HYPOCALAMIA. 



495 



Genus HYPOCALAMIA, nov. 



Type, H. meter ythra. 



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

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

 short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with 

 hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 4 from near angle of cell ; fi from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper single ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4986. Hypocalamia meterythra. 



Bombycia meterythra, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207(1894). 



S . Head and thorax pale pinkish flesh-colour mixed with 

 bright red; tarsi red with slight white rings; abdomen pale 

 ochreous brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing tinged with 

 ochreous and irrorated with brown, suffused in parts with yellow- 

 brown and the medial area with pale pink ; subbasal line brown 

 defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line brown defined by white on inner side, angled 

 inwards in cell, then oblique, waved ; elaviform absent ; orbicular 

 and renifortn with pink centres and slight white annuli defined by 

 dark brown, the former round, connected by streaks below subcostal 

 and above median nervures with the latter which is defined on 



Fig. 238. — Hypocalamia meterythra, $ . ]. 



outer side by small dentate brown marks, the mark at upper 

 extremity extending to postmedial line ; a diffused medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line formed by dark brown lunules defined by white 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 defined by red-brown suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards 

 at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and to tornus, and with a diffused dentate 

 line beyond it except towards apex which is whitish ; a terminal 

 series of blackish striae ; cilia pale red. Hind wing bright brick- 

 red, the cilia yellowish white ; the underside brick -red, the costal 

 area paler, a faint discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Punjab, Murree, 1 <S type. Exp. 36 millim. 



