HYPODOXA. By L. B. Prout. 
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terminal spots of the forewing smaller, the ground-colour of this wing projecting sharply into the border in 
the middle.-—Larva red, lichen-like, found on fences. Queensland to Victoria. Felder’s type of squamata was 
said to he from Tasmania. 
H. multidentata Prout (8 c). Colouring of upperside nearly as in emiliaria (8 d), but with the raised multidenta- 
scaling of hindwing more reddish. Very distinct in the highly dentate antemedian line and in the underside, 
which more resembles that of the preceding group, being greyish, with large cell-marks and broad dark distal 
bands which almost reach the termen; no distinct pale spots in the distal band, excepting one at the costal 
margin of the forewing. Malay Peninsula. Also known from Borneo. 
H. corrosa Warr. (4 b) is nearly related to leprosa., but much redder in the central area of the forewing corrosa. 
especially in the <$, the antemedian line less strongly (in the $ not) sinuous. On the underside the base of the 
forewing and an extended proximal area of the hindwing — in the G reaching to the broad black border — are 
bright orange-yellow. Owen Stanley Range (type) and the mountains of Dutch New Guinea. 
H. leprosa has been separated into two races. -— leprosa Warr. (8 c), from the Owen Stanley Range, leprosa. 
British New Guinea, is predominantly green, though variegated, the $ strongly marked, with the tufts of 
the hindwing black, the central area of that wing anteriorly pinkish. — incarnata Prout, from the mountains incarnata. 
of Dutch New Guinea, has a larger admixture of pink, the $, indeed, entirely losing the green colouring. In 
both races the underside has broad blackish distal bands (not sharply defined distally), the proximal part of 
forewing more or less suffused with pink, that of hindwing with orange; but the pink admixture is brighter 
in incarnata. In the Weyland Mountains some examples approximate closely to l. leprosa. 
H. lichenosa Warr. (8 c) is similar above to leprosa, though with less dark dusting, the $ with the Uchcnosa. 
central area of the forewing much mixed with white. Beneath, both wings are dull white, distally greenish; 
base and abdominal margin of hindwing yellow. A submarginal black band and on the forewing a black cell- 
spot, much as in leprosa. British New Guinea and the north coastal ranges of Dutch New Guinea. — rufomixta rufomixla. 
Prout, founded on a pair from Mount Goliath, will perhaps prove a mere aberration. Both wings more mixed 
with red above; hindwing beneath without the yellow. 
H. ruptilinea Prout (8 c). Recognizable by its more elongate forewing, differently shaped post- ruptilinea. 
median line, more strongly developed and characteristally broken subterminal, long and regular tuft of raised 
scales on hindwing, etc. J predominantly green, $ much more variegated. Underside proximally orange-yellow, 
the broad black border of the forewing not traversed by whitish spots. Third joint of palpus rather shorter 
than in most of the species. Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea. 
H. viridiconia Warr. (§ = interrupta Warr.) (8 c) has longer 3rd joint of the palpus, longer hind- viridicoma. 
wing, more emiliaria- like underside, etc., and has a green central area in the $. Warren’s G type was from 
Tulagi Island (off- Ysabel, wrongly printed ,,Tugela“) and his $ — formerly supposed to be a separate race — 
from Florida Island. 
H. multicolor Warr. ($ = circum,septa Prout) (8 c). Similar to viridicoma but paler, slightly multicolor. 
shorter-winged, with the lines finer, in general more sharply expressed, at least anteriorly. On the underside 
the black cell-spot of the hindwing is very slight, generally altogether wanting, whereas in viridicoma it is strongly 
developed on both wings. Louisiades. The form from New Guinea, which I named circumsepta, may prove 
a separable race. 
fulgurea. 
H. emiliaria is an extremely variable species and the variation seems to be, at least in part, geo¬ 
graphical, but it has never yet been taken in long series. The wing-margins are slightly more crenulate than 
in the two preceding species, unless perhaps in the form purpurissata, which may prove a separate species. 
Both lines are rather sharply developed, black or dark-grey, and the postmedian takes a different course from 
that of multicolor. — fulgurea Prout (4 b) is rather large, especially in the $, and is heavily shaded with black, 
chiefly in the distal area, in consequence with the deeply dentate subterminal line showing very clearly. Hindwing 
beneath without cell-spot. Snow Montains and the northern ranges of Dutch New Guinea and again in the 
Hydrographer Mountains of British New Guinea. — basinigra Warr. has the basal area darker, or dark-banded, basinigra. 
the median area paler. Hindwing beneath with cell-spot. Owen Stanley Range. — emiliaria Guen. (= aurantiacea emiliaria. 
T. P.Luc., assidens T. P.Luc.) (8d) is rather smaller than basinigra. Upperside similar, but mixed with green; 
hindwing beneath without cell-spot. Queensland and probably New South Wales. — purpurissata T. P. Luc. 
is predominantly purplish, the hindwing in posterior half shaded with black-grey, beneath with a cellspot. 
The series before one is from Cedar Bay, N. Queensland. —- subleprosa Prout , from Rossel Island, is perhaps subleprosa. 
not separable from some very strongly variegated aberrations of emiliaria-, upperside recalling leprosa, $ (but 
not <$) with a black cell-dot on hindwing beneath. — In aignanensis Prout . from St. Aignan and Sudest, the 
green is largely replaced by reddish and the have the median area largely black. — purpurifera Warr. (= ? 
talagi Swinh.), from Tulagi and Ysabel, has the $ more greenish, the $ more variegated with purplish, the 
hindwing beneath with a large black cell-spot. 
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