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*4358. Pyrrhia stilla. 



Pyrrhia stilla, Grote, N. Am. Ent, i. p. 45 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 " N. Am. p. 216. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Pore wing orange-red, 

 the basal area bright orange without markings ; stigmata obsolete ; 

 medial shade dark, strong, diffused on outer side, acutely angled 

 outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line dark, obsolete at 

 costa, slightly incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct ; cilia bright red. Hind wing pale yellow, 

 blackish at base ; a blackish discoidal lunule and broad diffused 

 terminal band, the termen tinged with red ; the underside with 

 faint discoidal mark, with reddish mark on costa above it, a diffused 

 red postmedial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., W. States, Colorado, Idaho Springs, New Mexico. 

 Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Genus CALLCECIA, nov. 



Type, C. svinhoei. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; frons 

 with large corneous prominence with raised edges, the lower edge produced to 

 a plate grooved in front, a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna? 

 of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 ft obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4359. Callcecia svinhoei. 



Anthoecia swinhcei, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 162 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 312. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus and legs yellow, the tibiae 

 brown ringed with yellow ; abdomen yellow irrorated with brown. 



Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated with black ; traces of a 

 waved dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, blackish, waved ; orbicular and reniform absent ; 



