1010 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 13. SPATALIA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis conspicua, capitis latitudine non 

 longior. Palpi breves, graciles, caput non superantes; articulus 

 3us minutus, acutus. Antennae thorace paullo longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas triente superans. Pedes sat graciles; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus quatuor mediocriter longis. Alee sat latae ; anticae 

 apud costam subrectae, apice vix angulatae, margine exteriore sub- 

 obliquo et nonnunquam denticulato, margine interiore fasciculate 

 Mas. — Antennae mediocriter pectinatae. Fcem. — Antennae simplices. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Illig. ; Esp. ; God. 

 Spatalia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 145, 1537. 

 Notodonta, p., Ochs; Herr.-Schceff. 

 Heterodonta et Microdonta, Duponch. 



Resembles tbe genus Parathyris. Body slender. Proboscis 

 distinct, not longer tban tbe breadth of tbe bead. Palpi short, slen- 

 der, not extending beyond the head; third joint minute, acute. 

 Antennae rather longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending for 

 one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather slen- 

 der ; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings almost straight in front, hardly angular 

 at the tips, slightly oblique along the exterior border ; interior bor- 

 der tufted in the middle ; discal areoiet intersected by a secondary 

 vein; three inferior veins; second about thrice further from the 

 third than from the first. Male. — Antennae moderately pectinated. 

 Female. — Antennae simple. 



In S. argentina the fore wings are denticulated along the exterior 

 border and the interior border is indented and deeply tufted ; in 8. 

 bicolora the outer border is entire and the interior border is slightly 

 tufted. 



1. Spatalia Argentina. 



Olivaceo-ochracea ; alee anticce basim versus aurantiacce, maculis 

 irregularibus argenteis. 



Bombyx argentina, Wien. Verz. 62, 249, 250, pi. 1, f. 1. 2. Fam. 

 R 2. Illig. N. Ausg. dess. i. 142, 2. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 184, 

 69; Mant. Ins. ii. 117, 88; EnL Syst. iii. 1, 441, 103. Gmel. 

 ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2429, 550. Esp. Schmett. iii. 267, pi. 53, 

 f. 1,2. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 63, 137. Panz. Faun. Germ. 2, 

 13. God. Lep. de France, iv. 201. Borkh, Eur. Schmett. 

 iii. 407, 151. Brahm, Ins. Kal. 392, 271. Schwarz, Raup. 

 258, 389. 



