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NOCTDID^. 



4778. Ommatostola lintneri. 



Ommatostola lintneri, GrntQ,'B\}\\. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 112 (1873); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 185. 



Head and thorax white tinged with reddish ochreous ; ahdomen 

 white. Fore wing white tinged with reddish ochreous except on 

 costal area ; the veins streaked with white and irrorated with 

 fuscous; antemedial line represented by slight black points on the 

 veins ; a white streak at lower angle of cell with more prominent 

 black irroration before and beyond it ; a postmedial series of black 



Fig. 154. — Ommatostola lintneri, (^. \. 



points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 cilia pale rufous. Hind wing Avhite, the veins sliglitly tinged with 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with 

 ochreous. 



Hob. U.S.A., iS'ew York, 1 S , ^ 2 ^yp^, New Jersey, Anglesea. 

 Exp. 46-50 millim. 



Genus CALAMIA. 



Type. 



Calamia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 240 (1827) vi'rens. 



Luceria, Hein. Schmett. Deutscli. i. p. 442 (Oct. 1859), nee 



Walker.l^Lep. Nov. (1859) virens. 



Zoiheca, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 68 (1874) tranquilla-. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, short, fringed with long hair ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenn.'e of male typically minutely 

 serrate and fasciculate; head aud thorax clothed with hair only and without 

 crests; tibife moderately fringed with hair, the fore tarsi with the spines 

 strong; abdomen clothed with hair and with lateral fringes of hair but 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu obliquely 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 annstomosing 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 diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. {Calamia). Antennse of male minutely serrate. 



A. Fore wing yellow with rufous patch on medial costal area 



B. Fore wing pale green without rufous patch on costa 



flavirufa. 

 virens. 



4779. Calamia flavirufa, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 29.) 



$. Heail and thorax pale lemon-yellow ; palpi rufous irrorated! 

 with white ; sides of frons and antennae rufous ; pectus and legs, 

 rufous irrorated with white ; abdomen pale ochreous irroratec] 



