. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. THOLERA.—ODONTELIA. 219 white, waved, and dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with brown, more strongly in female; the underside with the costa irz'orated with brown, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. fernujinea. Much paler.—Tyrol, Cariuthia, Ab. 2. Right hind wing with the colour and markings of fore wing except o
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. THOLERA.—ODONTELIA. 219 white, waved, and dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with brown, more strongly in female; the underside with the costa irz'orated with brown, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. fernujinea. Much paler.—Tyrol, Cariuthia, Ab. 2. Right hind wing with the colour and markings of fore wing except on costal area. Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; France ; Gekmany, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; N. and C. Italy ; Austria, Hungary, Leech Coll., Dalmatia ; Scandinavia ; E,ussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 38-40 milim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 81; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 139, pi. 2. Eronzy olive-brown ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines whitish with dark edges; lateral line hardly paler, with dark edges ; head brownish. Food-plant: Grasses. 4-6. Genus ODONTELIA, nov. Type, 0. onai-giana. Proboscis absent in male, rather slender in female ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antenniE of male bipectiuate, with rather long stiffbranches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair and without distinct crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from the angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceUulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 1437. Odontelia margiana. Thargelia margiana, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 182, pi. ii. f. 14 (1904). 6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with
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