SUBFAMILY HADENINAE
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Callopistria callopistrioides Moore comb. n.  
Thalpophila callopistrioides
Moore, 1881, Proc. zool Soc. Lond., 1881:344. 
Data similis Warren, 1911, Novit. zool., 18: 145, syn. n.
Data rhabdochlaena Wileman & West, 1929,Novit. zool., 35:5, syn. n.


Callopistria
callopistrioides


Diagnosis.
See the previous species.

Taxonomic notes.
The taxa synonymised with callopistrioides are close in facies and genitalia, though rhabdochlaena from the Philippines has a distinctive white spot associated with the forewing reniform. A darker species, undescribed (slide 14305), flies with callopistrioides in the N.E. Himalaya; it has a more irregular postmedial.

Geographical range.
N.E. Himalaya, Burma, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference.
The few Bornean specimens seen are from lowland forest localities.

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