■242 EUTEEPIA; SYNTHYMIA.; MEGALODES. By W. Warren. 



123. Genus: Euterpia Gum. 



Tongue well-developed; frons slightly protuberant and roughened; vertex and irons both roughhaired ; 

 palpi upturned, short; the second segment rough haired, the terminal short; antennae of <J shortly ciliated, in 

 both sexes with a short lateral bristle from each segment; thorax, pectus, femora, and tibiae densely woolly; 

 thorax and abdomen without crests ; abdomen of $ conical, with exserted ovipositor. Larva on seeds of Cariophylla- 

 ceae in July, pupating in a close cocoon in the ground and emerging the next summer. Type Euterpia laudeti Bsd. 



laudeti. E. laudeti Bsd. (= cretacea Ev.) (48 i). Forewing chalk white; inner line velvety black, formed of 



lunules between the veins, inwardly edged with whitish; the subbasal line similar, but outwardly white- 

 edged, the space between them violet; outer line excurved above, distinctly lunulate-dentate, black edged 

 outwardly with white, preceded by a violet band, interrupted at middle and followed by a second, with 

 dentate outer edge, which is blackened at costa and on inner margin, beyond which the subterminal line is 

 sometimes marked by some black spots following it; termen and fringe white; orbicular stigma a black annulus; 

 reniform black-edged, filled up with leaden purple and white scales; hindwing white with dark grey cellspot and 



■ainata SUDmar g ma l band of varying clearness, rarely nearly absent; — ab. roseomarginata Calb. has the whole forewing 

 dusted with rosy. Found in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Macedonia, S. E. Eussia; in Armenia, Syria, Pontus, and 

 Turania. Larva y3llowish white; head pale brown with 2 dark dots above; the plates pale brown, dotted with 

 black; tubercles and all the feet black; feeding on seeds of Silene otites and volgensis and Gypsophila paniculata. 



124. Genus: Syntliymia Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons strongly produced into a tridentate projection extending beyond the palpi, 

 which are shortly porrect and hairy, the third segment small and drooping; vertex and frons thickly haired; 

 antennae of $ simple, filiform, somewhat thicker than in $; ovipositor of $ exserted; thorax and ab- 

 domen without crests. Larva with 16 feet; narrow in front, the head small. The imago frequents dry 

 mountain tracts in spring. Type S. fixa F. 

 fixa. S. fixa F. (= monogramma Hbn.) (48 i). Forewing ash grey in the <$, darker, slightly greenish grey 



in the $, the outer half of wing suffused with brownish, the whole speckled with black; orbicular stigma 

 oval, grey in a whitish ring, placed vertically at the edge of the grey basal space; reniform also vertical, 

 an elongate figure of 8, white with dark grey centres; space between them crossed by a deep brown band, 

 sometimes velvety brown in cell, the median vein showing white across it; inner and outer lines brownish, 

 ill defined; the inner waved, nearly vertical, the outer sinuous edged by grey and on the costa whitish; 

 subterminal line thick, whitish; fringe dark-mottled; hindwing orange, deeper in $ than in £; the base 

 diffusely dark; terminal border olive brown, broad at apex, with traces of a submarginal line on inner 

 griseofusa. margin; in the <$ more fuscous tinged, with traces of outer and submarginal lines; in the ab. griseofusa ab. 

 nov. (= ab. 2. Hmps.) the whole of the hindwing is fuscous. A South European insect, found in S. 

 France, Spain, Portugal, the Eiviera, Italy, Sicily, Malta, and Algeria. Larva dark green, the dorsum 

 lighter; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale yellow, edged with dark green; lateral stripe white, broad, with 

 dark upper edge; head small, yellowish; thoracic plate black; anal plate brown; feeding on Psoralea bituminosa. 

 cxsiceala. S. exsiccata Warr. (48 i). Forewing white flushed with rufous ochreous; inner line obscure, rufous, 



thickened on submedian fold; outer line pale, sinuous, excurved above and incurved below middle, below vein 2 

 preceded by a rufous shade ; subterminal line whitish, also with a faint rufous shade on its inner side ; terminal points 

 rufous; orbicular and reniform stigmata small, whitish, undefined; hindwing almost pure white. Merawi, Soudan. 



125. Genus: Megalodes Guen. 



Distinguished by the frontal corneous prominence being produced into a trilobed process, and a 

 less conspicuous toothed ledge below above the tongue; the thorax, pectus, and abdomen laterally furry. 

 Type Megalodes eximia Frr. 



The genus Metalopha Stgr. is certainly identical with Megalodes and must sink. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ lamellate, serrate beneath. 

 eximia. M. eximia Frr. (48 i). Forewing dull pale grey green powdered with whitish; crossed by four white 



lines, oblique and parallel in the lower half of wing, the inner simply curved, the outer strongly excurved 

 round cell, the green immediately before the lines deeper; the marginal line more slender; veins white 

 produced as fine white pencils across the green fringe; upper stigmata greenish with pale rings; hindwing 

 greenish grey, with pale outer and submarginal lines; the fringe white. — Asia Minor, Armenia, North 

 West Persia, Syria; taken at rest on flowers of Mallow. — Larva yellowish grey or green, flecked with 

 red round the small whitish yellow tubercles and the black-edged spiracles; head small, pale brown, like 

 the thoracic and anal plates: feeding in the flowerbuds of the large broad-leaved mallow. 

 gloriosa. M. gloriosa Stgr. (48 i). Forewing with the extreme base, the- central area, the marginal area, and 



fringe purple amethyst, the intervening bands deep olive green; central area with the inner and outer 

 lines paler, the whole space dusted with paler scales, with the median shade deep purple; marginal area not 

 mottled with paler; veins slightly and finely pale; fringe mottled with olive grey; stigmata very obscure, 



