Publ. 28. ill. 1921. THAUMATOGRAPHE; ABRAXAPH ANTES; DORATOPTERA. By L. B. Prout. 2!) 
third the length of the wing). In colour perhaps nearest to the redder <$<$ of aequilinearia but less glossy, 
strongly sprinkled with black, especially in the distal area; both wings with distinct cell-dot, a fine grey median 
line (very weak on the forewing) and oblique yellow, distally dark-edged postmedian. Penang, Nias, Borneo. 
S. holzi Page?ist. (= compacta Warr.). Of this form, from Amboina, I only know Warren’s type, holzi. 
which clearly represents a local race, if not a mere aberration, of the better-known New Guinea subfulvida. 
Rather smaller and lighter and still more uniform in colour than the New Guinea a $ from the mountains 
of Central Ceram is much like a small, poorly-marked subfulvida. — subfulvida Warr. ($ = subvirgata Prout) subfulvida. 
(2 g). Rather smaller than vultuaria, the $ perhaps still broader-winged, though with less arched costal margin. 
Variable, but always with stronger red or purple shades than vultuaria ; cell-dots wanting; a yellow or reddish 
spot generally present just beyond the discocellulars of the hindwing; postmedian line sometimes strong and 
black, sometimes yellow, sometimes scarcely indicated except by black or white vein-dots. Sexual dimorphism 
strong, the $$ lighter and less variegated than the 9$, which always have a well-developed white costal mark 
near the apex. Widely distributed in New-Guinea and its satellite islands. —- (J-ab. flaviplaga Prout has flaviplaga. 
on the distal part of the forewing an irregular, extended patch of light yellow, nearly reaching the cell, the 
costa and the distal margin, but narrower posteriorly and not approaching the hindmargin. 
S. derufata Warr. ( = olivata Warr.) (2 f) differs from holzi subfulvida in having the postmedian line derujata. 
still more oblique, reaching the abdominal margin of the hindwing nearer the base; it is also rather more glossy, 
the colouring lighter proximally of the postmedian line than distally, with the darker distal colouring reap¬ 
pearing at the costal margin and base of the forewing. Otherwise the <$ — which has not hitherto been descri¬ 
bed — is remarkably like some $ forms of subfulvida, though without the yellow postcellular spot of the hind¬ 
wing or the distal blotches. $ much duller, grey-brown, with the postcellular spot of the hindwing almost 
white. In the mountains of Dutch and British New Guinea. 
40. Genus: Tliaiimatograplie Warr. 
A rather isolated genus. The long and narrow forewing and short hindwing slightly recall some of the 
Biston group. Tongue wanting. Antenna strongly bipectinate in both sexes. Breast and femora strongly hairy. 
Hindtibia with 4 short spurs. Forewing with 1st subcostal free, 2nd—5tli stalked. Hindwing with 2nd 
radial as in Sarcinodes. Only one species known. 
Th. singulars Warr. (2g). Quite distinct from every other known species. The remarkable course of the singularis. 
postmedian line of the hindwing and the sharp contrast between the dark colouring in front of it and the 
whitish — in the $ partly reddish-clouded — area behind it is particularly striking. Dutch and British New 
Guinea. 
41. Genus: Abraxapliaates Swinh. 
A rather isolated genus, named from its superficial resemblance to a giant Abraxas. Palpus long, stri¬ 
kingly rough-scaled. Antenna in both sexes unipectinate. Hindtibia with all spurs. Abdomen of S long and 
slender. Frenulum rudimentary, the retinaculum wanting. Forewing with cell long, 1st and 2nd subcostals 
stalked, 1st median remote from 3rd radial. Hindwing produced to a point at end of 2nd subcostal. Only 
one species. 
A. perampla Swinh. (2 g). Recognizable at once by the bright ochreous palpus and by the pattern perampla. 
of the wings, with their spotted margins and irregular central stripes. Local; Assam to Canton. Tutt (Entom. 
Record, Vol. 12, p. 13) records a specimen as having been taken off Cochin China, 100 miles from land, in 
June 1894 (as “ Abraxas phantes ”!). 
42. Genus: Doratopiera Hmps. 
Of this still more remarkable genus only one specimen is known, described as a but really a $. 
Its hindwing is not unlike that of Abraxaphantes in shape, but the forewing has its apical part so greatly nar¬ 
rowed and produced and the anal angle so completely rounded off as to look like a malformation; the 1st sub¬ 
costal does not arise from the 2nd but from the cell, and anastomoses with the costal. Face with a rounded 
prominence, vertex with a large conical tuft. Palpus, breast and femora hairy. Antenna almost simple. Hind¬ 
wing with 2nd radial so weak that the genus might even be excluded from the present subfamily. 
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