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HEMITHEA. By L. B. Prout. 
scquestrata. 
notospila. 
subflavida. 
reducta. 
copiosa. 
melalopha. 
quadri- 
punctata. 
dorsifla- 
I'afa. 
undifera. 
insularia. 
profecta. 
duplicata. 
antigrapha. 
E. sequestrata Prout. (13 i). Very similar to obscurata but with the 3rd joint of the $ palpus consi¬ 
derably shorter than the 2nd (in obscurata longer than the 2nd). Eorewing less sinuate and less crenulate. 
Colour lighter grey-green; subterminal bands beneath more restricted. Milne Bay, together with the two 
preceding species; also from Goodenough Island. 
75. Genus: Hemitliea Dup. 
Characters nearly as given under Metallochlora, but the $ without proximal spurs on the hindtibia. 
Abdominal crests present but not metallic. Wings generally of a duller or more bluish green, the pattern simple, 
generally consisting of two wavy or dentate white lines on the forewing and one on the hindwing. For a fuller 
account the reader is referred to Vol. 4, p. 23. The distribution is Palaearctic and Indo-Australian; the species 
belonging to the latter fauna are in part confusingly similar and very imperfectly known. 
A. Antenna of $ ciliate. 
H. notospila Prout (12 d) in its size, colour and the rather broad grey-green lines recalls Episo- 
thalma and it is even faintly intermediate in shape. Underside pale, with dark patches at tornus of fore¬ 
wing and apex of hindwing, closely as in insularia (13 i) and others of the smaller species. Named from the 
dark spot near base of abdomen. Borneo (loc. typ.), Perak and Selangor. 
H. subflavida is geographically variable. The range of the two New Guinea forms is peculiar and it 
is possible that more extensive material may show them to be merely aberrations or, on the contrary, separate 
species; but it is constant for all the specimens yet known to me. subflavida Warr. (13 i), named from the 
yellowish tinge of the underside of the forewing, has on the hindwing beneath (which is whiter) a dark apical 
blotch, but no submarginal band. Lower Aroa River, Kumusi River, Hydrographer Mountains, Goodenough 
I., Fergusson I. (loc. typ.), Rook I. and New Ireland. — reducta Warr. is similar above, but the hindwing 
beneath has a broad blackish submarginal band. The original $ was a dwarf, hence the misleading name of 
reducta. Ninay Valley, Humboldt Bay (loc. typ., erroneously published as “Cedar Bay”), Vulcan I., Dampier 
I. — copiosa Prout is a little broader winged than the other forms, intermediate in shape towards Episothalma 
sequestrata, (13 i); underside with the dark borders rather broader than in reducta and with the postmedian 
line (or shade) present, on the forewing partly fuscous, on the hindwing olivaceous. Bougainville. 
H. melalopha Prout (12 g) is much smaller than notospila (12 d), 3rd joint of palpus not so short, ter¬ 
minal blotches beneath wanting; not quite so broad-winged as quadripunctata (12 h), the dark vein-dots wanting; 
abdominal black crest intenser than in either. Luzon. 
H. quadripunctata Warr. (12 h) is perhaps related to subflavida, but has the lines slight, expressed 
chiefly by vein-dots resp. dashes, the yellowish underside without dark marking. Abdomen with 2 pairs of 
black scale-tufts (embryo crests), the posterior pair confluent into a larger spot. Dutch Timor, only the type 
known. 
H. dorsiflavata Prout (12 k) was named from the yellowish cloudings and crests of the abdomen. Crests 
strong. Lines and their vein-dots white or whitish. Central Ceram: Manusela, 6000 feet, only the $ known. 
H. undifera Walk. (13 i) has the abdominal crests so strong that Warren made it the type of a sepa¬ 
rate genus, Lophocrita, but it manifestly belongs here. Larger and more glossy than insularia, with more glau¬ 
cous reflections, the fringes pale. Sarawak (the type) and S. Celebes. 
H. insulasia Guen. (13 i) is somewhat variable, or perhaps embraces more than one species. Being 
less small than the species of the tritonaria group, it is more comparable to the Palaearctic aestivaria Hb., from 
which, however, it differs particularly in the white terminal dots and on the underside in the presence of an 
apical dark blotch on the hindwing and generally a weaker one at the hind angle of the forewing. Face reddish. 
Founded on a bad $ from Borneo, but apparently widely distributed in the Malayan subregion. — profecta 
subsp. ( ? sp.) nov. (13 k) is a rather large form, relatively narrower winged, with the tail of the hindwing strong, 
the spots on the underside generally reduced, but sometimes folly as strong as in the type. Khasis, not rare, 
type in Mus. Tiing; Sikkim, rarer. — duplicata Prout is shaped like the name-type, or perhaps very slightly less 
narrow; darker, terminal line rather more crenulate, fringes rather darker. Fergusson Island (type) and British 
New Guinea. 
H. antigrapha Prout, (12 h). Palpus with 3rd joint longer than in insularia, especially in the $; shape 
of profecta ; colouring almost as dark as in duplicata. Darker than tritonaria (13 i), the face greener, the abdominal 
spots more black-mixed, the dark terminal blotches of the underside present, indeed strong. Assam (type) 
and the Malay Peninsula. 
H. wuka. Generally smaller than insularia, the $ palpus longer. The dark reddish brown face, broader 
wings, absence of terminal dark line beneath (present in both insularia and antigrapha) and the coloration of 
