CALLI0DE3. 



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the discoidal mark dark, and a double miuutely waved brown sub- 

 terminal line ; hind wing with brown discoidal lunule, waved 

 postmedial line, and double waved subterminal line. 



Hah. SiiXEGAL ; Abyssinia, Atbara (Gei-t\u'd), 1 c? • Exj^. 42 

 millim. 



7459. Calliodes pretiosissima. 



Calliodes pretiosissima, Hull. Ent. xxv. Siippl. p. 94 (1892); Pi*. U.S.Nat. 



Mus. xviii. p. 254, pi. 8. f. 2. 

 Calliodes rivuligera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 679. 



Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with fuscous, the tegulae 

 edged with fuscous ; palpi fuscous, oehreous on inner side and with 

 some pale scarlet at base ; pectus pale scarlet, the legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen grej'-brown tinged with fuscous and with fuscous lines on 

 basal segments, the ventral surface pale scarlet. Fore wing grey- 

 brown with a cupreous gloss except on costal area to beyond 

 middle ; the basal area with five waved blackish lines tinged with 

 silvery blue ; a large inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark with 



Fig. 68. — Calliodes pretiosissima, cf . 



grey-brown centre defined by black with yellow on its outer side 

 and white marks on outer side of tail and inner side of head which 

 is filled in by a black patch with three silvery-blue streaks on it, 

 the upper part of tail with silvery blue and black line in centre ; 

 postmedial lino double, black, excurved from costa round the dis- 

 coidal mark and incurved below it, the outer line waved and 

 tinged with silvery blue ; two series of black rather triangular 

 subterminal spots, the inner series tinged Avith silvery blue ; a 

 waved black line before termen and a terminal line. Hind winnr 



