Calodesma uraneides (Butler, 1871)

Butler, A. G. (1871). Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera,
chiefly from the collection of Mr. Wilson Saunders. Annals and Magazine of
Natural History (4) 8: 282-290;
p. 285 (as Esthema uraneides). Translated from the Latin original.

3. Esthema Uraneides, n. sp.

Male. Wings hyaline, with the margins and veins black: fore wings with the
apical area black; with a decreasing, four-spotted, white hyaline subapical
band: body above ashy grey; thorax brownish, dotted with white; abdomen with a
whitish dorsal streak; beneath, thorax brownish, streaked with white; abdomen
dirty white.

Exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 5.

Hab. Cayenne. Coll. Saunders.

Resembles the female of Uraneis hyalina and Lymnas Jesse.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 433, pl. 61 c.

C. uraneides Btlr. (61 c) resembles the Erycinid Tmetoglene dodone G. & S. (Vol.
V, p. 654). In its size, wing-contours and scheme of marking like approximata,
but all the above-mentioned internerval stripes are bluish-white: in the
forewing two longitudinal stripes in the cell, two longer ones and a shorter one
behind the cell. Hindwing all white, except the veins, costal and distal margins
being black. Abdomen above with a white dorsal line, beneath all white. French
Guiana. It strikingly resembles the Erycinid Uraneis hyalina Btlr. (Vol. V, t.
138 e).

The approximata paragraph referred to (same work, p. 433, pl. 61 c):

C. approximata sp. n. Male similar to eucyanoides, abdomen beneath only with the
last three rings white. The forewing only with a subapical band the anterior
spots of which are larger than those behind. Traces of white longitudinal lines
above the tornus. Hindwing uni-coloured, with lighter internerval stripes which
terminate before the margin and are almost bluish-white there. Beneath these
stripes are more distinct. Type (male) in the Berlin Museum. Cayenne.