CALLIMOEPHA. 



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Palpi porrect and long. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 

 Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs. Pore wing rather long and 

 narrow ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 from angle ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 arising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell ; 4 from angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6 and 7 stalked or from 

 cell ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



1249. Callimorplia principalis, Koll. HiljeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 465, 

 pi. 20, tig. 2 ; Butl. 111. Het. vii, pi. 138, fig-. 3 (larva) ; C. $ 8. 

 no. 806. 

 Hypercompa flavicolor, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 397 ; C. 8f S. 

 no. 800. 



Head crimson ; palpi with a black spot on each joint ; a black 

 spot on frons and two at back of head ; collar black, edged with 

 crimson ; thorax orange, the tegulae and vertex striped with 

 metallic green : abdomen crimson above, pale yellow below, with 



Fig. 16. — Callimorpha principalis, $ . i. 



dorsal and lateral series of spots ; legs black, marked with crimson 

 and pale yellow. Fore wing metallic green, with numerous 

 yellow spots. Hind wing orange ; the veins streaked with black ; 

 a submarginal series of large black blotches ; centre of outer 

 margin black. 



A variety from Sikhim has the streaks on the nervures of hind 

 wing very broad and occupying most of the wing. 



Larva black, with three setiferous tubercles to each somite ; a 

 narrow orauge and yellow dorsal stripe whitish between the somites ; 

 a white subdorsal stripe ; a lateral band composed of white trans- 

 verse striae ; legs yellow. 



Hah. Kashmir ; N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Burma. Exp. 86 

 millim. 



1250. Callimorplia similis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 397 ; C. $ 8. 



no. 808. 



Differs from principalis in being paler. Fore wing with the 



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