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thorax with a broad black band in front and with a black mark on each shoulder ; 

 tarsi black above, posterior tarsi brown. 



" Expanse 14 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the Collection of Mr. E. L. Layard. 



Genus CALESIA. 

 Calesia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 257 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1408. 

 Male : forewing elongated, broad ; costa arched towards the end ; ciUa broad, 

 double scaled ; a glandular patch of erectile hairs on the upperside, extending from 

 the middle of the costal edge over end of the cell ; the cell extending to half length 

 of the wing ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, second from 

 close to end of the cell, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, free and widely separated 

 from the third ; discocellular inwardly-oblique, bent near each end, radials from the 

 angles ; middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before the 

 end ; submedian much recurved : hindwing very broad ; exterior margin convex ; 

 cell extending one-fourth the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 concave, radial from near the lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at one-half ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately slender, 

 abdomen pointed at the apex ; palpi ascending, compressed, laxly squamose, second 

 joint reaching the vertex, third joint long, three-fourths the length of second, slender; 

 antennte ciliated and with longer projecting lashes ; legs rather long and slender, 

 spurs also long and slender. 

 Type, C. dasyptera. 



CALESIA DASYPTERA. 



Erelms dasyptenis, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 476 (1844). $ . 



Calesia comosa, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 258, pi. 21, fig. 7 (1852), S ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. 



p. 1408. 

 Male. Both wings ochraceous cinereous-brown : forewdng with a glandular patch 

 of long hairs on the upperside, which extend from middle of the costa over the end 

 of the cell, the discal area below the tuft being brighter ochreous-brown. Front of 

 head, palpi, pectus, fore and middle tibiae, and abdomen above scarlet ; thorax and 

 base of abdomen above, and abdomen beneath, fore and middle femora, and tarsi, 

 and hindlegs ochraceous cinereous-brown. 

 Expanse If inch. 



CALESIA LEUCOSTIGMA (Plate 171, Fig. 5, ? ). 



Erebus leucosiigma, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 476 (1844), 5. 



Calesia stigmoleuca, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 258 (1852), ? ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het.'B. M.xiv. p. 1409. 



Female. Both wings ochraceous cinereous-brown, with very faint traces of a 



