. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 56 NOCTCID^. ?4358. Pyrrhia stilla. Pyrrhia stilla, Grote, N. Am. Ent, i. p. 45 (1879); Smith, C;it. Noct. N. Am. p. lilC). Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Fore wing orange-red, the basal area bright orange -vrithout markings; stigmata obsolete ; medial shade dark, strong, difiused 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;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 56 NOCTCID^. ?4358. Pyrrhia stilla. Pyrrhia stilla, Grote, N. Am. Ent, i. p. 45 (1879); Smith, C;it. Noct. N. Am. p. lilC). Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Fore wing orange-red, the basal area bright orange -vrithout markings; stigmata obsolete ; medial shade dark, strong, difiused 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 terraen tinged with red ; the underside with faint discoidal mark, with reddish mark on costa above it, a difiused red postmedial band. Hah. , W. States, Colorado, Idaho Springs, New Mexico. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. Genus CALLffiCIA, nov. Type, C. svinhoei. Proboscis fiilly developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the ord 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 ; antenn« of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clotlied with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiie moderately fringed with bair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the ape.\ rounded, the termen CTenly curved and sligiitlvcrenulate ; vt-ins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; G from u])per angle ; "J from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; h obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4359. Callcecia svinhoei. Anthacia swinhcei, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 162 ; Hmpsn. IMoths Ind. ii. p. 312. Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus and legs yello
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