XYMPHALIN.E. 
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Ge.nus GODARTIA. 
Godartia, Lucas, "Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1842, p. 299;" AVestw., Gen. 
Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 282 (1850). 
Imago. — Head of moderate size, shortly tufted in front ; eyes 
smooth ; palpi 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 ; antennm 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 ^J, 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 be^'ond 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 (J, 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 liind legs short, thick, 
scaly ; tibias 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 Diadcrna 
