28 SCHULTZE. 



This species is very closely related to Elymnias malis, described by 

 Semper/ but as he says "The observation that neither the. presence nor 

 the size of a spot, but the arrangement of the individual spots, if present, 

 is very constant in the different species of the genera Elymnias," I feel 

 safe in describing this species as nevf. 



HETEROCERA. 



SBSIID.E. 



ADIXOA, Hamps., Fauna of Br. Ind. Moths (1892), 1, 198. 



Adixoa tomentosa sp. nov. (PI. I, figs. 2a male, 2b female, 2c 2d, cocoons with 

 pupal skin.) 



?, head dark, violet-brown, front steel-blue, white at the sides; palpi 

 white, sides blackish. Collar steel-blue, bordered in front by yellow. 

 Thorax black with a few brownish scales and a violet sheen; a yellow 

 stripe on the inner margin of tegulse. Metathorax yellow; abdomen 

 bluish-violet-black, rear margins of the second, fourth and anal segments 

 yellow, the last slightly lighter. Posterior margin of other segments 

 gray-brown, with a few oeliraceous scales. Below, on the first abdominal 

 segment, a white triangular spot; posterior margins white. Anal tuft 

 black, with gray and whitish hairs, below lighter. Legs below whitish. 

 Fore-wing, dark, iridescent, -^'iolet-brown with 1 hyaline streak in the 

 cell, 4 beyond it, and 1 below. Discocellular yellowish, below the cell 

 towards the base also somewhat yellowish. Cilia with a few ochraceous 

 scales. Hind-wing hyaline, outer border with the color of the fore-wing ; 

 external cilia the same, those of the inner margin lighter to white, disco- 

 cellular yellowish and brown. 



<S, palpi yellow, blackish at the sides, front white, yellowish-brown on 

 top. Posterior margin of second, fourth and anal segment yellowish. In 

 the male, the anal tuft below is yellowish-white. 



Length of wing, c? : 8.5 millimeters. 



Length of wing, ? : 11 millimeters. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: June, 1905. (W. Schultze, collector.) 



Type, No. 3345, in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



The caterpillars live in a vine, Paederia tomentosa Blume, where they 

 are easily found because of the swellings or nodules which they produce on 

 the stems of the plant. The caterpillar makes a blackish, parchment-like 

 cocoon compressed at both ends; from three to five cocoons are usually 

 found together in a single nodule. 



1 Semper. Reisen im Arch. d. Phil. Die Schmetterl. d. Phil. Inseln. (1892), 5, 6.3. 



