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8857. Calogramma festiva. 



Noctua /estiva, Donov. Ins. New Holland, pi. 36 (1805); Moore, Lep. Coyl. 



iii. p. 21, pi. 146. f. 6 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 24'.). 

 Polia picta, Guer. Vov. de Coquille, ii. p. 285, pi. 19. f. 7 (1830) ; Boisd. 



Voy.de l*Astrolabe,'Lep. p. 241 (1832). 



Head and thorax prde orange-yellow largely suffused with crimson ; 

 palpi crimson except at extremities of the joints ; frons with crimson 

 bar ; tegulse with crimson medial line ; patagia with oblique black 

 streak at base of upper edge, oblique medial crimson bar and 

 crimson tips ; pectus and tibiae mostly crimson, the tarsi yellowish 

 white ; abdomen yellowish white, the basal crest tinged with orange. 

 Fore wing yellowish white, a large truncate triangular crimson 

 patch extending on costa from middle to near apex and down to 

 median nervure and vein 4, with a crimson band from it to inner 

 margin on inner side of postmedial line ; slight crimson streaks on 

 base of costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black spot on costa and striga from cell ; a double very 



Fig. 60.— Calogramma festiva, <$ . \. 



oblique black liue from subcostal nervure at antemedial line to 

 vein 1 at the subbasal striga ; crimson streaks on costa and sub- 

 costal nervure, two black spots below costa, an oblique streak below 

 submedian fold and angled mark above inner margin before the 

 antemedial line, which is double, black, angled outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, excurved at submedian fold and above 

 inner margin ; claviform narrow and elongate, defined by black ; a 

 black streak above median nervure to the orbicular, which is 

 oblique defined by black at sides and with slight brown line in 

 middle, two slight black streaks below it defining base of vein 1 ; 

 reniform large defined by black, interrupted by pale streaks at lower 

 angle of cell, its centre with crimson patch partly defined by black, 

 its upper extremity produced to a long acute point and its outer 

 edge angled inwards at middle, some black before it in upper part 

 of cell aud diffused black streaks from it to postmedial line in the 

 interspaces ; postmedial line double filled in with pale yellow, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, 

 incurved at discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle, 

 some white points beyond it on costa and two slight black marks 

 below costa on edge of the crimson patch ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by black points above veins 6 and 5 and above and below 



