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near the middle of the hind-margin. They are blackish, varied 

 with reddish-brown and pale bluish-white, and with double 

 black and white sub-marginal lines. The fore-wings are marked 

 with fine waved zig-zag white lines, and the whole of the central 

 area is white tinged with grey, and contains two unequal and 

 remote white cellular spots, surrounded with grey. The 

 marginal area is spotted with red. The hind-wings are broad, 

 and nearly square ; blackish, with the middle of the marginal 

 area bluish-white. There is a central lunule circled with white, 

 and a fine waved line, angulated opposite the cell. 



FAMILY HYPENID^E. 



The antennae are straight, and pectinated or ciliated, but 

 not nodose or tufted ; the palpi are long, pilose, and 

 straight ; the front of the head is furnished with a pointed pro- 

 jection ; and the legs are long, but without tufts of hair or 

 scales, though the fore-wings are often ornamented with clusters 

 of raised scales. The larvae are long and slender, with the 

 first pair of pro-legs rudimentary or absent. The pupa is en- 

 closed in a slight cocoon. 



GENUS CALYMMA. 



Calymma, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 281 (1822?). 

 Dichromia, Guene'e, Spec. Gdn. Lepid. Delt. et Pyr. p. 18 



(1854); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. xvi. p. 13 (1858); 



Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iii. p. 72 (1895), nec 



Dichroma, Westwood. 



The long, slender palpi, oblong fore-wings, and rounded 

 yellow hind-wings bordered with black, are sufficient characters 

 to distinguish this small East Indian genus, the type of which 

 is Noftua orosia^ Cramer. 



