. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CALLI0DE3. 345 the discoidal mark dark, and a double miuutely waved brown sub- terminal line ; hind wing with brown discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line, and double waved subterminal line. Hah. SiiXEGAL ; Abyssinia, Atbara (Gei-t\u'd), 1 c? • Exj^. 42 millim. 7459. Calliodes pretiosissima. Calliodes pretiosissima, Hull. Ent. xxv. Siippl. p. 94 (1892); Pi*. Mus. xviii. p. 254, pi. 8. f. 2. Calliodes rivuligera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 679. Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with fuscous, the tegulae edged with fusco
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CALLI0DE3. 345 the discoidal mark dark, and a double miuutely waved brown sub- terminal line ; hind wing with brown discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line, and double waved subterminal line. Hah. SiiXEGAL ; Abyssinia, Atbara (Gei-t\u'd), 1 c? • Exj^. 42 millim. 7459. Calliodes pretiosissima. Calliodes pretiosissima, Hull. Ent. xxv. Siippl. p. 94 (1892); Pi*. Mus. xviii. p. 254, pi. 8. f. 2. Calliodes rivuligera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 679. Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with fuscous, the tegulae edged with fuscous; palpi fuscous, oehreous on inner side and with some pale scarlet at base ; pectus pale scarlet, the legs grey-brown; abdomen grej'-brown tinged with fuscous and with fuscous lines on basal segments, the ventral surface pale scarlet. Fore wing grey- brown with a cupreous gloss except on costal area to beyond middle; the basal area with five waved blackish lines tinged with silvery blue ; a large inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark with. Fig. 68.— Calliodes pretiosissima, cf. grey-brown centre defined by black with yellow on its outer side and white marks on outer side of tail and inner side of head which is filled in by a black patch with three silvery-blue streaks on it, the upper part of tail with silvery blue and black line in centre; postmedial lino double, black, excurved from costa round the dis- coidal mark and incurved below it, the outer line waved and tinged with silvery blue ; two series of black rather triangular subterminal spots, the inner series tinged Avith silvery blue ; a waved black line before termen and a terminal line. Hind winnr. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-
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