. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEOCALYMNIA. — ANDEOLYMNIA. 179 outer side, erect to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner margin ; orbicular with faint greyish anuulus, elliptical; a greyish discoidal bar with curved streak from it to subterminal line below the chocolate patch ; a sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line represented by a slight oblique pale line from submedian fold to inner margin near tornus ; subterminal line only defined by the terminal area being slightly greyer, angled outwards at vein 7 and. Fig. 62.—Neocalymnia ohconica, (^. \


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEOCALYMNIA. — ANDEOLYMNIA. 179 outer side, erect to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner margin ; orbicular with faint greyish anuulus, elliptical; a greyish discoidal bar with curved streak from it to subterminal line below the chocolate patch ; a sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line represented by a slight oblique pale line from submedian fold to inner margin near tornus ; subterminal line only defined by the terminal area being slightly greyer, angled outwards at vein 7 and. Fig. 62.—Neocalymnia ohconica, (^. \. incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing black-brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia greyish, dark at tips. Underside of both wings uniform black- brown. Hah. Peru, S. Domingo {Ockenden), typef S in Coll. Druce. Exp. 38 millim. Genus ANDROLYMNIA, nov. Type, A. emarginata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbing vertex of liead and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair jibove ; eyes large, round; antenna; of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed chiefly with'scales, the prothorax with ridge-like crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiaa moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing typically with the apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, the inner margin with antemedial lobe and scale-tooth; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing of male with tlie apex produced to a rounded lobe, the termen strongly excised iJelow it and not excurved at middle, the cell broad and the neuration rather dis


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