LOPHOTEEGES. — CAILTEEGES. 93 



through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with pale and dark 

 brown, a black diseoidal lunule and postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type t cJ , $ in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 36- 

 40 millim. 



Genus CALLIEHaES. t, 



iype. 



CalUerges, Hiibii. Verz. p. 244 (1827) rmnosa. 



jLeYAocaMjpa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 108 (1852) ramosa. 



Proboscis fully developecT ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; Irons smooth, with ridges of hair at middle and 

 above ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male bipectinate, with moderate 

 branches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the 

 tegul^e produced to a dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; abdomen with large dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen non-crenulate ; 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; h obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



2188. Callierges ramosa. 



Bombyx rcmiosa, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 391, pi. 78. f. 3 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 247; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 228, pi. 114. f . 5 ; Frr. 



Nene Beitr. iii. pi. 24.5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 212. 

 Lithocampa ramosida, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 258 ; id. Eom. 



Mem. vi. p. 524, pi, 10. f. 3. 



Head and tegulse grey-white ; palpi brown at sides ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulae with black line near base and brown band near 

 tips ; thorax dark red-brown, the crests with some grey ; pectus 

 grey mixed with some brown ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests dark brown. 





Fig. 15. — Callierges ramcsa, (^ . \. 



Pore wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the submedian inter- 

 space chocolate-brown, extending into the cell before orbicular and 

 joined by an oblique chocolate band from apex ; a black streak 

 below basal half of cell ; an oblique subbasal streak above inner 

 margin and two streaks above middle of inner margin ; subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by slight oblique striae from costa : 

 orbicular and reniform very large and confluent except above, 

 extending to well below the cell, where they are defined by a 

 prominent curved black streak, slightly defined above ; postmedial 



