CALYMNIODES. IPIMORPHA. 1 47 



4490. Calymniodes fuscoma. (Plate CXLT. fig. 7.) 

 Oligia fuscoma, Sohaus, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxx. p. 102 (1906). 



2 . Head yellow ; palpi blackish at sides; frons with lateral black 

 bars ; thorax rufous, the base of tegulae yellow followed by a black 

 line; tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the 

 anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas 

 ochreous tinged with brown, the medial and postmedial areas 

 rufous irrorated with yellow ; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique brown striga from costa ; antemedial line defined by yellow 

 on inner side, angled outwards below costa and above inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reuiform with black centres and fiery- 

 orange annuli ; the former very small, elliptical, the latter small, 

 rounded above and narrowing below, with some greyish before and 

 beyond it ; a slight fiery-orange streak in submedian fold before 

 the postmedial line, which is broadly defined by yellow on outer 

 side, strongly bent outwards below costa and slightly incurved 

 below vein 5, some small yellow spots defined by brown beyond ic 

 on the veins and some small yellow spots on costa with yellow 

 streak below them ; subterminal line yellowish, slightly excurvcd 

 at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown points ; cilia rufous. Hind wing pale red-brown ; cilia 

 whitish with a pale rufous line through them ; the underside 

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

 blackish discoidal lunule and rather diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Irazu {Rogers), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Brazil, Sao Paulo, in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus IPIMORPHA. 



Type. 



Ipimorpha, Hiibn. Verz. p. 238(1827) return. 



Plastenis, Boisd. In i. Metli. p. 93 (1840) subtusa. 



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

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

 frons smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male laminate 

 and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulas produced 

 to a dorsal ridge, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest, the metathorax 

 with spreading crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair, but without crests. Fore wing 

 with the costa arched at base, then almost straight, the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen typically excised below apex, then excurved, not erenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 trom 10 anas- 

 tomosing 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. 



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