COMOSTOLA. By L. B. Prout. 
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102. Genus: Comostola Meyr. 
As has been pointed out in Vol. 4, p. 32, this genus shares most of its characters with Iodis, but differs 
very materially in its denser scaling and bright colouring. The discocellulars, which were mentioned as a further 
distinction from Iodis, are formed as in Berta-, thus it may be said that Comostola stands in the same relation 
to Comostolopsis as does Berta to Iodis. 
Comostola is divisible into two sections, which are perhaps separable generically. The typical section 
has the margin of the forewing nearly straight, that of the hindwing slightly bent at the 3rd radial (though 
never tailed, as in Berta) and has the pattern as in Comostolopsis-, the second (to which Warren gave the pre¬ 
occupied name of Le-ucodesmia) is rounder-winged and with a very characteristic scheme of markings. Both 
sections are almost exclusively Indo-Australian; only subtiliaria and nympha have much claim to be regarded 
as Palaearctic. 
C. hypotyphla Prout (14 i) differs from Comostolopsis maculata (14 h) in its smaller size, more bent hindwing, hypotyphla. 
smaller cell-rings and better developed and less deeply dentate postmedian line. Hindtibia of the C not much 
thickened. N. W. India. 
C. virago Prout (? = pupillata Sterneck ) (14h). Palpus shorter than in most Comostola, antenna pec- virago. 
tinate in both sexes, hindtibia of <$ not dilated. Bright green, slightly more bluish than mundata (14i), costal 
margin not spotted, lines scarcely touched with red, terminal red line extremely fine, hindwing only very 
weakly bent. Sikkim to W. China, the type from the Khasis. 
C. inops Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 5 a). Bright green, less bluish than ovifera and with more nearly the markings inops. 
of Comostolopsis maculata (14h), though with the red terminal line entirely wanting, the postmedian spots diffe¬ 
rently arranged, the hindwing more evenly rounded. Lidderwat, Bidden Valley, Kashmir. 
C. ovifera Prout (14 i). Readily known by the absence of all red markings, even the cell-spot of the ovifera. 
forewing being merely a simple roundish white spot. Sikkim at 10,000—12,000 feet. — szechuanensis (Wehrli szechua- 
MS.) (= ovifera Sterneck) subsp. nov. Rather larger, vein-dots obsolete, cell-spots red-brown, on forewing sur¬ 
rounded with white. Ta-tsien-lu, the type and others in coll. Wehrli. 
nensis 
C. mundata Warr. (14 i) is of a deeper green than most of the species, with the costal edge of the fore- mumlata. 
wing strongly darkened (purple-fuscous), the postmedian dots very small. Khasis and perhaps Selangor. 
C. ocellulata Prout (14 i). Somewhat larger, lighter green, costal edge much less dark, its cell-mark ocellulata. 
more rounded, terminal line finer, more interrupted, hindwing appreciably less narrow. Formosa; also, accord¬ 
ing to Joannis, Tonkin. 
C. subtiliaria f. nympha Btlr. (Suppl. 4, pi. 3 f). Described from Japan and no doubt chiefly Palaearctic, nympha. 
hut known from Ningpo and perhaps W. China. Very similar to virago (14h) or somewhat more yellowish 
green, the $ with very long palpus and non-pectinate antenna, the creamy postmedian spots accompanied 
distally by stronger red markings, the terminal line generally stronger, the cell-mark of the hindwing less rounded 
(generally “diamond-shaped”). 
C. flavifimbria Warr. (14 i). More vivid, yellower green, the fringes deeper buff, the pale transverse flavifim- 
spots obsolete. Cell-spots generally large, at least on the hindwing. New Guinea, the type from Angabunga hrm - 
River. In this species, as also in the four which follow, the hindtibia has a hair-pencil and short terminal 
process. — rubeibasis subsp. nov. has stronger red vein-dots to represent the lines and has a red, black-mixed rubeibasis. 
spot at the base of the costa of the forewing. New Britain (loc. typ.) and slightly less extreme forms in the 
other Bismarcks. 
nes. 
C. haplophanes Turn. (14 i) perhaps represents flavifimbria in North Queensland, but has much smaller haplopha- 
and darker cell-spots and the other markings cpiite slight. 
C. leucomerata Walk. Only 2 specimens known tome. Slightly less yellowish green than flavifimbria (14 i), leuco- 
costal edge white, fringe whitish, cell-mark of forewing small, that of hindwing even larger than in most flavi- merata. 
fimbria, the other markings less strong. Queensland and New South Wales. 
C. rufimargo Warr. (14 i). A pretty little species, the fringes more cinnamon than in the others, this rufimargo. 
colour extending on to the wing-margin and becoming still more red proximally of a series of dark, somewhat 
metallic lunules. Abdomen with a red patch dorsally. Structure nearly as in laesaria. New Guinea. 
C. laesaria Walk. (= perlepidaria Walk.) (14 i). The most universally distributed of the group, inhabiting laesaria. 
Ceylon, India, Malaysia, Queensland, New Guinea and its islands and the Bismarck group, to which list pro¬ 
bably numerous additions will yet be made. Recognizable by its small size, light bluish green colour and orange- 
brown markings, the postmedian series and on the forewing the antemedian always well developed; postmedian 
