128 NOCTCTPiE. 



brown except on inner area, the veins brown ; the termen tinged 

 with fiery red from apex to vein 2; the underside whitish, the 

 costal area suffused and irrorated with fiery red to postmedial line, 

 which is black, curved, dentate, ending at submedian fold ; some 

 slight terminal dark lunules from apex to vein 5. 



Hub, Peru, Carabaya, La Oroya ( Ockenden), type f c? i ]1 Coll. 

 Druce. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus CALYMNIODES, nov. 



Type, C. basicarnea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of 

 head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, tbe 

 prothorax without crest, tbe metathorax with slight spreading crest; tibia; 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but 

 without crests. Fore wing rather narrower, the apex rectangular, the termen 

 not crenulate, oblique towards torn us ; veins 3 and 5 from near 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 discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. » 



Sect. 1 Abdomen of male clothed with long woolly hair. 



A. Fore wing of male with the basal area clothed with thick woolly hair. 



4463. Calymniodes basicarnea. 



Hadena basicarnea, Wlk. xi. 587 (1857). 



Calymnia cirrus, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 5 (1S74). 



<$ . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; antennae brown, the 

 shaft with white points above towards base ; pectus and legs grey- 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with ochreous white ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with the basal area 

 thickly clothed with purplish-red hair ; antemedial line white, 

 oblique, sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin and confluent 

 with the postmedial line ; orbicular a small orange spot defined by 



Fig. 40. — Calymniodes basicarnea, $ . \. 



deep red ; reniform represented by a slight orange and red bar 

 dilated into a small spot at lower angle of cell ; an indistinct oblique 

 dark medial line ; postmedial line white, oblique, slightly excurved 

 below costa and discal fold, bent inwards above inner margin to the 

 antemedial line, a band of violaceous grey beyond it except at costa 



