374 



NOCXriD.'E. 



4825. Megalodes exiniia. 



Cosmia cximia, Frr. Neue Eeitr. v. p. 104, pi. 442. f. 3 (1884) ; Herr.- 

 Scbaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 31)9 (1849); Gue.i. Noet. ii. p. 261, 

 pi. 10. f. 16 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240. 



Head and thorax olire-green mixed with whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous dorsally suffused with pale olive-green. Fore wing olive- 

 green suffused over whitish; the veins slightly streaked with 

 whitish ; a narrow obliquely curved greeuish-white antemedial 

 band ; reniform slightly defined by whitish, expanding above and 

 narrowing below ; a narrow greenish-whito postraedial band, 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, then inwardly oblique and slightly 



JFig. 171. — Megalodes cximia, c?. \. 



incurved ; a narrow greenish- white subterminal band, slightly 

 excnrved below costa, then oblique ; a fine whitish terminal line ; 

 cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 pale red-brown ; cilia whitish slightly tinged with brown. Under- 

 side of fore wing brown, the costal and apical part of terminal 

 area whitish irrorated with olive-green; hind wing white slightly 

 irrorated with olive-green, traces of a diffused curved postnicdial 



line. 



Hah. Akmenia ; Asia AIinok, Pontus, 1 J , 1 $ , Lydia {Lederer), 

 3 J, 3 5, Taurus, Amanus Mts., 1 § ; Syki.\, 1 d , 1 $ , 

 Mardin ; Fviedistax. Exp. 34-4U millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 290; Hffni. Eaup. p. 144. 



Thick ; yellowish green with small whitish warts and dark red- 

 brown points : head yellow-])rown ; thoracic shield dark brown. 

 Food-plant, Malvus. 7. 



Genus NARTHECOPHOEA. 



Tvpp. 



Narthecophora, Smith. Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 485 (1900)... pu'lverca. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, very ^liort, the 2nd 

 joint fringed with hair in front ; frons ■with large trifid corneous process, the 

 middle point long with ridge above, a curved cornef)us plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male laminate; tlujrax clothed with hair and scales 

 vaixed and without crests ; fore tibiie short with curved claw on outer side, tlie 

 mid and bind tibia' sHghtly fringed with hair : abdomen without crests. Fore 



