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oblique ; cell short, extending to one-third the length ; two siibcostals from cud of 

 the cell ; discocellular very slender, outwardly oblique, concave, radial from below 

 the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before 

 the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately slender ; palpi 

 ascending, stout, short, hardly reaching to the level of the eyes, fusiform, laxly 

 squamose, very indistinctly articulated, tip minute, conical; antennae minutely 

 ciliated; legs stout, fore femora clothed with very long hairs, middle and hind 

 spurs long. 



HOMODES CROCEA (Plate 151, Fig. 11). 



Homodes crocea, Guenee, Noct. ii. [). 280, pi. 11, fig. 2 (1852). 

 HornoJes vivida, Gueaee, id. p. 280. 



Dark saffron-yellow ; all the markings bordered with ochreous-red : forewing 

 with a violet-brown transverse basal, a subbasal, and a postmedial sinuous band, a 

 broader waved medial band, and a lunular outer discal band, all traversed by metallic 

 silvery speckles ; between the postmedial and outer discal line is a paler violet zigzag 

 band without silvery speckles ; and along the outer border of the wing is a sub- 

 marginal row of black linear spots, and a marginal row of violet-grey triangular 

 spots ; a prominent dark violet-brown raised orbicular spot, and two similar spots at 

 end of the cell, each speckled with metallic-silvery scales : hindwing with transverse 

 medial, postmedial, and outer discal violet-brown silvery-speckled bands, an inter- 

 mediate paler discal zigzag band, and submarginal black linear spots ; cilia alternated 

 with violet-brown and red. Body, palpi, and legs above ochreous-red. 



Expanse 1;^ inch. 



Family ERIOPID^. 



Forewing often angular on exterior border ; with distinct lines. Thorax and 

 abdomen crested ; antennte more or less distorted and bent in the male, minutely 

 pectinated. Larva with sixteen feet, cylindrical. Pupa subterranean. 



Genus CALLOPISTRIA. 



Callopistria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 216 (1818-25); Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 143 



(1882). 

 Lagopus* Latr. N. Diet. H. N. xvii. p. 199 (1816 ?) 

 Eriopus, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 365 (1825). 



Forewing acuminate at the apex ; exterior margin oblique, angular in the middle, 

 scalloped ; first subcostal emitted at half length of the cell, second close to end of 

 the cell, trifid, third and fourth at nearly equal distances apart from base of second, 



• Pieviously used for a genus of Birds. 



