DINUMMA. CALLYNA. 355 



nearly even width throughout, the apex and outer margin rounded. 

 Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle of cell. 



2167. Dinumma placens, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1806; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 156, fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 2398. 

 Dinumma varians, Bull. III. Het. vii, p. 73, pi. 131, figs. 9, 10. 



J . Head aud thorax purplish black ; abdomen fuscous, with 

 the dorsal tufts black. Fore wing red-brown suffused with pur- 

 plish black ; a black basal patch : waved ante- and postmedial 

 lines, the latter angled beyond cell, the area between them black, 

 with a deeper black spot at end of cell ; a subapical black and 

 whitish spot on outer margin, with fine blue streaks across it ; a 

 similar spot, but with no whitish, above outer angle. Hind wing 

 fuscous. 



2 with the antemedial and outer areas of fore wing redder. 



Hcib. Dharinsala ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Rangoon. Exp. 26-34 

 millim. 



2168. Dimimma deponens, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1806; C. fy S. no. 2394. 

 Dichonia bipunctata, Motsch. Et. Ent. 1860, p. 32. 

 Dinumma largeteaui, Oberih. Et. Etit. x, p. 28, pi. 11, fig. 7. 



Differs from placens in the antemedial and outer areas of the 

 fore wing being purplish red-brown in both sexes; the basal 

 patch and medial band deep black, the latter with the inner edge 



Fig. 189. Dinumma deponens, <$ . }. 



more sinuous, the outer more irregular, and with a purplish line 

 beyond it ; black patches on outer margin below apex and at 

 centre without blue lines on them. 



Hab. Japan; China; Dharmsala. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus CALLYNA. 



Callyna, Guen. Noct. i, p. 112 (1852). 



? Calymera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 104 (1882). 



Type, C. siderea, Guen. 



Range. S. Africa ; Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma; Andamans. 



Palpi slender and closely appressed to f rons, the 3rd joint reaching 

 just above vertex of head. Antennae of male minutely ciliated ; 



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