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Genus CALYPTIS. 



Type. 



Cali/pHs, Quen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852) iter 



Proboscis fully develo])ecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd mcjderate ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above, in male very narrow, the large round eyes being closely approximated 

 in front ; antenna; of male almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and hair- 

 like scales and without crests ; tibire modei'ately fringed Avilh hair, the fore 

 and hind tibiie not spined ; abdomen witli dorsal crests on basal segments. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly curved and 

 not crenulute ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half the lengtli of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully 

 developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen slightly angled at vein 4. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved from below 



vein (5 to vein 3, then excuived to vein 1 idonaa. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and waved 



from below vein 6 to vein 1 semiouprea.- 



7920. Calyptis idonea. 



Isoctua idonea, StoH, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 43, pi. 311. f. A (1780) ; Feld. 

 Eels. Nov. pi. 110. f. 30. 



Head, tegulse, base of patagia obliquelj'', and prothorax red-brown, 

 the rest of thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; pectus, legs, and 



abdomen greyish brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing 

 pale purplish grey, a conical patch of golden cupreous suffusion 



