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ACERBAS; SABERA; PUDICITIA; ERIONOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
mantanga. 
anthea. 
iagiadoides. 
(Juris. 
martini. 
nitidifas- 
cia. 
caesina. 
barina. 
albifascia. 
pholus. 
the forewing being bag-shaped and large. In the $ also those in the cell and above the hind-margin are large. 
The spots on the hindwing above are distinct though small; in the A 3 or 4, in the $ 2. It approximates S. 
bononia from Singapore. The $ type occurs in Burma; whether the $$ from Java, which were bred, 
actually belong to it. is somewhat doubtful. 
S. mantanga Drc. is allied with inarime (169 i), but the diaphanous spots are yellow instead of white, 
the spot between 2 and 3 ju'olonged, and without cellular spots in the hinclwing above and beneath in cell 7. 
The under surface of the hindwing is not yellow but dark rusty brown, of the same colour are the costal margin 
and the distal-marginal area of the fore wing; likewise separated from bononia (169 h) by the different colouring 
beneath. British North Borneo. 
26. Genus: Acerbas Nic. 
A few similar species are combined here, being separated by anthea exhibiting a scent-spot which 
is absent in the other species. Besides easily recognisable by the white belt-like band crossing the centre of 
the hindwing parallel with the distal margin, being above sometimes dull, but beneath always distinct, and 
extending also across the abdominal dorsum. 
A. anthea Hew., from Malacca and Sumatra, differs from the figured Javanese form tagiadoides Fruhst. 
(= javanica Piep. <b Snell.) (168 g) in the white band of the hindwing despatching between the lower radial 
and the upper median branch a ray being beneath,purely white to the distal margin. 
A. duris Mob. (168 g, as duels), from the Philippines, which we figure from Mindoro, is extremely 
similar to anthea , but the band of the hindwing is regular, its distal edge smooth and without the continuation 
towards the margin of the wing. -— martini Dist. (168 g), from Borneo, is presumably only a form of it, 
the white band terminating above taperingly towards the apex of the hindwing, beneath in the S 
narrower. —- nitidifascia Elw. & Edw. (173 h) is larger and shows the band in the <$ hindwing above very dull, 
but it may nevertheless be only a seasonal or local form of the preceding, from Labuan, North Borneo, and 
Pulo Laut. 
27. Genus: $abera Swh. 
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Separated from the preceding genus, which it resembles somewhat on the whole, by the intensely 
white antennal club and by the white stripe of the hindwing not crossing the abdomen, but being effaced before 
the hind-margin. The $ hindwing is in the anal portion not so far extended as in the Acerbas-^ . But one species 
exhibiting in the habitus and colouring a remarkable resemblance to the South American Hesperid Vettius 
lafresnayi (Vol. V, pi. 189 c). 
S. caesina Hew. (169 a). Wings deep black warming into bluish, all four with a shortened median 
band. Beneath the hindwing is rusty red-brown in the distal portion, white in the proximal portion. From 
the typical form from Waigeu two local forms were separated, which however are scarcely different, barina 
Fruhst. (169 a), from German New Guinea, and albifascia Misk., from North Australia. I cannot find an essential 
difference that might justify a name of this species being not rare in the district of Cairns from December till 
April. Swinhoe mentions the species also from North Borneo, but there are no Borneo-specimens lying before me. 
28. Genus; INulicftia Nic. 
It contains but one large strong species with apically somewhat prolonged forewings which are almost 
still narrower than in thrax. Palpi likewise thick, but not projecting so much, otherwise scarcely different from 
the preceding genus. 
P. pholus Nic. (168 a). Above brown with yellow hyaline spots which are well recognisable from the 
figure. The exhibits on the submedian vein a narrow scent-spot of modified black scales along the basal 
second and third fifths. From Bhutan and the Khasia Hills. 
29. Genus; Erionota Mob. 
To Mabille’s statements in Vol. I we need only to add that this genus being composed of 3 species 
contains the largest Asiatic HeSperidae. They are nocturnal insects with a very long proboscis and thick, far- 
pro, cting palpi. Both sexes coloured the same, but the S3 have more tapering and narrower wings. 
