THE GENUS CALLICTITA (LEPIDOPTERA, 
LYCH3NHUE) 1 
By Robert G. W ind 
Berkeley, California 
and 
Harry K. Clench 
C amb ridge, Ma s s acbns e tt s 
In 1908 Bethune-Baker erected tlie genus Callictita for 
a single and very distinct new species, cyara, from the 
Angabunga River, British New Guinea. Eight years 
later Joicey and Talbot extended the range of this species 
by adding a new subspecies, albiplaga, from the Wandam- 
men Mts. of Dutch New Guinea. Peculiarly, in Seitz’ 
addenda to Volume 9 of the Macrolepidoptera of the 
World (1927) appears this same name albiplaga, but 
credited to Frulistorfer, i.l., with no mention of Joicey 
and Talbot whatsoever. Seitz figured the form, but gave 
no locality. His illustration looks suspiciously similar 
to that of Joicey and Talbot. 
Frulistorfer in Seitz (loc. cit. infr.) gives the following 
diagnosis of the genus: “Structure of the fore wings dif- 
ferent from Cast alius by the first subcostal immediately 
disappearing in the costal and crossing it. The subcostal 
fork is shorter, its branches more closely together than 
in Cast alius or Tar aba. Fore wing exhibits a roundish, 
large, discal black androconial area. Clasping organs 
highly specialized, cedeagus canaliculate as in Upolampes. 
Uncus remarkably feeble, short, narrow, but with very 
long apophysis. Valve trumpet-like, distally wide open, 
with a sharp dorsal tooth, everywhere extremely long- 
haired. ’ ’ 
Callictita Bethune-Baker 
Bethune-Baker, 1908, P.Z.S., 1908: 118. Genotype (by 
monotypy), Callictita cyara B.-B. 
Frulistorfer, 1923, [in] Seitz, Macrolep. World, 9 : 891. 
1 Published by a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Har- 
vard College. 
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