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CALAMISTI8. By W. Warren. 
apex, broader towards inner margin, with dark brown suffusion on each side; a row of terminal black dots; 
fringe ochreous tipped with brown; hindwing ochreous suffused with brown, paler towards base and termen. 
A small species, described from a single $ from Burma. 
grisescens. P. grisescens Hmps. (20 g). Forewing brownish grey with some fuscous irroration; the cell and area 
immediately below it suffused with fuscous; the terminal area fuscous, running to a point at apex; inner line 
blackish, obscure, bent inwards to costa, excurved above and below median vein; outer line also obscure, blackish, 
oblique from costa, then with a series of black points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then inwardly 
oblique; a terminal row of small black lunules defined on inner side by ochreous lunules; reniform stigma 
a small ochreous lunule edged with black; a waved dark median shade distinct only below middle; hindwing 
grey suffused with fuscous. Described from a single $ from Sikkim. 
interrogans. P. interrogans Walk. (20 h). Forewing pale ochreous with a rufous flush, dusted with dark fuscous; a 
diffuse brown shade from base along subcostal vein to apex and another along median vein and vein 5 to termen; 
orbicular stigma a small black spot ringed with ochreous; reniform an ill-defined ochreous bar, slightly angled 
inwards on median vein, with a dark line on it near inner edge; traces of an outer line bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, followed by slight dark streaks on the veins; subterminal 
line pale, indistinct, indented on the folds; black points on termen; hindwing pale ochreous suffused with brown. 
Described from a pair of unknown locality; placed here provisionally only. 
69. Genus: C'alamistis Hmps. 
Tongue aborted, minute; Irons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment fringed with long hair 
in front, the third short; thorax long-haired; the crests as in Phragmatiphila; neuration normal. Type C. fusca 
Hmps. from Africa. 
Sect. I. Ant e n n a e of bipectin ate with moderate branches to ape x. 
pracpallcns. C. praepallens Hmps. (20 h). Forewing grey brown, the costal half paler; a diffuse pale rufous streak 
in cell fold from middle of cell to subterminal line; a black streak below basal half of cell; orbicidar stigma a black 
dot above median vein; reniform a small fuscous spot at lower angle of cell, slightly defined by white, 
its upper part with slight black dots; a somewhat wedge-shaped black subterminal spot on cell fold, with 
traces of black dots on the veins from it to inner margin; a terminal row of slight black striae; hinclwing white 
with a fine dark terminal line. Travancore, S. India. 
Sect. II. Antennae of ciliated only. 
microstida. C. microsticta Hmps. (20 b). Forewing ochreous; the cell and costal area to near apex tinged with 
purplish pink and irrorated with dark brown; inner line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa, 
then oblique to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 to inner margin; orbicular and reniform 
stigmata very small, defined by black, the former ochreous, oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter with dark 
centre and ochreous annulus; a blackish streak between them in cell; outer line rather indistinct, with a black 
point on costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, the teeth produced to black points on veins, oblique 
below vein 4; subterminal line obsolete above, oblique from vein 6 to inner margin; ochreous defined by reddish 
brown on inner side, and with dark brown, rufous, and grey irroration beyond it; a terminal series of small 
black lunules; fringe at base fulvous yellow, chequered ochreous and black at tips; hindwing ochreous uniformly 
suffused with fuscous; a slight dark terminal line; fringe ochreous. Described from a single <$ from Sikkim. 
submargi- C. submarginalis Hmps. (20 h). Forewing ochreous whitish, suffused and irrorated with red-brown; 
nalis. t} le basi-costal area, the median area obliquely from costa to submedian fold, and the terminal area except 
at apex suffused with dark brown; traces of a blackish subbasal line to submedian fold and of an inner line ob¬ 
lique to fold; orbicular and reniform stigmata very small, partially black-edged; outer line indistinct, bent 
outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4; subterminal line oblique, ochreous white, defined 
internally by dark brown, starting from below vein 7; small terminal black lunules; fringe chequered ochreous 
and dark brown; hindwing grey with strong brown suffusion; fringe pale with a brown middle line. Nil- 
giri Hills, Madras; described from a single $. 
