440 



3279. Sidemia calidipes. 



Mamestra calidipes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 189 (1852). 



Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with slight black lateral bars ; tegulse 

 with slight black medial line ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the fringes on ventral surface of male pale rufous. 

 Fore wing greyish slightly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line 



indistinctly double, curved ; a slight black streak below the cell to 

 the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double, dentate, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, indistinctly defined by brown, the former 

 elongate elliptical, the latter with slight brown lunule in centre and 

 short black streak from it to postmedial line; an indistinct waved 

 medial line : postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and pro- 

 duced to black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a carved series of minute whitish lunules, 

 defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks; a terminal 

 series of small triangular black marks ; cilia fuscous intersected 

 with whitish, a punctiform whitish line at base and slight whitish 

 line at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous narrowing to tornus ; cilia yellowish white with 

 a slight dark line through them except towards tornus ; the under- 

 side with the costa irrorated with brown, a dark postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 6 and subterminal band diffused to termen at 

 apex. 



Hah. Bkazil, Bahia, Cachimbo (Ptijol), 1 cJ , Organ Mts., Tijuca 

 (Wagner), 2 $ ; Paiugcay, Sapucay {Foster), 4 $. Ewj). 44- 

 52 millim. 



3280. Sidemia hipparion 



m, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Ain., H 

 Head and thorax rufous ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi blaclcish 



Mamestra hipjxirioji, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Au)., Het. i. p. 273, pi. 26. f. 24 



(1889). 



