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PHY8ET0STEGE; ALEX; CONOLOPHIA. By L. B. Prottt. 
mu/ulifera. 
miranda. 
rufata. 
•palparia. 
obsolete. 
n iasica. 
oc]traced. 
aurantiata. 
continuaria. 
longipecten. 
helicolu 
C. angulifera Prout (4 a). Rather variable in colour, browner or greyer. Structure similar to that 
of allognota, but the hindwing of the <$ beneath has strong brown, partly red-mixed, hairy clothing on the 
distal part of the subcostal vein and the base of the 2nd subcostal and 1st radial branches. Snow Mountains, 
Dutch New Guinea. 
52. Genus: Physetostege Warr. 
Similar to Callipotnia but with the $ antenna bipectinate. the fovea enormously developed. Only 
one species. 
Ph. miranda Warr. (4 a). The name-typical form is always dark in colour, though sometimes more purplish, 
sometimes more shaded with red-brown. A black subcostal patch on the hindwing just proximal to the post¬ 
median line may be present or absent. Dutch and British New Guinea. — rufata Warr. is founded on a 
small, brighter reddish $ from Geraldton, N. Queensland, which will perhaps prove to represent a local race. 
53. Genus: Alex Walk. 
Face terminating in a projecting cone of scales. Palpus long, especially in the Antenna of $ bi¬ 
pectinate with slender branches, which terminate in single bristles. Hindtibia of G with hair-pencil. Forewing 
with the venation similar to that of Noreia. but the 2nd subcostal not anastomosing with the 3rd—4th. Hind¬ 
wing of the G remarkable for having the 2nd radial arising at a point with the 1st, or even very shortly 
stalked. Early stages unknown. A small genus of Indo-Australian moths. 
A. palparia Walk. (= nigrozonata Walk., rufolinearia Pagenst ., indica Warr.) (3e). Variable in colour, 
greyer- or more ochreous-brown, but never so bright ochreous as the other species, the cell-dot of the forewing 
generally smaller. — In ab. obsoleta Warr. the oblique dark line is entirely wanting or scarcely traceable. — 
palparia inhabits Hainan, N. India, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Bali, Borneo and Palawan. 
A. niasica Swinh. is unknown to me, perhaps a development of palparia ab. obsoleta. Greyish ochreous, 
uniformly covered with short brown striations, forewing with a pale brown mark at the upper end of the cell; 
both wings with indistinct traces of outwardly curved, pale brown, thin bands, antemedial and discal; a 
thin, marginal, pale brown line and ochreous cilia with grey tips. Underside similarly but more heavily 
marked. Nias, the type in the Swinhoe collection. 
A. ochracea Prout replaces palparia on Celebes, Sula and Batjan. Antennal pectinations of $ slightly 
longer. Ground-colour brighter ochreous, tips of fringe of hindwing not — as in palparia — appreciably 
darkened. 
A. aurantiata Warr. (= continuaria $ Walk., in err.) (3 e) is distinguishable at a glance by its brighter, 
almost gold-yellow colour and the large, round cell-spot of the forewing. Only known from Batjan and Obi. 
A. continuaria Walk. (3 e). This and the following species are characterized by having the costal 
area of the hindwing above clear orange-ochreous while the rest of the ground-colour is much darker and 
more reddish. 8. Moluccas to Sudest- and Rossel Islands, generally rather common. 
A. longipecten Warr., from the Solomon Islands, is very similar to the lightest, most brightly-coloured 
forms of continuaria but differs in having the branches of the $ antenna much longer. 
54. Genus: Clonolopls 1st Warr. 
Characters nearly as in Alex but with the antenna of the $ ciliate, not pectinate, the 2nd radial of 
the hindwing normally placed. Not a large genus, but ranging from Africa to Borneo. The Indo-Australian 
species show a simpler $ structure than the African and have been formed into a separate genus under the name- 
of Geoglad a Swinh. 
C. helicola Swinh. (3f). Very like a duller, greyer form of Alex palparia (3 e), but with the apex of 
the forewing rather more acutely produced. In addition there is generally — though not always -— a more 
or less strongly developed black spot near the anal angle of the forewing, which is then a further distinction 
from palparia. Best known from the Khasia Hills, Assam, but has also been taken in Sikkim and in West 
China. 
C. nigripuncta. Paler and rather rounder-winged than helicola, the transverse line less obliquely 
