. ScDAN, Merawi, type t d i^^ Coll. Eothsehild. Eaj^. 

 30 millim. 



Genus MEGALODES. 



Type. 

 Mef/alode.'', Guen.l^oct. li. p. 2QI (1852) e.vimia. 



Probosc-is fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and reaching about to 

 middle ot frons, the 2nd joint moderately Iringed with hair in IVont, the 3rd 

 rather long; fruns 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 ; antennse of male laminate and serrate ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibi;c fringed witii ra(her 

 long liair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the upps. somewhat 

 produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and harrllj ci'enulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (j 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 obsoh scent from just below middle of discocellulars ; fj, 7 from 

 upper angle; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



