17^ NocruiD.i:. 



pale lino at base and whitish tips ; the underside red-brown 

 irroratt'd with whiti-. 



2 . Fore wing much greyer, the postmedial patch rufous. 

 Hab. Hit. Guiana, DeiusiTara (liodicay), 1 $; Brazil, typetc? 

 in Coll. llothschild. Exj). 42 milliin. 



453i\ Closteromorpha modesta. (Plate CXLI. fig. 24.) 



Closteromorpha modesta, Butler, Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1878, p. 69. 



S . Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi ringed with whitish : abdomen 

 rufous irroratcd with a few large black scales, the ventral surface 

 dark red-brown, the genital tufts white. Fore wing rufous, the 

 apical area beyond the reniform down to vein 4 deep chocolate- 

 brown with some blue-white suilusion on costal area between post- 

 medial and subterminal lines; antemedial line rufous, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then slightly sinuous ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a Avhitish point defined by brown ; reniform an oblicjue 

 fuscous black bar with white annulus ; postmedial line whitish, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein f5, incurved 

 to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and 

 oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line represented by two white 

 ])oints below costa, then excurved and almost obsolete to vein 3, 

 then Avhitish and oblique to tornus. Hind wing black-brown with 

 a reddish tinge. Underside of both wings black-brown ; fore wing 

 with the inner and terminal areas greyish and with two subterminal 

 white points below costa. 



Ilah. Brazil, Amazons, Parana de Buyassu (^Austen'), 1 J, 

 Barantins (^Trail), 1 (S type. E.cp. 40 millim. 



Genus NEOCALYMNIA, nov. 



Type, N. obeonica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; paljii ii|)turiipd, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons, the 3rd short ; Irons smooth ; ej-es large, round ; antenna' of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; fore and 

 mid i\h\od moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibia and 1st joint of tarsus 

 moderately fringed with hair above and below; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien strongly excurved 

 at middle, then excised to tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (■) from u]>per angle; 7,8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing wilh the 

 tornus lobed ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars: G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



*4533. Neocalynmia obeonica. 

 Neocalymnia obeonica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 302 (1908). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; jioctus whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 rufous with a yellowish tinge. Fore wing red-brown mixed with 

 greyish ochrcous, the basal area more rufous, a large conical 

 chocolate-brown patch on postmedial area from costa to vein 3 ; 

 subbasal line absent ; antemedial line greyish defined by brown on 



