OCIIROCALAMA. 2'S I 



largo, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex, 

 of female minutely serrate ; thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales 

 and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 

 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4601. Ochrocalama xanthia. 



Megalodes xanthia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. Hi. p. 434 (1005). 



d . Head and thorax yellow mixed with rufous, the tips of teguhe 

 and upper edge of patagia with some black scales ; tibiae and tarsi 

 brownish, the latter ringed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous yellow. 

 Fore wing yellow sparsely irrorated with rufous, the terminal area 

 paler; a subbasal dark point in cell; an ill-defined rufous ante- 

 medial line, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform rounded, yellow with 

 some rufous scales in centre, defined by red-brown before and 

 between them in cell and by an irregular fascia on median nervure 

 expanding at base of vein 2 and beyond lower angle of cell ; a 

 red- brown medial line oblique from costa to reniform, oblique and 





Fig. 88. — Ochrocalama xanthia , ,-* . [-. 



sinuous from cell to inner margin ; an ill-defined rufous postmedial 

 line, oblique from costa to vein 0, then waved, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some short red-brown streaks beyond it on costa ; an 

 ill-defined waved red-brown subterminal line, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of red-brcwn 

 striae ; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, 

 the terminal area slightly irrorated with red-brown ; a brown 

 discoidal lunule, traces of a waved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2 and of a subterminal series of small spots ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown ; the underside 

 with the costa slightly irrorated with rufous, a brown discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with red-brown. 



Bab. Mashonaland (Bobbie), 1 $ ; Transvaal (Pead), 2 d , 1 5 , 

 Piet Ketief (Crawshoy), Id; Natal, Delvin (Stanger), 1 d type, 

 Bushman's R. (Hutchinson), 1 £ '> Fondoland, Nggeleni (Swinny), 

 1 d . Exp. 28-38 millim. 



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