100 



Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



fi-ont to extremity of 2ncl joint ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white, the fore legs suffused with black-brown, the 

 mid and hind legs with red-brown. Fore wing whitish thickly 

 irromted with rufous and dark brown, the costal area darker 

 towards base ; a dark antemedial shade ; a whitish medial band 

 thickly irrorated with rufous from subcostal ner^'ure to inner 

 margin ; dark bars before and beyond the discocellulars ; a whitish 

 band thickly irrorated with rufous before the postmedial line from 

 costa to below vein 3 ; postmedial line rather diffiised black, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, below vein 3 retracted to lower 

 angle of cell, then erect ; cilia white with dark line at middle, the 

 tips with brown mixed. Hind wing deep orange, the inner margin 

 and terminal area black, the latter very broad at costa with its 

 inner edge oblique to vein 4 ; a round black discoidal spot ; cilia 

 white with a dark line at middle. Underside of fore wing black 

 irroi-ated with white, the basal inner area and bands orange-yeUow ; 

 hind wing orange-yellow, the black discoidal spot and terminal 

 band irrorated with white. 



Hab. W. AusTBALiA, Yallingup (i?. W. Turner), 1 $ type. 

 I^x^. 20 mm. 



Genus Callipiilycta, nov. 

 Type, C. metaxantha. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi slightly fringed with hair 

 above and below, in male with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned ; 

 the 3rd porrect and long, in female do\vncurved and extending 

 about three times length of head ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons 

 smooth, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated and minutely seiTate ; 

 hind tibise with the outer spurs nearly as long as the inner. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly cui-ved ; vein 3 

 from just before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell, 11 anastomosing with 12 ; 

 the retinaculum of male bar-shaped. Hind wing with the cell 

 long ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



In key differs from Cala^nochrous in the fore wing having veins 

 6, 7 stalked and 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Calliplilycta metaxantha, sp. n. 



Head yellow, the frons white, the antennae brown ringed with 

 white, the palpi white tinged with yellow and slightly in-orated 

 with brown ; thorax w'hite, the tegulte with their terminal half 

 black, the patagia black at tii)s and with black spot behind them ; 

 abdomen yellow banded with black ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen w'hite, the fore legs suffused with dark brown, 

 the mid tibiae with black band at extremity, the abdomen with 

 blackish segmental bands. Fore wing silvery white ; the costal 

 area dark cupreous brown to the postmedial band ; a black-brown 



