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tornal blotch of the forewing extended by a longitudinal cloud to the cell-spot and the antemedian. 2 <$q from 
Vella Lavella, one of which we figure, agree closely, though slightly more colourful. The form from Rendova 
(5 S3) is also essentially the same, though rather variable, in the direction of the weakening of the dark cloudings. 
S. Hindleg of with femur tufted, tibia very short, not tufted, with 
1 long and 1 moderately long spur (Conchocometa Warr.). 
A. sabulosa Warr. (19 f). Areole very small, sometimes wanting. Warren founded the section on sabulosa. 
the “basal segments of abdomen of armed with flaps of scales, one at each side being smooth and very 
glossy”. A similar latero-ventral “flap” is conspicuous at the base of the abdomen of flavirubra $ (see below). 
sabulosa is weakly marked, pale both above and beneath, hindwing with the punctiform cell-mark of interpul- 
sata; shape and lines more as in dotilla. Java, the original series from Palabnan. It is also known from 
Sarawak, and Mr Wileman took a $ on Luzon. 
T. Hindtibia of <$ very short, tufted (except in pantophyrta) a n d with o n 1 y 
1 spur (Eremocentra Warr.). 
A. obviata Prout (= stramineata Warr. , nom. praeocc.) (19 f). Palpus less extremely long than in obviata. 
denticulata, the only other similarly coloured Eremocentra; hindwing much more crenulate; forewing with 
.cell-spot annular, though less distinct (except its anterior dot) than on hindwing, median shade anteriorly 
not oblique. Founded on a $ from Biagi, a few specimens from Oetakwa River, Mount Goliath and Rook 
Island also known. A race (?) from Ceram is rather large and pale. 
A. pantophyrta Prout (18 a). Hindtibia less extremely short than in the rest of the group and not tufted; pantophyrta. 
femur only slightly (in the rest strongly) tufted. The yellow colour brighter than in subrubrata f. ustipennis 
and differently disposed. Upper Aroa River, 1 <$. Perhaps an aberration of a more uniformly coloured species; 
compare flavirubra f. flavareata. 
A. flavirubra Warr. Very variable, but generally easy to recognize by the squarer forewing (termen flavirubra. 
anteriorly less oblique), the prevalence of some shade of dull cinnamon in the colouring and the very small, white-pu- 
pilled cell-spots. The “spur” (terminal) of the is somewhat aborted, but there are 2 additional processes 
on the tibia, thorn-like and irregularly placed, both as a rule entirely concealed in the dense hair-tuft. $ an¬ 
tenna proximally thickened, with raised scale-tufts above. Type a worn from Cedar Bay, with yellow spots 
much as in pantophyrta, although mostly smaller, but with a stronger development of them between the cell- 
dot and the subterminal series on the forewing. It is unfortunately one of the rarest forms, though I have 
seen a very similar (also worn) from Sudest Island and 2 approaching it from the Admiralty Islands. The 
race — if indeed the Malaysian one be differentiable — is further known to me from New Guinea, Admiralty 
Islands, Dampier, Rook. New Hanover, Woodlark, Sudest and Rossel. - ab. simplex nov. (19 f). More reddish simplex. 
and much more unicolorous than the name-type. Generally distributed, the type a $ from Cairns district. - 
ab. transversata Warr., the type from Cedar Bay, has a sharp black median line on both wings, a slight or transversata. 
strong longitpdinal line from it to the distal margin along, the 3rd radial and a more or less linear (instead 
of punctiform) postmedian line. It has occurred sparingly on the Louisiades, Rook Island and the Hydro- 
grapher Mountains, probably everywhere. — ab. maculata nov. (19 f) has a large black patch on the hindmargin maculata. 
of the hindwing, a smaller one (or rather, a cluster of 3) subterminally between the radials and often a slight 
thickening of the black cell-rings. Cedar Bay (type), the Louisiades, Woodlark and New Hanover. Inter¬ 
mediates, which should be classed here, have the black markings of the hindwing more broken or more distri¬ 
buted. flavareata Warr., from Penang, Pahang and Sumatra, has the yellow patches in part larger than flavareata. 
flavirubra, so that it is superficially almost exactly like pantophyrta. — ab. flaviversata nov. A E from Mount flaviversata. 
Tahan and a $ from Kedah Peak, Malay Peninsula, show almost the counterpart of transversata but have di¬ 
stinct yellow maculation to recall that of flavareata, especially on the forewing outside the median line anteriorly. 
Thus the few Malayan specimens yet known seem to point to the possibility of a separate subspecies, but they 
are insufficient to justify any dogmatic pronouncement. hyperpheres subsp. nov. is larger, the length of a hyperpheres. 
forewing 17 mm (in a few exceptional examples of the other races reaching 16). Wings above more suffused 
with grey, beneath relatively pale, less rosy than in most flavirubra. Probably variable, but both the known 
examples belong to the buff-spotted form, like typical flavirubra■ or rather pantophyrta. Paloe, W. Celebes 
(J. P. A. Kalis), a pair, the type <$ at 3100 feet, the $ at 1800 feet. 
A. denticulata Hmps. (19 f) has already been differentiated above from obviata. The type E is the only denticulata. 
specimen which I have seen from the Naga Hills, but I have found no indication of racial variation at Dar¬ 
jiling (where it is also very rare) nor in Malaysia, nor even on Ceram. We figure a $ from Pengalengan, Java. 
A Ceylon q 1 of this structure-group, in the Oxford Museum, has a large white cell-spot on the hindwing, almost 
as in monetaria (ab., subsp. vel sp.?). — ab. mediusta Warr., from the Khasis, has the median shade of both mediusta. 
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