3G0 NOCTUID.E. 



Fore wing olive-yellow tinged in parts with olivc-bi-own ; some 

 whitish at base and a whitish subbasal spot in the cell ; antemcdiiil 

 line white, rather diffused towards costa, oblique and waved to 

 submedian fold, mcurved at vein 1 ; a medial white patch in sub- 

 median interspace ; orbicular and reniform with olive-brown centres, 

 the former with white annidus, the latter defined on inner side bj 

 white and on outer by a white patch tinged with yellow at discal 

 fold ; postmedial Ime white, interrupted between veins 4 and 2 

 except for a minute white streak on vein 3, oblique and sinuous 

 to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and angled inwards at submedian 

 fold ; subterminal line represented by a series of white spots in the 

 interspaces, the spots above vein 6 and between veins 4 and 2 con- 

 nected with the tennmal series of white strife and with small yellow 

 lunules on them, the mark below vein 6 oblique and the spot below 

 vein 5 further from termen, two obliquely placed spots in sub- 

 median interspace ; cilia chequered olive-brown and white. Hind 

 wing pale purplish brown with a curved dark medial shade, the 

 tenninal area whitish ; a fine brownish terminal line ; cilia chequered 

 brownish ancl white ; the underside white irrorated with bro^\'n, the 

 terminal area slightly iiTorated, a curved brown postmedial shade. 

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Genus CALOCASIA. 



Type. 

 Calocasia, Ochs. Schmett. Bur. iv. p. G3 (1816), iion closer.; 



Hlibn. Verz. p. 201 (1827) co9-i/li. 



Demas, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 59 (1829) coryli. 



Proboscis aborted, miuute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond the 

 frons and fringed with long hair ; Frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennte 

 of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and hair-like scales and without distinct crests; tibise fringed with 

 long hair, tlie tarsal joints fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crennlate ; veins B and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked, 10 from 7, 8 giving off 9 to anastomose 

 with 7, 8 to form a minute areole, or abnormally 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from 

 cell, Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 

 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with red-brown... umhrosa. 

 E. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with red-brown, 



the terminal half grey coryli. 



C Fore wing with the basal half of inner area dark. 



a. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown flavicornis. 



h. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with black electa. 



D. Fore wing nearly uniiormly grey, the basal area not 

 darker. 



a. Fore wing with tlie postmedial line strongly incurved 



below the cell. 



«'. Fore wing white irrorated with brown propinqnilinm. 



i'. Fore wing fuscous grey infanta, 



b. Fore wing with the potsniedial line slightly incurved 



below the cell ....,,..,.. mus. 



