103 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 109 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 166. 



Green; dorsal and spiracular lines yellow, black-edged; sub- 

 dorsal line freckled with black ; head green. Food-plant, Artemisia, 

 July. 



Genus TIMOHA. 



Type. 



Ziwiora, Wlk. ix. 132 (18.56) senegalensis. 



Sophaga, Moore, P. Z S. 1881, p. 362 sinuata. 



BoriJca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 363 sangidnolenta. 



Masalia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 364 radiata. 



Pradatta, Moore, P. Z. S. 188 1 , p. 364 . .'. beatrix. 



Curubasa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881 , p. 366 lanceolata. 



Bhodosea, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p- 4 ( 1 883) Julia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed 

 with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below 

 it; eyes large, rounded ; antennje of male ciliated ; head and thoi'ax clothed 

 with hair and scales ; fore tibiiB short and broad, with long curved claw on 

 inner side and short claw ou outer ; mid and hind tibiaj spined ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex somewliat produced ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, which is long and narrow; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. (Bhodosea). Fore wing of male with glandular swelling on eosta 

 beyond middle and slight elongate depressions below costa and in cell. 



168. Timor a Julia. 



Bhodosea Julia, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 5 (1833) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 272. 

 Adisura grandis, Druce, P.Z. S. 1890, p. 516; id. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Het. 



ii. p. 490, pi. 94. f. 21. 



S . Head bright pink ; palpi white below ; thorax pink mixed 

 with white ; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing bright pink ; 

 some yellowish white at base of inner area ; a white fascia through 



Fig. 34. — Timorajidia, S . \. 



the cell to near termen and slight streaks above veins 4 and 6 ; 

 costal edge and cilia white. Hind wing pure white. Underside 

 of fore wing white, the costal area tinged Avith pink, the disk 

 suffused with fuscous above and below the white fascia. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 S , New Mexico, Arizona ; Mexico, 

 Jalisco, Lake Chapala {Richardson), 1 S , type (jrancHs, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exj). 34 millim. 



