RIODIXID.E. / f,?, 



Sub family NEMEOBIIN^. 



EryciidiuT., Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 176 (1864:). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 6S (1881). 

 Nemeohiinm, Bates, Journ. Linn. Soc. Znol. ix. pp. 370, 412 (18G7-8). Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. 



p. 284 (1871) ; id. Allen's Nat. Hist. L^p. ti. p. 9 (1896). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 186 (188:5). 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 305 (188C). Dohertj, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 



p. 131. Staudinger and Sclijitz, B.\ot. Schmatt. ii. p. 2;J0 (I81»j). Tutt, Biic. Butt. pp. 16, "JIO 



(1896). 

 Nemeubiiihv, Grote, Trans. Ent. Soc. LonJ. 1897, pp. 310-1. 



Cir.\R.VCTER8 OF THE Ne.MEODIIM.E. 



Tmago. — "Wings variable in form. Foreivimj, in N^emeobiiis, and in tlie Asiatic 

 genera, with five subcostal branches ; the upper cliscocellular vei\y minute or 

 obsolete ; the cell closed. Hiadwimj with the abdominal margin slightly channelled; 

 the precostal vein either short or prominently developed ; cell closed. Boihj 

 moderately sized. Eyes either naked or hairy. Antennae slender, with a sliort 

 spatulato, or more elongated club. Palpi horizontal, generally small and slender. 

 Forelegs of male small, bru,^h-like, clothed with long fine hairs. Forelegs of 

 female longer, slender, scaled ; tarsi perfect. 



L.^RVA. — Sliort; sub-onisciform ; pubescent, or with numerous dorsal and 

 lateral short fine hairs. 



Pl'PA. — Short ; fusiform ; tnincatedl_7 I'ounded in front, fiatteneil ; smooth, or 

 laterally pubescent; recumbently attached to a leaf by the tail aud a median girth. 



Genus DODONA. 



Dodona, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. ii. p. 91 (1861). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 309 (1886). 

 Stauding-r and Scliii z, Exot. Schinett. ii. p. 231 (1892). Leech, Butt, of Cliin.i, etc., i. p. 290 

 (1893). 



Imago. — Forew'uuj triangular ; costa very slightly arched from the base, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin slight!}' oblique and almost even ; cell somewhat narrow, 

 extending to half the wing ; costal vein short, bent upward and ending on the 

 costa at half length of the margin ; first and second subcostal branches emitted 

 before end of the cell, both short, third branch at one-third, fourth at nearly two- 

 thirds and ending at the apex, fifth ending below the apex ; upper discocellular 

 veinlet obsolete, middle and lower discocellular deeply concave, ot nearly equal 

 length ; upper radial emitted in a line with the subcostal, lower radial from middle 

 of the discocellulars ; middle median veinlet emitted immediately before lower end 

 of the cell. Htiidifing short, somewhat triangular, produced posteriorly ; costal 

 margin abruptly lobate at the base, apex rounded, exterior margin obliquely convex, 

 sliglitly scalloped, angled outward at end of upper median, and the anal angle 



