CALAMISTIS. 



4671. Calamistis obliquifascia. 

 Sesamia obliquifascia, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 108, pi. iv. f. 15 



(1909). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with 

 fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd joint fuscous at sides. Fore wing 

 ochreous white irrorated with black, the veins streaked with 

 whitish; a rather diffused black streak below base of cell; a faint 

 whitish discoidal lunule ; an oblique whitish band from apex to 

 inner margin beyond middle, defined on outer side by slight blackish 

 marks ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish at 

 base, mixed with black at tips. Hind wiug whitish slightly tinged 

 with brown ; a terminal series of slight dark striae from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Uganda, Ruwenzori, 3500' ( Wollaston), 1 c? type ; Trans- 

 vaal, White R. (Cooke), 1 J . Exp. 24 millim. 



*4672, Calamistis micro sticta. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 10.) 



Polia microsticta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 233 (1891). 



<3 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with dark brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons dark brown ; antennae ochreous white ; legs dark 

 brown mixed with grey ; the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous, the cell 

 and costal area to near apex tinged with purplish pink and irro- 

 rated with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark 

 striae from costa aud cell ; anteraedial line indistinct, double, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 to inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform very small, defined by black, the former ochreous, 

 oblique V 8na P e< ^' open above, the latter with dark centre and 

 ochreous annulus, a blackish streak between them in cell ; post- 

 medial line rather indistinct, with black point on costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points 

 on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line obsolete on 

 costal area, oblique from vein 6 to inner margin, ochreous defined 

 by reddish brown on inner side and with dark brown, rufous, and 

 grey irroration beyond it ; a terminal series of small black lunules; 

 cilia fulvous yellow at base, chequered ochreous and black at tips. 

 Hind wing ochreous uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; a 

 slight dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous 

 irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule, indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line with minute dark streaks on the veins, and traces 

 of diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Sikhim (Mvller), 1 J type. Exp. 36 millim. 



