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GENUS ODEZIA. 



Odezia, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 229 (1840) ; Guene, 

 Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 518 (1857). 



ODEZIA TIBIALIS. 

 (Plate CLL, Fig. 4.) 



Noctua tibiale, Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i. p. 568, Taf. 164, fig. 2 



(1790). 

 Geometra tibialata, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. v. figs. 210, 211 



(1800?). 



Psodos tibialata, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. (2), p. 301 (1828). 

 Baptria athiopata. Von Heinemann, Schmett. Deutsch. i. p. 823 



(1859) nee Scopoli. 

 Odezia tibiale, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 357 (1882). 



This Moth is found in the southern parts of Central Europe, 

 and in some districts in North Germany. It expands from an 

 inch to an inch and a quarter, 



It is brownish-black, with a cream-coloured band com- 

 mencing on the middle of the costa of the fore-wings, and 

 running obliquely till it ends in a point near the hinder angle. 

 The hind-wings have an indistinct pale brown median line. 

 The fringes are partly white. 



FAMILY HEDYLID^E. 



Antennae short, finely pectinated in the male, head promi- 

 nent ; palpi straight, slender ^ proboscis well developed ; body 

 slender, thorax short ; abdomen very long \ legs short and 

 slender ; wings entire, without transverse lines, and hind-wings 

 without markings. 



A small South American family. Their large, rounded wings 

 and slender bodies give them some resemblance to butterflies. 



