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Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; abdomen brownish-grey. Fore- 

 wing grey strongly irrorated with black-brown ; an oblique black striga from 

 base of costa ; a short sinuous streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line 

 irregularly dentate, strongly angled outwards below the cell and conjoined to 

 the small diamond-shaped claviform stigma ; the orbicular greyish, narrow, 

 oblique, its lower end conjoined to the lunulate reniform, the two stigmata 

 defined below by a sinuous black streak ; the postmedial line excurved, indis- 

 tinct, dentate, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; a subterminal series of short black 

 streaks, those on veins 4'5 displaced inwarHs and the two above inner margin 

 longer and with a blackish mark between them ; cilia of both wings whitish 

 with fine dark line through them. Hindwing grey with darker streaks on the 

 vein. 



Allied to C. petrorhisa, Bork., from Europe, but darker and without the dark 

 lines on tegulse and patagia. 

 iTaSe to!;.— Tibet, Yatung (Hobson), Exp. 50 mill. Type—lnB. M. 

 1813. ACRONYCTA AN^DINA, insert (Syn.) Acronycta iria, Swinh., A. M. N. 

 H. (7):3,p. 113. 



1838a. Callopisteia noctuena, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax clothed with black, fascous, and red-brown scales, many 

 of them tipped with grey ; abdomen black-brown, Forewing fuscous tinged 

 with blue-grey, many of the scales having pale tips ; some reddish-brown 

 suffusion in parts, especially on medial inner area ; the basal area with traces 

 of waved black lines ; a grey antemedial line defined by black scales, waved 

 from inner margin to subcostal nervure, then curved downwards to median 

 nervure in end of cell, and up again to costa ; the reniform with grey outline ; 

 a postmedial fine black line defined by grey, strongly excurved from below 

 costa to vein 3, then incurved, with a double rufous streak defined by black 

 from it to subterminal line on vein 6 and whitish mark above and below 

 vein 4 ; a fine irregularly wavedrgrey subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 black lunules defined by grey. Hindwing fuscous-brown ; cilia fuscous with 

 grey tips. 



^a6ito<.— Cuddapah, Horsleykhonda, 3500' (W. H. Campbell). Exp. 30 

 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 18396. Callopisteia Haemonica, n. sp. 



^ . Head, thorax and abdomen variegated with pale-brown, madder, 

 black, and white scales ; palpi white towards extremity ; sides of frons and 

 tegulse with white stripes ; small fulvous tufts behind patagia ; abdomen 

 with rufous dorsal tuft. Forewing olive-brown suffused with purplish and 

 grey scales to beyond middle, and some purplish suffusion on inner area ; two 

 subbasal purple-brown spots with a striga beyond them ; three antemedial spots 

 with a spot on costa beyond them and a striga below the cell ; the orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct, grey with brown outline, with quadrate purple-brown 

 spot between them and spot on costa above it ; a grey band with purple- 

 brown edge beyond cell from below costa, curved to below end of cell, then 



