XYMPHALIX.^v 



Genus GODARTIA. 



299 



Godartia, Lucas, "Ann. Soc. Eiit. France, 1842, p. 299;" AVestw., Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 282 (1850). 



Imago. — Head of moderate size, shortly tufted in front ; eyes 

 smooth ; 2^^^^^ rather small, erect, divergent, roughly scaly ; basal 

 joint hairy beneath ; middle joint tufted above as in Diadema, rather 

 long and thick, terminal joint short and blunt ; antennce short and 

 thick (especially in $), with the club elongated and but slightly hol- 

 lowed inferiorly. 



Thorax moderately thick, very convex superiorly, downy beneath 

 and in front above, hairy posteriorly above ; prothorax forming a well- 

 marked neck. Fore-wings : broad, remarkably truncate in ^ — inner- 

 margin being of unusual length ; costa very strongly arched in ^, 

 moderately in $, finely serrated ; apex squared in ^, rounded in $ ; 

 hind-margin rather convex about middle in ^, concave in ^ ; inner 

 margin fringed with hair near base, slightly concave about middle ; 

 costal nervure very thick and rigid, especially near base ; first sub- 

 costal nervule short, slender, rising far before end of discoidal cell and 

 united to costal nervure at about the same distance beyond cell ; second 

 and third also slender, but very long (the latter ending at apex), and 

 arising respectively considerably before and a little beyond extremity 

 of cell, — fourth and fifth thicker, branching off not very far beyond 

 third ; discoidal cell very short ; disco-cellular nervules all very oblique, 

 — upper one rather long, middle one very short (radial nervules thus 

 originating close together), lower one very long, more slender than the 

 others, slightly curved, joining third median nervule at same distance 

 from its origin. Hind-wings : very broad — especially in (^, where they 

 are markedly prominent apically ; costa very slightly arched after basal 

 prominence ; hind-margin slightly sinuated ; inner-margins forming a 

 wide rather shallow groove ; nervures thick and rigid near base, espe- 

 cially the precostal ; costal nervure terminating at apex ; upper disco- 

 cellular nervule forming curved base of long radial nervule, lower one 

 wanting (leaving discoidal cell quite open) ; submedian and internal 

 nervures much curved, — the latter short and unusually thick and rigid. 

 Fore-legs of ^ very small, but rather thick, densely scaly; tarsi with some 

 short thick hairs at extremity ; of the ^ much longer, rather smoother, 

 — tibia about as long as the femur, tarsus rather long, thickened at 

 extremity, spinulose beneath. Middle and hind legs short, thick, 

 scaly ; tibise and tarsi bristly above, spinose beneath ; tibial spurs very 

 short. 



Abdomen rather thick (in ^ rather long), dorsally hairy at base and 

 along median line. 



This remarkable genus, though exhibiting relationship with Diadema 



