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HOCTtriDvK. 



costa brown with slight black streaks in the interspaces ; a blackish 

 fascia below basal half of median nervure and another above inner 

 margin from near base to middle ; a slight snbbasal white streak 

 below costa, a large triangular mark below cell and an oblique 

 striga above inner margin ; an oblique antemedial white striga 

 from vein 1 to inner margin, on which there is a white streak ; 

 orbicular and reniform denned by yellowish white, the former 

 very small, oblique wedge-shaped, the latter produced at upper 

 extremity; a downcurved white streak from median nervure just 

 beyond the triangular mark bent upwards to vein 2 beyond middle ; 

 some blackish streaks in the interspaces beyond the cell ; a white 



Fig. 50. — Ckiripha involuta, J. \. 



streak from lower angle of cell curved upwards to vein 5, then 

 downwards to termen at vein 4; some blackish subtcrmiual wedge- 

 shaped marks in the interspaces ; a white terminal band with 

 oblique white streaks before it below veins 7, 4, and 3, the 

 last longer and ending above the bent up streak in submedian 

 interspace; a fine dark terminal line; cilia brown with yellowish 

 white line at base. Hind wing whitish, the marginal areas broadly 

 suffused with brown, the veins brown ; a dark discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial line ; cilia white, brown at tips ; the underside 

 yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas tinged and irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, diffused postmedial line, 

 and fine black terminal line. 



Hub. Puxjab, Kulu (Hocking), 1 £ > Kasauli, 1 2 . Exp. 52 

 millim. Type t 6 in Mus. Oxon. 



Genus CALOGRAMMA. 



Calogramma, Guen. Noct. i. p. 165 (1852). 



Type. 

 festiva. 



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

 middle of irons and broadly sealed, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost, entirely with scales, 

 the prothorax without distinct crest, the roetathorax with double crest ; tibiie 

 broadly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen eveuly curved and slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle ; i) 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 well below middle of disco- 

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

 only. 



