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Fore wing olive-yellow tinged in jjarts with olive-brown ; some 

 Avhitish at base and a whitish subbasal spot in the cell; anteniedial 

 line white, rather diffused towards costa, oblique and waved to 

 submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 ; a medial white ])atch in sub- 

 median interspace ; orbicular and reniforni with olive-brown centres, 

 the former with white annulus, the latter delined on inner side by 

 white and on outer by a white patch tinged with yellow at discal 

 fold; postmedial line white, interrupted between 'veins 4 and 2 

 except for a minute white streak on vein 3, oblique and sinuous 

 to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and angled inwards at sul)median 

 fold ; subterminal line represented by a series of white spots in the 

 interspaces, the spots above vein 6 and between veins 4 and 2 con- 

 nected Avith the terminal series of white striieand with small yellow 

 lunules on them, the mark below vein 6 oblique and the spot' below 

 vein 5 further from termen, two obliquely jilaced sjiots in sub- 

 median Intersjmce ; cilia chequered olive-brown and white. Hind 

 wing pale purplish brown with a curved dark medial shade, the 

 tenuinal area whitish ; a fine brownish terminal line ; cilia chequered 

 brownish ancl white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area slightly ii-rorated, a curved brown postmedial shade. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (BoJirii), 1 2 • J^^q). 52 millim. 



Genus CALOCASIA. 



Tvpe. 



Calocada, Ochs. Sohniett. Eur. iv. p. 03 (1816), non descr. ; 



Hiibn. Verz. p. 201 (1827) coryli. 



Lemas, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 59 (1829) corj/li. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond the 

 frons and fringed with long hair ; irons smooth ; eyes large, rouud ;'antenna3 

 of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and hair-like scales and without distinct crests; tibiffi fringed with 

 long hair, the tarsal joints fringed witli hair; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not erennlafe ; veins 3 and b from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked, 10 from 7, 8 giving off 9 to anastomose 

 with 7, 8 to form a minute areole, or abnormally 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 

 T) fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 

 loujosiug with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with red-brown... umhrosa. 



B. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with red-brown, 



the terminal half grey corifU. 



C Fore wing with the basal half of inner area dark. 



a. Fiire wing white irrorated with red-brown flavicoriiis. 



h. Fore wing blue-grey irror.ited with black electa. 



J). Fore wing nearly uniformly grey, the basal area not 

 darker. 

 a. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly incurved 

 below the cell. 



«'. Fore wing white irrorated with brown propiuquilinca. 



bK Fore wing fuscous grey iiifiiiita. 



I. Fore wing with the potsniedial line slightly incurved 



below the cell muf. 



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