APINA. 



449 



Genus APINA. 



Type. 



Apina, Wlk. iii. 75(3 (1855) caLlhto. 



Aiaazela, Boisd. Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 60 (1874) callisto. 



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

 frons with long flattened corneous process and quadrate corneous plate 

 below it; eyes small, reniforni ; antenna; of male bipe<^tinate with rather long 

 branches to apex; tliorix clothed with hair only and without crests; tibi;i; 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen smoothly sealed and 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 ; o obsolescent from just, below middle of discocelhilars ; 6, 

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



4924. Apina callisto. 



Apina caUido, Wlk. iii. 756 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 442. 



Head and thorax black with some white hair; sides of head, 

 tegulse, and edges of patagia with yellowish white stripes, the 

 last with some orange hair at extiemity ; fore femora fringed with 

 yellow hair, the tihite and tarsi banded with white ; abdomen orange 

 with narrow black segmental bands, the Isfc sesraent black, the 

 ventral surface banded black and white. Fore 



wing red-brown 



Fig. 215. — Apina CdlllMo, (^ . 



irrorated with yellowish white and with rufous streaks in sub- 

 median fold and the interspaces beyond the cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by a yellow striga from below costa ; anteraedial line 

 indistinct, yellowish, diifased, oblique, interrupted at submedian 

 fold, a small yellow spot just beyond it in cell and an elliptical spot 

 towards end of cell defined by black ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 yellowish, oblique and sinuous to vein 2, then bent inwards and 

 with oblique yellow bar before it beyoud the cell and spot above 

 vein 2, subtermiual band from just below costa to submedian fold, 

 oblique to vein 4, then erect, a series of small round yellowish spots 

 just before termen. Hind wing black-brown with broad postmedial 

 yellowish-white band from below costa to iuner margin, its inner 

 edge angled outwards at vein 4 and inwards at submedian fold, its 

 outer edge minutely waved and excurved at middle ; a series 



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