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H. sikkima Mr. (171b). Much smaller than the preceding species, but otherwise above of the same sikJcima. 
colouring and marking, except that there are 1 or 2 more, extremely fine hyaline dots before the apical part 
resp. below the costal margin of the forewing above, which may, however, also be absent in specimens from 
Borneo (Elwes). — The specimens without a cellular spot of the forewing, which Frithstorfer took in South 
Annam in February and which are somewhat smaller than Sikkim-specimens, he denominates kusala. — hazis kusala. 
Nic., from the Isle of Nias, and palawea Stgr., from Palawan, are likewise hardly different. In palawea the mark- hazis. 
ing beneath is only exhibited in very dull yellowish brightenings, wheras this marking is particularly distinct 
in hazis. The form palawea was regarded as a form of homolea, but according to Frithstorfer it belongs deci¬ 
dedly to sikkima. 
H. homolea Hew. (= sikkima Elio, nec Mr., perara Swh., rnarta Swh., wantona Swh.) (171 d). Typical homolea. 
homolea, from Singapore, is somewhat larger than the Javanese form veluvana Fruhst. (171c) in which the vcluvana. 
marking beneath, particularly in the <$, is much more indistinct, sometimes entirely flown out in the yellowish- 
grey ground. The 9 exhibits on the hindwing beneath a submarginal chain of white spots, which is often inter¬ 
rupted several times. Besides, homolea differs from sikkima also anatomically (the lateral horns of the tegu- 
men being straight, their apex being rather obliquely truncate with produced corners, whereas in sikkima they 
are falcate and pointed). — aucma Swh. are specimens from Sikkim, likewise larger than veluvana und beneath aucma. 
more distinctly marked. — Larva green with a black head marked with white; it lives on bamboo; the brown 
pupa in a brown web hidden between bamboo-leaves yielded the imago after 13 days. 
H. pelethronix Fruhst. (171 d). This species is very similar to some S3 of homolea to which it is cer- pelethronix. 
tainly allied. Here the dark spots of the hindwing beneath are surrounded by light, proximally open rings 
forming a chain. Sukabumi in Java. 
H. sulphurifera H. Schaff. (E = beturia Plotz) (171c) exhibits besides the yellowish-grey median band being sulphuri- 
narrow in the <$, very broad in the $, on the hindwing beneath, a submarginal row of light punctiform spots. ’ era ' 
The small discal spots of the forewing are on both sides elongate. Philippines. — Small specimens, as they are 
also before me from Mindanao (= bazilana Fruhst.) and such with smaller hyaline spots (= joloana Fruhst.), bazilana. 
described from Jolo, occur beside typical specimens, and may therefore be regarded as aberrative forms, but i° loana - 
not as races. Much rather beluria Hew. (171 d), from Celebes, might be regarded as a race, exhibiting shorter beturia. 
hyaline spots in the forewing and light longitudinal spots in the centre of the hindwing, whereas in sulphu¬ 
rifera only a dull lighter nebulous shadow is to be seen, The imagines are not common. 
H. hieron Nic. (171 e). $: above greyish-brown, without a scent-spot, and without spots of the fore- hieron. 
wing or with but faint traces of them. Under surface pale brownish grey, densely and irregularly strewn with 
whitish-grey scales exhibiting on the forewing a lighter submarginal band and on the hindwing a median band; 
in the cells 2 and 3 of the forewing there is one powdered whitish-grey spot each. Discovered by Dr. Martin 
in Bekanchou in Sumatra. 
H. brunnea Mr. (173 g). Upper surface of the $ dark wine-brown, forewing with 4 minute hyaline spots; brunnea .. 
1 crescent if orm spot in cell 2, a much smaller and rounder one in cell 3, a punctiform one in cell 6, and a 
very small one in 7. Under surface light wine-brown, forewing in the disc darker, before the margin of the 
forewing an indistinct light macular band, from the costa to vein 3, and traces of a small whitish spot, near 
the apical quarter of the upper cell-angle. In the hindwing the median band and submarginal band are as in 
homolea, but the former band extends more to a dot next to the apex than directly to it as in homolea. Fringes 
of the forewing dark grey, indistinctly speckled; $ similar to the <$, but with a feeble cellular spot in the fore¬ 
wing. Ceylon; apparently very rare. We copy a figure from Moore, although his figure is stated by Elwes 
and Edwards to be inaccurate. Not to be mistaken for Parnara brunnea (173 a). 
H. fusca Elw. Here the hindwing beneath is brown strewn with grey, which irroration is condensed fusca. 
discallv and subterminally, so that indistinct lighter transverse bands are formed. The apex of the tegumen, 
on being looked at from above, shows 2 broad falciformly bent teeth. Burmah. 
H. sitala Nic. (171 e), from Utacamund in the Nilgiris, almost looks like a Parnara guttata , with effaced sitala. 
hyaline spots of the hindwing above, and but faint traces of them beneath, hardly recognisable in much flown 
specimens. At once discernible by the whitish-yellow fringes crossed in the forewing by the dark veins. 
H. submacula Leech (Vol. I. pi. 89 e) hardly occurs typically in the palearctic region, or at its southern 
frontier at most; Matsumura, however, described a lepidopteron from Formosa: horishana Mats. (= ara horishana. 
Fruhst .) which only represents a local race of submacula. The light spot below the centre of the cell is absent 
above in the forewing, and the hindwing only exhibits the two discal spots, not the spot below the costa. Beneath 
the two submarginal spots behind the cell-end of the hindwing are long extended proximad, and the ray through 
the cell is not divided into spots. Not common. 
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