HTl'OCALAMIA. 



495 



Genus HYPOCALAMIA, nov. 



Type, H. meter yf lira. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of froiis and moderately frint^ed with scales, in front, the 3rd 

 short ; frons smooth ; eyes birge, rounded ; antennaj of male cihat'd ; tiiorax 

 clothed witli hair only and witliont crests ; tibi;« moderately fringed witii 

 hair ; abtlomen without crests. Fore wing witii the apex rounded, the termeii 

 evenly curved and non-creuulate ; veins 3 and 4 from near angle of cell ; (» from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 'ingle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near baj-e 

 only. 



4986. Hypocalamia meterythra. 



Bombycia meterythra, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207(1894). 



S . Head and thorax pale pinkish flesh-colour mixed \\\i\\ 

 hrifiht red; tarsi red with slight white rings: ahdomen pale 

 ochreons brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing tinged with 

 ochreous and iirorated with brown, suffused in pai'ts with yellow- 

 brown and tlie medial area with pale pink ; subbasal line brown 

 defined by wliite on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line brown defined by white on inner side, angled 

 inwards in cell, then oblique, waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform with pink centres and slight white annuli defined by 

 dark brown, the former round, connected by streaks below subcostal 

 and above median nervures with the latter which is defined on 



Fig. 238. — Hypocalamia meterythra, (^ . \. 



outer side by small dentate brown marks, the mark at upi)er 

 extremity extending to postmedial line ; a diffused medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line formed by dark brown lunules defined by white 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 defined by red-brown suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards 

 at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and to tornus, and with a diffused dentate 

 line beyond it except towards apex which is whitish ; a terminal 

 series of blackish strife ; cilia pale red. Hind wing bright brick- 

 red, the cilia yellowish wliite ; the underside brick-red, the costal 

 area paler, a faint discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



llah. Punjab, Murree, 1 J fype. Exp. 36 millim. 



