184 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Callimorpha phileta^ West wood, in Jardine's Nat.. Library, 

 Exot. Moths, p. 190, pi. 23, fig. 3 (1841). 



This is a West African insect. It expands 2^ inches. 

 Antennae black; head and thorax deep red, the latter with 

 several black spots and streaks. The fore-wings are black 

 with a white band passing from beyond the middle of the 

 costa to the hinder angle. The hind-wings are yellow, with 

 a broad black band on the hind margin, narrowing towards the 

 hinder angle, to which it does not extend. The abdomen 

 is yellow, like the hind-wings, with black streaks. The legs 

 are black, marked with white. 



FAMILY XVII. CALLIDULID^E. 



This is a small Family, of which the transformations have 

 not yet been discovered, which is exclusively confined to the 

 Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions, only touching the Palse- 

 arctic Region in the debatable ground of Amurland and 

 Japan. They are Moths of rather small size, seldom much 

 exceeding an inch and a half in expanse, and have short 

 slender bodies, and short and very broad fore-wings, frequently 

 truncated at the end, and sometimes excavated on the hind 

 margin. The hind-wings form an oval from the base, and 

 have a separate costal and two sub-median nervures ; the cell 

 is open on the hind-wings. The antennae are short and 

 simple. The usual colour of the wings is brown, more or less 

 tinged with reddish or yellowish, and with a pale transverse 

 band, white, yellow, or red, on the fore-wings. The under side 

 is yellowish, irrorated with black, and more or less varied 

 with other colours. There is a patch of raised scales on the 

 hind-wings of the male. The flight is diurnal, and the Moths 

 have considerable resemblance to Lemoniina ; and they were, 

 in fact, generally regarded either as Butterflies or as Geometry 



