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rather broad, grey, slightly oblique and somewhat excurved below 

 costa and cell ; orbicular and reniform with hardly traceable 

 greyish outlines, the former round ; postmedial line grey, indistinct 

 and bent outwards below costa, then broad, oblique, straight, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; a slight waved brown subterminal 

 line, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards below vein 2 ; a fine brown terminal line : cilia grey 

 mixed with brown, crimson at tips. Hind wing red-brown, the 

 interspaces of basal and costal areas greyish ; a brown discoidal 

 spot ; termen grey with a fine brown terminal line ; cilia brown at 

 base, white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal spot, and oblique postmedial line with broad 

 blackish shade beyond it from vein 4 to inner margin. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 <S , 2 $ , 

 type jpryeri. Exj\>. 38-40 millim. 



4562. Calymnia gemmella. 



Orthosia gemmella, Saalui. Lep. Madag. p. 292, f. 258 (1891). 



$ . Head and thorax bright chestnut-red, some of the scales 

 tipped with white ; antennae with the shaft white at base ; pectus 

 yellowish behind ; abdomen yellowish dorsally suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing bright chestnut-red, the costal ha]f suffused with grey to 

 the postmedial line and irrorated with a few black scales, leaving 

 the costal edge red ; a slight blackish subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a black point in cell before the antemedial line 

 which is chestnut-red, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then inwardly oblique, defined on inner side by some black scales 

 towards costa ; orbicular very small, greyish defined by black, 

 oblique elliptical ; reniform small, greyish slightly denned by 

 fuscous, the lower part more strongly on outer side, strongly con- 

 stricted at middle and figure-of-eight shaped ; postmedial line grey 

 slightly defined on each side by brown, extremely oblique from 

 costa just before apex to inner margin beyond middle, straight ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 slightly tipped with white. Hind wing yellowish white suffused 

 w T ith brown : a slight dark spot at upper angle of cell ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark points ; cilia pale yellow faintly tinged with 

 rufous ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with a few black scales and the costa tinged with 

 rufous, a black discoidal spot and terminal series of points from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Madagascar, Betsileo {Cowan), 1 § . Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus CIRRHOPHANUS. 



Type. 

 Cirrhophanus, Grote, Can. Ent. iv. p. 187 (1872) triangulifera. 



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

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with large round corneous prominence with raised edges and its 



