454 Three new Catocalinae 



3. Calliodes appollina Gn. 



" Spec. Gen. Lep.," vii, 193 (1852) (Senegal) (<?). 

 ? , 38—40 mm. 



Antenna serrate, each serration bearing a long curved bristle and 

 a fasciculate tuft of cilia. 



Wings with the lines brownish, scarcely tinged with " metallic 

 violet." 



Differs in the following points from Hampson's description of 

 appollina, probably taken from the Abyssinian specimen in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



Wings hardly " suffused with reddish-brown." Fore wing with 

 the costa scarcely darkened except on basal and apical fourths. Termen 

 of both wings and medial part of costa of fore wing deeper ochraceous 

 than the ground-colour. Hind wing with the subterminal lines more 

 or less broken into spots. Wings beneath with the termen ochraceous, 

 not "red-brown." Fore wing with a more or less well-developed post- 

 medial line, one specimen also showing three dark spots at the head 

 of inverted comma mark. 



Senegal : Kaolack, two $ ? . 



The smaller specimen, which bears the dark comma-head spots 

 beneath, has the antenna almost without bristles and with but little 

 ciliation ; but this appears to be due to damage, the form of the shaft 

 agreeing with that of the other specimen, which is in much fresher 

 condition. 



This $ does not appear to have been previously described. 



4. Calliodes barnsi sp. nov. 



Figured in " Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," T. A. 

 Barns, pi. lxxxi, fig. 10, 1923. 



? , 47 mm. 



Antenna nearly as in the $ of C. pretiosissima Holl. (Ent., xxv, 

 Supp., p. 94 [1892] [E. Africa]), the pectinations (erroneously called 

 by Hampson " serrations ") slightly shorter but much more strongly 

 developed than in the ? of appollina Gn., which in other respects 

 this species most nearly resembles. 



Head, thorax, abdomen and legs nearly as in appollina. 



Fore wing much as in appollina, but the yellowish-white tone of 

 ground-colour a little deeper ; the subterminal white line tinged with 



