. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 56 NOCTIXID^. *4358. Pyrrhia stilla. Pyrrhia stilla, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 45 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. â N. Am. p. 216. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Fore wing orange-red, the basal area bright orange without markings ; stigmata obsolete ; medial shade dark, strong, diffused on outer side, acutely angled outwards on median nervure; postmedial line dark, obsolete at costa, slightly incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1; sub- terminal line indistinct; cilia bright red. Hind wing pale yellow, blackish at bas
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 56 NOCTIXID^. *4358. Pyrrhia stilla. Pyrrhia stilla, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 45 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. â N. Am. p. 216. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Fore wing orange-red, the basal area bright orange without markings ; stigmata obsolete ; medial shade dark, strong, diffused on outer side, acutely angled outwards on median nervure; postmedial line dark, obsolete at costa, slightly incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1; sub- terminal line indistinct; cilia bright red. Hind wing pale yellow, blackish at base; a blackish discoidal lunule and broad diffused terminal band, the termen tinged with red ; the un^derside with faint discoidal mark, with reddish mark on costa above it, a diffused red postmedial band. Hah. , "W. States, Colorado, Idaho Springs, New Mexico. Eicp. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. Genus CALLCECIA, nov. Type, C. svinkoei. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short; frons with large corneous prominence with raised edges, the lower edge produced to a plate grooved in front, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenniB of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Foi-e wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 0 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1] from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4359. Callcecia svinlioei. A)itkreciaswuih(jei,'Bntl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 162; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 312. Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus and legs
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