504 NOCTTTIDiE. 



3365. Conservula cinisigna. 



ConserviUa cinisigna, de Joan. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1906, p. 170, pi. 9. f. 2. 



Head and tegulfe bright rufous ; thorax ochreous suffused with 

 red-brown ; patagia with oblique dark line near tips ; metathoracic 

 crests bright rufous with dark tips ; pectus bright rufous ; legs 

 brown ; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface suffused with 

 red-brown. Pore wing piukish rufous with slight dark irroration, 

 the veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line double, dark, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1, a dark striga beyond it in cell ; an oblique 

 diffused band from median nervure before antemedial line to 

 inner margin, fuscous above and rufous towards inner margin; 

 antemedial line blackish, double, waved, somewhat oblique ; 

 claviform faintly defined by rufous at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform whitish tinged with rufous and with slight dark irroration 

 defined at sides by whitish and brown, both oblique quadrate, con- 

 fluent below, extending to below cell and forming a broad V-shaped 

 mark, the part below the cell fuscous grey defined below by 

 blackish ; postmedial line double, angled outwards below costa, 

 then very oblique and slightly sinuous, some minute white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, slightly 

 defined by rufous on inner side, very slightly excurved below vein 7, 

 then oblique ; cilia with a slight pale line at base. Hind wing 

 white, the veins, inner margin, and termen tinged with rufous ; 

 cilia rufous with yellowish line at base from apex to vein 2, then 

 whitish ; the underside with the costal area suffused with rufous, 

 slight rufous spots at angles of cell, traces of a postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 6, and traces of a subterminal line. 



Hah. TnA.ssv&.A-L{Cholmley), 1 6 ; Matikitius, Curcpipe (Tulloch), 

 1 cJ, 1 $. Ea^I^- 40 millim. 



Genus CALPIFORMIS, nov. 



Type, C. craushayi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to well beyond 

 fi-ons, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the ^rd sbort; frons smooth, 

 eyes large, round; antenna; of male biserrate ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with divided crests; tibiae fringed with 

 long hair ; abdomen with large dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the 

 costa somewhat excised beyond middle, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 

 curved and hardly crenulate ; reins 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; 6 obsolescent i'roni 

 inidtUe of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



3366. Calpiformis craushayi. 



Conservula craushayi, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 427 (1905). 



6 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with some white; abdomen 

 Avliilish tinged with rufous and with slight brown segmental lines. 



