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Genus KALLIMA. 



KaJUma, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. plate 52 (1849) ; AVestwood, id. p. 324 (1850). Felder, Neues 

 Lep. p. 14 (1861). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 36 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 429 (1886). 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 257 (1886). Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. 

 p. 128 (1887). Ivirby, Aliens Nat. Hist. Butt, i. p. 105 (1894). 



Callima, Herr. Schsetfer, Lep. Exot. ii. p. 54 (1858). 



Imago. — Wings large, very broad and sliort ; apex of forewing in male acutely 

 pointed, in female produced to a lengthened point. Male. Forevmig triangular ; costa 

 much arched and slightly excavated at the base ; apex produced to an acute point ; 

 exterior margin long and convexly-angulated hindward, almost even ; posterior 

 margin long, slightly recurved, the angle obtuse ; costal vein extending to three- 

 fifths of the margin ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the 

 cell, third branch at about one-fourth beyond the cell and extending to apex, fourth 

 and fifth at three-fourths and ending below the apex ; cell short, very broad ; upper 

 discocellular extremely short and outwardly oblique ; middle discocellular rather 

 short, inwardly-oblique and slightly concave ; lower discocellular also inwardly- 

 oblique and slightly curved, the radials from their angles ; median veiulets very wide 

 apart, upper median arched from its base, middle median emitted immediately before 

 lower end of cell ; submedian recurved. .ffiracZiyinr; triangular, lengthened hindward 

 and produced into a narrow tail at end of submediau vein ; anterior margin broadly 

 lobate at the base, apex obtuse ; exterior margin obliquely-convex, almost even ; 

 abdominal margin very long and excavated hindward from end of internal vein to 

 tip of tail ; precostal vein straight and strongly bifid near its end ; costal vein well 

 arched and extending to the apex ; upper and lower discocellular outwardly-oblique 

 and curved ; cell closed ; middle median veinlet emitted immediately before lower 

 end of cell ; abdominal area densely hairy. Body very robust ; head and thorax 

 densely clothed with lax scaly hairs ; base of abdomen clothed with long woolly 

 hairs ; tip of abdomen compactly scaled ; palpi large, porrect, pointed at apex, 

 flattened beneath, densely scaly ; forelegs of male slender, tibige and tarsi densely 

 but compactly clothed with moderately short hairs; forelegs oi female long, slender, 

 scaly, dilated at the tip, the inside of which is rounded off and armed beneath with 

 four pairs of short spines indicating the joints at the extremity, the terminal joint 

 being minute and simple ; autennse with a gradually-formed sleuder club ; eyes 

 naked, large. 



Egg. — [Inachus.] " Not particularly large ; round ; ribbed vertically." 



Larva. — Adult. " Head armed with two long branched-spines. Segments 

 covered with rather long hairs ; armed with eleven rows of branched-spines." 



Pupa. — " Simple. Thorax slightly keeled ; abdomen with small dorsal conical 

 points." (From G. C. Dudgeon's Note.) 



