HERCOLOXIA; COMIBAENA. By L. B. Prout. 
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A. pluixopa Meyr. (= albipunctata Warr.) Strigulation mostly rather elongate, partly confluent, phrixopa. 
cell-dots generally moderately large, forewing with a noticeable dark dash at apex. — Larva brown, rugose, 
clothed with fragments of leaf as in Comibaena. No other markings. Sambawa (type), Sumba, Java and Adenara. 
Perhapos also on Burn. 
A. argosticfa Turn. (12 d). On an average smaller, with the abdominal margin of the hindwing relatively argostida. 
less elongate, the strigulation shorter, in part punctiform; apical dash less developed. Queensland. 
57. Genus: Hercoloxia Prout. 
Like Comibaeyia but without proximal spurs, hair-pencil or terminal process on the hmdtibia. On the 
analogy of Rhomborista — Spaniocentra, it might be treated as a section of Comibaeyia. 
H. chlorochromodes Prout. Extremely like a large of Coynibaena tenera (11 d). Costal margin of forewing chlorochro- 
less white. Lines equally weak, but the postmedian less punctiform, on the forewing forming a deep inward 
curve between the 2nd median and the hindmargin. Dradjad, Preanger, W. Java. 
58. Genus: Comihaena Hb. 
This well-known genus has already been discussed in Vol. 4, p. 19. The most outstanding characters 
are the long pectinations of the <J antenna, the longhaired 2nd joint of the palpus, dilated hindtibia of the <$, 
with hair-pencil and more or less long terminal process and generally the bright green coloration, often with 
red terminal markings. Distributed in the Old-World regions, reaching Western Europe, Japan, the Cape of 
Good Hope and Fiji. 
C. tenera Warr. (11 d). Paler green and more thinly scaled than the more typical Coynibaena, the tenera. 
discocellulars somewhat suggesting those of Argyrocosma-, in all respects transitional towards Hercoloxia. 
Described from the Khasis, its best-known habitat, but it has also been taken at Darjiling. 
C. subhyalina Warr. (= inductaria a.uctt., nec Guen.) (11 d). The largest species of the group with subhyalina. 
spotted (white, red-ringed) markings and structurally distinct from the others in that the 3rd discocellular 
is highly oblique, resulting in a wide separation of the 1st median from the 3rd radial. N. India, from the 
Punjab to the Nagas. 
C. albicatena Warr. (12 d). Rather more opaque-winged than subhyalina, the central spots smaller, albicatena. 
but more numerous. Both wings with the 1st median arising from the hind angle of the cell, or even stalked 
with the 3rd radial. Khasis. Recently received from Selangor. 
C. dialitha West. (11 d) differs from albicatena in having all the markings reduced, especially those dialitha. 
of the costal and distal margins and of the abdomen; the white terminal spots of the hindwing show no expansion 
at the 3rd radial and at anal angle. Philippines: Mindanao and Luzon. 
C. inductaria Guen. (= smaragdus Hmpsn.) (12 d). Again smaller, combining the structure of albicatena inductaria. 
with more nearly the markings of subhyalina but differing from both in that the 1st subcostal of the forewing 
is stalked with the others. Described from Sarawak, but very generally distributed from India and Ceylon 
to Formosa and to Tenimber. — consobrina Warr., from Queensland, has the dark terminal line obsolete, except consobrina. 
from the costa to the 1st radial, and some other slight differences in the relative sizes of the markings. The 
forms from British New Guinea, Goodenough and Rossel Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago stand at present 
with the Queensland. 
C. cheramota Meyr. has about the size and colouring of albicatena (12 d) but lacks the transverse series of cheramota. 
red-and-white spots. Both wings with blackish cell-dot, the white, red-edged terminal marks small, excepting 
one at tomus of forewing and one at apex of hindwing. Forewing with traces of white ante- and postmedian 
lines. Fiji, very variable. 
C. viridifimbria Warr. (11 d). Size of large consobrina. Rather paler, more irrorated with whitish; viridifim- 
distal margins merely with small white vein-dots, fringes also plain green. British New Guinea: Angabunga bria. 
River. Also from Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea. 
C. rhodonia Prout. Texture and colour of viridifimbria, possibly its $. The white terminal dots are rhodonia. 
surrounded with crimson, which extends on to the proximal part of the fringe; and the forewing has blotches 
of the same colour about the postmedian white spots of the forewing, the blotches in cellules 5 and 1 b large. 
Mount Goliath, 1 $. 
C. castaneata Warr. (= agathia Warr.) (lie). A somewhat anomalous species, the <$ lacking the caslaneata. 
hindtibial pencil and process, the $ (as in some African Coynibaena) having the antenna strongly pectinate. 
In markings unlike any other species. British and Dutch New Guinea. 
