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darker transverse discal fascia : forewing with a prominent oval white spot at end 

 of the cell. Thorax, base of abdomen above, abdomen beneath, femora, hind tibiae, 

 and tarsi brown ; front of thorax, palpi, head, pectus, fore and middle tibiae, and 

 abdomen above scarlet. 



Expanse 1|- to If inch. 



This is probably the female of the preceding species. 



Genus PASIPEDA. 

 Pasipeda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1795 (1858). 

 Male and female : forewing somewhat more triangular in form than in Galesia ; 

 cell extending half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the 

 cell, second at one-seventh, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, ascending and touching 

 third near its base; discocellular concave, bent near each end, radials from the 

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

 submedian curved : hindwing short, exterior margin less convex than in Calesia ; 

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

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

 cell ; lower at nearly one-half. Body moderately slender ; palpi ascending, slightly 

 shorter than in Calesia ; antennjB minutely ciliated in male. 



PASIPEDA H^MORRHOA 



Calesia hamorrhoa, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 258 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xiv. p. 1409. 

 Calesia Patnia, Felder et Rogeuh. Novara Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 117, fig. 17 (1871). 



Male and female. Dark cinereous-brown ; with very faint traces of darker wavy 

 transverse discal and submarginal fascige ; forewing, in some specimens, with an 

 indistinct paler cinereous reniform spot, and slightly speckled outer borders to the 

 wavy fascise. Thorax, front of head, base of abdomen above, femora above, and 

 tarsi cinereous-brown ; abdomen above and beneath, palpi, pectus, and tibite scarlet, 

 the abdomen beneath in some being tinged with brown. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Larva half -looped ; with twelve legs ; colour dark cinereous violaceous-brown, 

 marbled with slender irregular black lines ; the sixth to eighth segment also with a 

 transverse black stripe ; head, middle and hind legs red ; front legs black. 



PASIPEDA RUFIPALPIS. 



Pasipeda rnfipalpis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1795 (1858), ?. 

 "Female. Dark brown, cinereous-l)rown beneath. Wings with two or three 

 darker undulating very indistinct hues : forewings with a minute whitish dot at end 



