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PAMPHLEBIA; HEMIDROMODES; PARAMAXATES. By L. B. Prout. 
Wings normally shaped. A chiefly Mediterranean genus, which scarcely belongs to the Indo-Australian fauna; 
see Vol. 4, p. 26, Vol. 16, p. 36. 
indecretaia. M. indecretata Walk. (= pruinosa Btlr., aperta Swinh., directa limps, nec Walk.) (12 k) will almost 
certainly prove to be a form of herbaria Hbn., generally very small, rather pale, with the lines extremely slender, 
yellowish. “South Hindostan" (Walker) and distributed in coastal districts to Karachi, also not rare in Ceylon. 
leprosa. M. leprosa Hmps. (12 a). <$ with palpus longer, pectinations shorter, hindtibia with a hair-pencil, thus 
scarcely a Microloxia. Very distinct in the broad pale costal border of the forewing, apical patch of hindwing 
and tornal patch of both wings. Ceylon, only known from two imperfect from Trincomali. 
83. Genus; PanipliicbJa Warr. 
An offshoot of Microloxia , differing in the sharply angled hindwing and in having the 1st subcostal 
of the forewing stalked with the others. I only know one species and have some doubts as to the validity 
of the second. 
rubrolimb- P. rubrolimbraria Guen. (= diserta Walk., simpliciaria Walk., ruficinctaria Snell., rubrolimbataria 
raria. j\j oore ^ rubrolimbaria Meyr., perigrapta Turn.) (14 a). Recognizable at once by the shape and the very strong 
red terminal line. Very generally distributed from Ceylon (whence came Guenee’s and both Walker’s types) 
interrupta. and Assam to Formosa, the Philippines, New Guinea and N. Australia. — interrupta Bastelb. (14 a), from the 
Bismarck Archipelago, has the terminal line slighter and interrupted. 
zebrinata. P. zebrinata Th.-Mieg, founded on a single $ from “New Guinea” in bad condition, is said to differ 
from rubrolimbraria in that both wings are traversed by several slightly darker green lines; those of the fore¬ 
wing are straight and number about 5. Possibly this appearance of lines is illusory, due to its condition, but 
I quote it provisionally as a separate species. 
84. Genus: Heiimlromotles Prout 
Palpus slender, in $ rather short, in $ moderate. Tongue wanting. Antenna in both sexes pectinate. 
Hindtibia in £ greatly dilated, with the terminal spurs very short or obsolescent; in $ with terminal spurs 
well developed, proximal ones short or wanting. Wings smooth-margined, in aspect similar to Microloxia', fore¬ 
wing with 1st subcostal from cell, 1st median sometimes just stalked; hindwing with costal anastomosing 
with cell to near middle, 1st median well stalked. The type species and a close ally inhabit the Soudan and 
the Sahara, but an anomalous Indian species is referred here. 
sabulifera. H. sabulifera Prout (12 k). Hindtibia of the $ with terminal spurs only. Forewing with both the 1st 
radial and the 1st median well stalked; hindwing with abdominal margin relatively a little longer than in the 
African species. Very distinct in its sandy irroration on a whitish ground, the postmedian line somewhat more 
distally placed than in the African species. Deesa (Disa), 1 $. 
85. Genus: l*aramaxates Warr. 
Not very close to any known genus. Perhaps somewhat related to Maxates, more specialised in the 
loss of the frenulum, but less so in the venation; unlike nearly all other well-specialised Hemitheinae, it has 
even the 2nd subcostal of the hindwings not or barely stalked. Antenna in both sexes simple. Hindtibia with 
all spurs, in the dilated. Only two species are known. 
vagata. P. vagata Walk. ( = polygrapharia Hmps., nec Walk.) (14 a). Somewhat variable, but impossible to 
mistake for any other species except the following, which see for the differentiation. Underside much paler, 
the ground-colour of the hindwing (also of the forewing posteriorly) almost white, the markings strongly ex¬ 
pressed though somewhat variable; forewing anteriorly in part greenish-yellow, but with extensive basal and 
khasiana. costal suffusion dull fleshy or sometimes more greyish. — ab. khasiana Warr. has the outer band much narrowed, 
sometimes quite fragmentary, the distinction particularly noticeable on the hindwing beneath, vagata is common 
in N. E. India (Sikkim to Assam) and occasional in the Malay Peninsrda, Tonkin, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 
polygra- P. polygrapharia Walk. (15 a). Forewing with the teeth of the distal margin a little less produced, a 
pharia. rather conspicuous pale posterior spot outside the postmedian line; hindwing with some red suffusion at base. 
Underside variable, but always with some bright red suffusion, in particular with an anterior red half-band 
proximally to the dark subterminal of the forewing. Borneo (type), Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. — 
celebensis. celebensis Warr. . founded on a single imperfect $ from S. Celebes, cannot yet be definitely differentiated, but 
seems to have the underside less highly coloured, inclined to revert towards that of vagata, though with a very 
broad band on the hindwing, such as is found only in polygrapharia. 
