178 NOCTUIDiE. 



pale line at base and whitish tips ; the underside red-brown 

 irrorated with white. 



5 . Fore wing much greyer, the postmedial patch rufous. 

 Hah. Br. Gtjiana, Demarara (Rodivay), 1 $ ; Brazil, type t <S 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 42 millim. 



4532. Closteromorpha modesta. (Plate CXLI. fig. 24.) 

 Closteromorpha modesta, Butler, Traus. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 69. 



cS . Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 rufous irrorated with a few large black scales, the ventral surface 

 dark red-brown, the genital tufts white. Fore wing rufous, the 

 apical area beyond the reniform down to vein 4 deep chocolate- 

 brown with some blue-white suffusion on costal area between post- 

 medial and subterminal lines ; antemedial line rufous, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then slightly sinuous ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a whitish point defined by brown ; reniform an oblique 

 fuscous black bar wdth white annulus ; postmedial line whitish, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein fi, incurved 

 to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and 

 oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line represented by two white 

 points below costa, then excurved and almost obsolete to vein 3, 

 then whitish and oblique to tornus. Hind wing black-brown with 

 a reddish tinge. Underside of both wings black-brown ; fore wing 

 with the inner and terminal areas greyish and with two subterminal 

 white points below costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Parana de Buyassu {Austen), 1 J , 

 Parantins (Trail), 1 rf type. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus NEOCALYMNIA, nov. 



Type, N. obconica. 



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

 middle of frons, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; fore and 

 raid tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibia and 1st joint of tarsus 

 moderately fringed with hair above and below ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly excurved 

 at middle, then excised to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 

 tornus lobed ; 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. 



*4533. Neocalymnia obconica. 



Neocalymnia obconica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 302 (1908). 



6 . Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; pectus whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 rufous with a yellowish tinge. Fore wing red-brown mixed with 

 greyish ochreous, the basal area more rufous, a large conical 

 cbocolate-brown patch on postmedial area from costa to vein 3 ; 

 subbasal line absent ; antemedial line greyish defined by brown on 



