OCHROCALAMA. 



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large, rounJ ; autenniE of male bipectinate with ratlier long bnitichos to apex, 

 of female minutely serrate ; tliorax clothed with rough hair aud hair-like scales 

 and without crests; tibisi smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellularB; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4601. Ochrocalania xanthia. 



Megalocles xantliia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. ]\lus. iii. p. 434 (1905). 



cJ . Head aud thorax j-ellow mixed with rufous, the tips of tegula? 

 and upper edge of patagia with some black scales ; tibiaj and tarsi 

 brownish, the latter ringed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous yellow. 

 Fore wing yellow sparsely irrorated with rufous, the terminal area 

 paler; a subbasal dark point in cell; an ill-defined rufous ante- 

 medial line, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform rounded, yellow with 

 some rufous scales in centre, defined by red-brown before and 

 between them in cell and b}" an irregular fascia on median nervure 

 expanding at base of vein 2 and beyond lower angle of cell ; a 

 red-brown medial line oblique from costa to reniform, oblique aud 



Fig. 88. — OchwcahiiiHi .rautliiii. (^ . 



sinuous from cell to inner margin ; an ill-defined rufous postmedial 

 line, oblique from costa to vein (5, then waved, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some short red-brown streaks beyond it on costa ; an 

 ill-defined waved red-brown subterminal line, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of red-brown 

 striae ; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, 

 the terminal area slightly irrorated with red-brown ; a brown 

 discoidal lunule, traces of a waved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2 and of a subterminal series of small spots ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown ; the underside 

 with the costa slightly irrorated with rufous, a brown discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



$ . Hind wing wholly suftu.sed with red-brown. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie), 1 $ ; Transvaat. {Pead), 2 iS , 1 J , 

 Piet Ketief (Crawshmj), 1 c5' ; Natal, Delvin (SUcnger), 1 cj" type, 

 Bushman's R. {Hutchinson), 1 $ ; Tondolanu, Nggeleni {ISwinny), 

 1 6 . Exp. 28-38 millim. 



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