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HYPODOXA. By L. B. Prout. 
tephrosia- 
ria. 
gracilis. 
malt is p ur- 
cata. 
cinerea. 
blanda. 
myriosticta 
crebusala. 
deteriorata. 
horridata. 
cetraria. 
muscosaria. 
wiiig beneath, which is wanting in chlora. Face as in Mora. The Palaearctic race has been figured in Vol. 4, 
pi. If. — tephrosiaria Guen. (5 e), from North India, is a little less dark and has the submarginal bands beneath 
narrower. — gracilis Prout. from Assam, is still lighter, thus more similar to chlora, but recognizable by the 
postmedian line, the cell-spots beneath and by the G genitalia. Forms from the Shan States and perhaps Tibet, 
seem to agree with those from Assam. 
F. multispurcata Prout. Smaller and darker than pseudoterpnaria, the face broadly black above, 
narrowly white below, the antemedian line much less curved, the postmedian less deeply dentate, the tufts 
of raised scales of the hindwing rudimentary. Perhaps rather near to lahayei Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 1 g). Founded 
on a $ from Rawal Pindi and one from Campbellpur, which remain the only known specimens. 
P. cinerea Warr. (= singularis Kershaw, unda-scripta T. P. Luc.), the type of the superfluous genus 
Skorpisthes T. P. Luc., differs from chlora candidaria in the shorter palpus, the unicolorous face, densely irrorated 
wings, very slender lines, with the antemedian of the forewing twice deeply curved outwards, etc. It is further 
remarkable for the resting posture. The moth sits on the stems of Melaleuca, with the forewings drawn forward 
so as nearly to meet in front of the head, the hindwings directed backwards so as to touch the abdomen. Queens¬ 
land and Victoria. 
P. blanda Pagenst. (= acutangula Warr.) (5f). Distinct from all the other species in the excessively 
long teeth of the antemedian line, the open cell-mark and the shape of the dark border of the forewing. Bismarck 
Archipelago. Also from New Guinea, the D’Entrecasteaux, Louisiades, Nissen Island (Solomons) and North 
Australia. 
12. Genus: HyfHxloxa Prout. 
An offshoot — according to Turner merely a section — of Pingasa. Hindwing less elongate at abdo¬ 
minal margin, with the cell rather less short; raised scales joresent on the fore- as well as the hindwing; forewing 
with the 1st subcostal anastomosing with the costal and with the 2nd subcostal (in Pingasa generally free). 
Coloration less pale, often very bright, especially beneath. Aedoeagus ,,pistillate”, at least in the emiliaria 
group (Burrows), in this differing from all the Pingasa genitalia yet examined. The only known larva is also 
distinctive, its protective resemblance being to the lichens among which it rests. The genus belongs almost 
exclusively to Australia, New Guinea and the islands eastward thereof, but I refer here one Malayan species. 
H. myriostida Turn. Unknown to me, but probably belonging to this genus. G unknown. $ palpus 
rather short. Wings green-whitish, with scattered dark scales. Forewing with cell-mark linear above, oval 
beneath; a broad dark band proximally to the antemedian line, containing some reddish scales; a similar, but 
interrupted band between the (incomplete) postmedian and the dentate white subterminal; fringe white. Hind¬ 
wing without the bands; the raised tuft white proximally, black distally. Underside washed with reddish; a 
broad terminal black band. Queensland and New South Wales. 
H. erebusata Walk. (= erebata Meyr.) (5 h). A rather large grey species, with the cell-spots large, 
especially beneath, on the upperside grey, with angular deep black marks on the discocellulars. Raised scales 
rather ill-developed. Underside rather striking; the forewing white around the deep-black cell-spot and with 
a curved, incomplete postmedian line, the hindwing white as far as the dark border; both wings with broad 
fuscous border, bearing white subterminal spots between the veins. Queensland and North Australia. 
H. deteriorata Walk. (= nigraria Feld.) (8 a). One of the smallest and darkest Hypodoxa. Cell- 
mark of forewing broad, though not cpiite so large as in erebusata. Underside somewhat as in erebusata but 
with much less large cell-spot on hindwing; both wings with the border (except at costa and hindmargin) much 
darker proximally to the subterminal spots than distally. —ab. horridata Walk, has the central area whiter above. 
— H. deteriorata is only known from New South Wales, perhaps confined to the neighbourhood of Sydney. 
H. cetraria Feld. (8 h) has been regarded, perhaps rightly, as a grey form of the following species, but the 
wings do not look so broad, the cell-mark of the forewing beneath is broader than in most muscosaria and the 
palpus is perhaps rather shorter. Felder’s type was from Moreton Bay, but I have seen the same form from 
New South Wales. 
H. muscosaria Guen. (= squamata Feld.) (8 b). Larger and broader winged than deteriorata , the 
palpus longer, the groundcolour moss-green; forewing with cell-mark narrower, especially on upperside, dark 
bands more conspicuous; distal bands beneath more uniformly darkened almost to the termen, with the sub- 
