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faint greyish line at base. Hind wing with the basal half gre\-- 

 brown, the terminal half fuscous brown ; an indistinct dark dis- 

 coidal lunule ; cilia pure white; the underside white tinged and 

 irrorated with reddish brown, a dark discoidal lunule and rather 

 diti'used curved postmedial line, the area beyond it suffused with 

 fuscous i'rom vein 6 to tornus. 



Ab. 1, pictn. Head and thorax bright rufous; fore wing bright 

 rufous, the inner area pinkish, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown, the orbicular and reniform more distinct. 



Fore wing with the termen and cilia crenulate towards tornus. 



Huh. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japak, Yesso (Prt/er), 1 5 ; Punjab, 

 Murree {Harford), 3 (5 , 1 $ ; Nepal (HardivicL'e), 1 (5 type. 

 Exp. 32-36 millim. 



4544. Calymnia diffinis. 



Koctua diffinis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 848 (1767) ; Esp.'Schmett. iv. 



pi. IM. f. 2; Hiibn. Eur. Schiuett., Noct. f. 202; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



pt. 1, p. 116, pi. 108. f. 4 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 60; Fit. 



Neue Beitr. pi. 130; Staud. Cat. LejJ. pal. p. 20.". 

 Cosmia confinis, Herr.-Sebaff. Scbmelt. Eur. ii. p. 224, Noct. f. 4j0 (1845). 



Head and thorax bright chestnut-red ; palpi pale brown, white in 

 front towards base ; antcnntie brown, the shaft ringed with white 

 towards base ; tegulae slightly edged with white ; pectus white ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown with slight grey 

 segmental rings, anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface white tinged 

 with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing bright chestnut-red, the 

 inner area pinkish to antemedial line, the inner half of medial and 

 postmedial areas and the terminal area rather jialer red ; subl)asal 

 line pure white, oblique, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial 

 line with wedge-shaped white mark from costa defined by brown, 

 its lower extremity bent inwards in cell, with very oblique brown 

 line defiued on inner side by pinkish from it to inner margin ; faint 

 traces of a small round orbicular and of a reddish reniform defined 

 by brown ; a rather diffused brown medial line oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line with pure 

 white triangular patch from costa to vein 0, bent outwards at lower 

 extremity and with oblique slightlj' incurved dark line defined by 

 pinkish white on outer side from it to inner margin, two white 

 points beyond it on costa and a diffused blackish streak from its 

 angle to subterminal line, which is wliite towards costa, then 

 pinkish white, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; two small subapical black spots and some minute blackish 

 points on apical half of termen ; cilia with a fine pinkish lino 

 through them. Hind wing greyish suffused with yellow-brown, the 

 terminal area darker; cilia whitish tinged with rufous at base and 

 with shjrht rufous line through them ; the underside yellowish 

 white slightly tinged with brown and the costal area irrorated with 

 rufous, a small dark discoidal spot, rather diffused sinuous post- 

 medial line from costa to subraedian fold, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



