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DENDROCERA; HOJVIOPHYLOTIS. Bg Dr. K. Jordan. 
stipata. 
v arietta. 
fumosa. 
separata. 
mboinensis. 
guttigera. 
privata. 
quadri- 
punctata. 
bipuncta. 
melaleuca .; 
postica. 
albicilia. 
C. stipata Walk. (8e). Rody and antennae shining green or blue, abdomen with white transverse bands 
beneath; the metallic sheen is not always distinct all over. Base of*forewings above and both wings beneath 
greenish blue, or striped with green blue, sometimes these stripes are only very faintly indicated. Forewings 
with two pairs of white spots, hindwings with one white spot in the middle near to the base, occasionally 
extending to the hind border, and a second before the tip of the wing. North India, Burmah, Java. 
C. variata. Body and base of wings with a faint metallic sheem, antennae as usual blue, thorax 
copper colored. Wings long. Forewings with 4, hindwings with two white spots. It is known from the 
Papuan regien, westwards to Sumba. It forms geographical races. — variata Swinh. (8 e) from Dutch New 
Guinea; head with a white spots behind the eyes; the abdominal segments generally with a distinct white 
border, (lie proximal spots of the forewings long; the two sposs of the hindwings large and connected with 
one another. — In fumosa subsp. nov. from the island of Mefor, in the Geelvink Bay, the white markings are 
suffused with black and therefore very indistinct; the spots of both wings smaller, the white borders of the 
undersides of the abdominal segments are represented by pale brown scales. Only one ? known. — separata 
subsp. nov. The spots of the hindwings widely seperated from one another, all the spots which are as distinct 
as in variata are traversed by black veins. From Milne Bay, in British New Guinea and the Key islands; a 
¥ from Sumba, with larger spots belongs probably here, the abdomen of this specimen is purple beneath, the 
first segement white; ¥¥ from Key and British New Guinea are not known to me. — amboinensis subsp. nov. 
?: the 1 st abdominal segment dirty white laterally; the spots of the forewings small, the inner smaller than 
the outer, the latter rounded; outer spot of the hindwings large, the inner large. Amboina, captured by Doherty 
in February 1892. — guttigera subsp. nov. ¥: no white spot behind the eye; abdomen uniform purple brown; 
the spots of the wings reduced; the inner spot on hindwings suffused with black on the uppersides. Batjan, 
discovered by Doherty in August 1897. 
C. privata Moore (8e). Resembles the former species, is possibly only a western form of same. Collar 
white in front, a large white spot behind the eyes; abdomen above at the base more or less white, the 6 th 
and 7 th segments being frequently bordered with white. Java; Borneo; Philippines. 
3. Genus: Dendrocera I-Iamps. 
Small broad winged species: antennae of c? with long pectinations, simple in the ?, somewhat roughly 
scaled beneath. Palpi very short. Hindtibia with only one pair of spurs. I st radial vein of the hindwings 
wanting. Two Indian species. 
D. quadripunctata Ramps. (8d). Blackish brown, faintly purple. Forewings with two pairs of small 
yellow spots. Ceylon. 
D. bipuncta Ramps. (8e not bipunctata). Body and forewings above greenish black with a faint sheen. 
Forewings with one pair of white dots in the outer region. South India. 
4. Genus: IfmssoiftSiylotis Turn. 
Forehead protruding, its outer border holowed out. Eyes large. Palpi long. Antennae of cd pectinated 
with the exception of the tip, in the ? from the base to beyond the middle somewhat broadened, then again 
contracted, broader than in all related small Zygaenas, beneath as usual indented lengthwise. In the hindwings 
the 1 st radial vein is wanting, in some species the 1 st median and 3 1 ' 1 radial veins are coalesced. Rear tibia 
with one, rarely with two pairs of spurs, legs long and thin. From Malacca to New Guinea and Queensland, 
also oceuring in Africa. 
H. melaleuca spec. nov. Veins of the forewings arising from the cell; in the hindwings the 3 th radial 
and the 1 st median stalked. Body above greenish blue, abdomen with a bright sheen. Forewings purple 
black ringed with white, the other legs white, ringed with purple black, palpi purple, with white points to the 
segments. Forewings above brownish black, purple, with a faint sheen. Hindwings milkwhite, iridescent, from 
the cell to the costal border black. Underside of forewings grey black the black costal border ol the hindwings 
interrupted and not reaching to the base. New Guinea. — In melaleuca (8e) the forewings are 10 mm long 
and the hindwings quite white with the exception of the costal border. A c? from the Angabunga river, 
British New Guinea captured by A. S. Meek at an elevation of 6000 ft. — postica subsp. nov. Smaller; 
hindwings with a brown streak on the border on the 2 nd submedian vein. Biagi, upper reaches of the Mambare 
river, in the north eastern portion of British New Guinea, 3 cYcY, March, April at an elevation of 5000 ft. 
H. albicilia Ramps. (8e). Veins of fore wings arise from the cell; in the hindwings the 1 st median and 
the 3 th radial veins are stalked, the second radial arises from the stalk or from the sharply prolonged corner 
of cell. Brown; underside of the body white, rear tibia also wilh brown rings before the ends; front tibia 
and all the tarsi brown, white along the shaft, middle tibia white, brown at the base, wings brown witlVa 
faint blue sheen; hindwings in many specimens faintly grey transparent in the middle, fringes white. Undersides 
paler; the borders of the cell of the hindwings more or lees broadly white; fringes white. Length of wings 
4—6 x /a mm. Island of Ron; Fergusson; Tenimber; Amboina; Pulo Laut, South east Borneo; North east Assam- 
