EUTELIA. 105 



CALLOPISTRIA ARGENTILINEA. 



(Hate CXXfX., Fig. 5.) 

 Callopistria argentilinea, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



xii. p. 863, no. 6 (1857). 



" Male. Ferruginous. Abdomen cinereous. Fore-wings with 

 several undulating pale red bands ; sub-marginal line pale red, 

 very zig-zag ; orbicular and reniform stigmata also pale red ; 

 three undulating, transverse silvery lines"; reniform stigma in 

 part with a silvery border ; a row of marginal black dots, with 

 silvery lunules ; cilia with pale dots. Hind-wings cinereous 

 red ; cilia with whitish streaks. Length of the body, 5 lines ; 

 of the wings, 12 lines" (Walker). 



FAMILY EURHIPID^<:. 



GENUS EUTELIA, 



Eittelia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (1822?); Walker, 



List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 872 (1857). 

 Eurhipici) Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 70 (1829) ; id. Gen. Ind. 

 Math. p. 122 (1840); Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. 

 p. 305 (1852). 



Antennae dentated in the male, and strongly pubescent to the 

 middle, and then simple to the tip ; a large tuft of hair at the 

 base. Palpi ascending, the second joint hairy, the third long, 

 naked, sub-spatulate. Proboscis short. Thorax crested, and with 

 a large raised collar. Abdomen stout, conical, much longer 

 than the hind-wings, with the terminal segments crested, and 

 a large cottony tuft on the third segment. Tip of the abdo- 

 men with six pencils of hairs, the lateral ones long and 

 diverging. Wings slightly angulated and dentated, with very 

 distinct markings. In repose the wings are folded and the 

 abdomen raised. 



