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Fore tibiae without claw. 



a''. Abdomen smoothly sealed except the dorsal crests . . . . Homojitera. 



h^. Abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair Audea. 



&. Abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 



a?. Palpi with the third joint porrect Chalciope. 



b^. Palpi with the third joint upturned Ophiusa. 



Genus NYCTIPAO. 



Type. 

 Nyctipao, Hilbn, Verz. p. 271 (1827) ... crepuscularis. 

 Patula, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 176 (1852) ... macrops. 



Sect. I. [Patula). Male with the costal half of hindwing aborted to 

 form a fold turned over on the upper surface and containing a 

 large glandular patch of flocculent hair ; vein 4 running to the 

 functional apex, 5 from middle of discocellulars, 6 to the fold, 

 7, 8 very minute to near base of costa. 



(1) Nyctipao macrops, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. iii. p. 225 (1766). Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 164, f. 5. 



Patula loalheri, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvi. p. 406 (1875). 



Hah. West Africa, Gold Coast, Niger Eiver ; British East Africa, 

 Masailand, Kikuyu, Kilima'njaro ; German East Africa, Tan- 

 ganyika ; British Central Africa, Blantyre ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban 

 (Gueinzius, McKen) ; Madagascar ; India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Exy. 134-160 mill. 



GexNUS CALLIODES. 



Type. 

 CalUodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 193 (1852) ... apollina. 



Maxula, Wlk. xxxiii. 1096 (1865) unistrigata. 



Pyramista, Kirby, A.M.N.H. (6) xviii. p. 391 



(1896) capensis. 



Sect. I. Antennaa of male bipeetinate with moderate branches ending 

 in a long bristle. 



(1) Calliodes pyrula, Hoppfr. Mon. Kongl. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1857, 

 p. 422, id. Peter's Eeis. Mozamb. p. 435, pi. 28, ff. 10-11. 

 Sjnrama lucida, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 113, f. 8 (1874). 

 Hah. Mozambique ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson). Exv. 38-48 mill. 



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