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ELYDNA; CLOSTEROMORPHA; NEOCALYMNIA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
irisiicta. 
nmorata. 
gulnare. 
laverna. 
malacha. 
graphico- 
mas. 
feniplaga. 
upreiplaga 
modesta. 
obconica. 
136. Genus: Elyclua Wkr. 
Proboscis developed, palpi long and slender, erect, with a long terminal joint; thorax purely clad with 
scales without any tufts, the abdomen being also tuftless and smoothly scaled; tibiae long-haired. Of this genus 
occurring in the palearctic and Indian regions (cf. Vol. Ill, p. 229, Vol. XI, p. 130) also some American represen¬ 
tatives are known the marking and colouring of which closely approximates the plainly marked species of Bagisara. 
E. tristieta Hmps. (44 b) has whitish forewings irrorated with red-brown and mixed with yellow in 
the median area, the veins striped red-brown, with brown transverse lines and small white spots at the cell-end 
instead of the reniform macula; the two upper radial branches are more intensely striped red-brown. Hindwing 
yellowish-white with small red-brown marginal lunae. Found in Arizona, Haiti, and Grenada. — amorata 
Barnes is the race from Arizona, without the red-brown marginal spots of the hindwing, the postmedian line 
being removed nearer to the distal margin. 
E. gulnare Streck. (44 c). Forewing silvery olive with lustrous silvery transverse lines and small golden 
spots at the apex and 2 above the anal angle; fringe silvery grey. Hindwing light lustrous olive, at the margin 
darkened. Pennsylvania, Illinois. 
E. laverna Drc. (44 c). Forewing olive-brownish with white transverse lines bordered with ferruginous 
yellow of a very characteristic course, the two distal ones ending in an acute angle at the uppermost quarter 
of the distal margin, without maculae. Hindwing yellowish-reddish brown. Mexico and Guatemala. 
E. malacha Drc. (44 c) is very similar to laverna , but of a softer, more powdered ground-colour, not 
so lustrous, the transverse lines not bordered with ferruginous yellow, but with brown, and with a fine brown 
discal streak on a whitish spot. Hindwing light golden yellow. Mexico. 
E. graphicomas Dyar (44 c) is on the forewing loam-coloured grey, strewn with .dark brown, with 
3 fine brown lines of a similar course as in the preceding species, the two distal ones connected by a streak from 
the cell-end to the margin; margin and fringes darker. Hindwing brown with 2 darker, similarly shaped lines 
as on the forewing. Mexico (Guerrero). 
137. Genus: dosteroinorplia Fldr. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus and chiefly separated by a secondary sexual distinction of 
the d'd; the hind tibiae are strongly expanded and contain a fold with a scent-scale tuft which can be turned 
inside out. The forewing forms a projection on the upper median branch, below it a slight excision. 
C. reniplaga Fldr. (44 c). Forewing of a bright red-brown colour, irrorated with grey, with whitish 
transverse lines, the posterior line of a very characteristic scalariform shape, above before it a large chocolate- 
brown costal-marginal spot. Hindwing red-brown. Guiana to Brazil. 
C. cupreiplaga Hmps. ( = reniplaga Hmps., rufifacta Dyar ) (44 c) is marked very much like reniplaga, 
but of a more lead-grey ground-colour irrorated with red-brown, with a very indistinct, blackish anterior 
transverse line, a large copper-brown apical spot, the posterior transverse line being also dark, not whitish. 
Hindwing brown with a copper-red gloss. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Guiana, Panama. 
C. modesta Btlr. (44 c) is likewise very similar, red-brown, the large apical spot chocolate-brown, 
below ending rounded off and at the costal margin intensely strewn with bluish-white; the anterior transverse 
line is red-brown, the posterior line bordered somewhat with whitish; the ring-macula is a white dot surrounded 
with brown, the reniform macula with a whitish ring; the subterminal line turns whitish towards the anal angle. 
Hindwing blackish-brown. Brazil. 
138. Genus: Jfeocalyiiinia Hmps. 
This genus only contains one species being externally quite similar to the preceding ones, but the palpi 
are much shorter, the abdomen shows a basal tuft, and the hind tibiae are not expanded, and like the first tarsal 
joint above and below hairy. 
N. obconica Drc. (44 cl) is exactly coloured and marked as Clost. reniplaga (44 c), but the posterior 
transverse line is submedianly not so much inwardly angled, and between the very indistinct maculae a distinct 
brown median line extends. Hindwing blackish-brown. Peru. 
