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whitish on inner side, nearly erect and slightly incurved from sub- 

 costal nervure to vein 1 ; orbicular a dark point, the reniforrn a 

 small lunule faintly denned by blackish ; a rather diffused oblique 

 sinuous fuscous medial line ; postmedial line black defined by "white 

 on outer side, very oblique and ending near torn us, excurved from 

 below costa to vein 4, the area beyond it whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous to the subterminal line, which is whitish defined on inner 

 side by fuscous suffusion between veins 6 and 3, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7 and ending at tornus ; a dark brown terminal line ; 

 cilia pale yellow at base, brownish at tips. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with reddish brown ; a large dark discoidal lunule and 

 traces of a curved postmedial line ; some dark points on termen ; 

 cilia pale yellow at base, brownish at tips ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with dark brown, a large black-brown discoidal lunule, 

 curved postmedial line and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hab. Uganda, Ruwenzori, 6000 feet (Legge), 1 § type. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



4547. Calymnia pyralina. 



Noctua pyralina, Schiff. Wien Verz. p. 88 (1776); View. Tab. Verz. ii. 



p. 87 (1789); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 203; Dup. Lep Fr. yii. 



pt. 1, p. 122, pi. 108. f. 6 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 61 ; 



Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 129 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203. 

 Noctua corusca, Esp. Schmett, iv. pi. 135. ff. 4, 5 (1788). 



Head and thorax bright chestnut-red : pectus greyish ; tibial 

 spurs whitish, the tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen pale grey- 

 brown, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface whitish tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing bright chestnut-red ; traces of an oblique 

 brownish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemediai 

 line brown, slightly defined on inner side by yellowish towards 

 costa, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular and reniforrn hardly traceable, 

 the former round with minute black point in centre, the latter with 

 slight dark lunule ; medial line dark, rather diffused, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6 well beyond the cell, oblique and minutely waved 

 below vein 4 ; postmedial line brown defined by white on outer 

 side from costa to vein 4, very oblique to vein 6, oblique and 

 slightly incurved below vein 5, some white irroration beyond it on 

 costal area; subterminal line white and oblique towards costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, then indistinct, pale, incurved to post- 

 medial line at discal fold ; two small black subapical spots followed 

 by a terminal series of black points ; cilia with a slight dark 

 line through them. Hind wing whitish ochreous tinged with 

 brown especially on terminal area; the termen slightly and cilia 

 pale yellow tinged with rufous on apical half; the underside 

 yellowish white, the costal area tinged and irrorated with rufous, a 

 slight dark discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line 

 from costa to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing browner. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 



