132 NOCTUIDJE. 



4467. Calymniod.es obconica. (Plate CXL. fig. 18.) 



Calymniodes obconica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 300 (1908). 



Head and thorax deep rufous ; metathoraeic crest greyish ; 

 pectus grey suffused with red-brown ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface with 

 rufous. Fore wing with the basal, medial and terminal areas 

 deep rufous, the ante- and postmedial areas violaceous grey ; 

 subbasal line white, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 white, oblique, straight to vein 1, then bent outwards to join the 

 postmedial line, emitting a minute white streak in submedian fold 

 on outer side ; orbicular and reniform very faint, reddish, the 

 former round ; a faint oblique blackish medial shade from below 

 costa to inner margin ; postmedial line white, oblique to vein 6, 

 excurved to vein 5, then slightly incurved and below submedian 

 fold bent inwards to join the antemedial line, a white patch 

 beyond it on costa with a red-brown spot on it ; subterminal line 

 oblique and white from costa to vein 7, giving off white streaks on 

 the veins on the red-brown patch on inner side, then violaceous 

 grey defined on inner side by small red-brown spots, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area brown from apex to vein 2 ; a 

 small brownish discoidal spot ; cilia white, brown at apes and with 

 brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown and rufous, a 

 black discoidal spot and curved sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. S.E. Peru, Oeoneque {Ockendcn), 1 J , 1 £. Exp. 40 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. 



4468. Calymniodes grandimacula. (Plate CXL. fig. 19.) 



Agruth (jrandimacula, Guen. Noct. i. p. 296, pi. 5. f. 5 (1852). 



S . Head and teguloe bright rufous ; palpi grey-brown ; thorax 

 rufous mixed with grey-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey- 

 brown. Pore wing violaceous grey irrorated with brown; the 

 basal costal area suffused with rufous, bounded by the waved white 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 white, very oblique from costa to vein 1, where it is curved 

 outwards to meet the postmedial white line slightly defined by 

 brown on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 5, somewhat 

 inwardly oblique to submedian fold, then curved inwards to the 

 antemedial line, the enclosed area deep chestnut-red ; a slight 

 white streak from the antemedial line in submedian fold ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, fieiy red, ill-defined, the former small, the 

 latter an indistinct lunule ; some white beyond the postmedial line 

 on costal area ; the outer part of postmedial area with rufous 

 patches in the interspaces and two brown marks above inner 

 margin divided by grey streaks on the veins and by white streaks 

 towards costa ; subterminal line white and oblique from costa to 



