ALOPHOGASTER. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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to the forceps of earwigs or the sting of the Hymenoptera. — Larva broader in front than behind, shiny, 
resembling bird-droppings, with brown dorsal stripe, which is broadened anteriorly; the sides white, more 
rarely yellow. The cocoon firm, barrel-shaped, striped with yellow, brown and red. Food-plants: Ficus 
and Terminalia. The eggs are laid in small glutinous masses. 
P. flammans Walk. (1 e). Five subcostals in the forewing. Body and wings vermilion. Antenna, flammans. 
breast, legs and a spot on the upperside of the abdomen blue-black, as well as a sharply defined marginal 
area on the forewing and the hindwing from the margin to the cell; underside of the femora, tip of the 
antenna and the fringes at the apex of the forewing, grey-white; hindwing semitransparent, almost glassy 
from the base to the middle. Abdomen in c f and ? red beneath. — Nord India: Lahore, Simla, Sikkim: Burma. 
P. triadum. Very similar to the preceding species, but only 4 subcostal veins in the forewing. — 
triadum Walk. (= fortunei H.-Sch.) (vol. II, I a). Both wings above and beneath with a blue-black marginal area, triadum. 
which in the forewing is less sharply defined than in P. flammans Walk. Abdomen black at least in the middle, 
beneath grey in the cf and black in the ?. China; Tonkin. — erythra subsp. nov (le). Forewing above erythra. 
entirely red, only the fringes of the outer margin purple-black, beneath a large purple-black marginal spot 
as in triadum Walk., which is proximally somewhat washed over with red; margin more rounded than in 
triadum; hindwing more densely clothed with red hairs. Abdomen (?) black above and beneath. Belgaum, 
one ? in the British Museum. The larva dirty white, with light brown oblong patch on the back. — limbata limbata. 
Wallengr. ?: abdomen above black, beneath and laterally red. Wings somewhat narrower than in the 
preceding forms; blue-black marginal area of the forewing almost straight proximally and costally, sharply 
defined, extending proximally to beyond the base of the lower median vein, filling up the lower angle of 
the cell. Hindwing red at the costal margin and the base, the cell only very slightly red. Manila; also 
2 ?? from Singapore and Borneo in the British Museum. — sumatrensis Walk. Similar to limbata, smaller, sumatrensis. 
forewing only 11 —13 mm long; abdomen above less extended black. Sumatra; Java. Larva on Ficus and 
Terminalia. Apparently only ?? are represented in collections. 
P. mahisa Moore (le). Black; underside of the femora grey; collar, forecoxae, underside of the mahisa. 
abdomen and costal margin of the forewing above deep red; hindwing paler red above and beneath from 
the base to the tip of the cell and forward to the apex, and also the forewing beneath to about the tip of 
the cell; thorax above with red and black hairs. 4 subcostal veins in the forewing. — Java; Bali. 
P. rubra spec. nov. (le). Still smaller than mahisa. 5 subcostal veins in the forewing. Body and rubra. 
wings yellowish red: antenna, the greater part of the upperside of the abdomen and the fringes of the forewing 
black; the legs and breast yellowish brown, the tibiae partly red on the upperside. First submarginal vein of the 
forewing only weakly developed. Length of the forewing 9 mm. — 2 cfcf from Formosa, in the British Museum. 
P. dichroa spec. nov. (1 e). ?: body and basal half of the wings yellowish red; antenna, legs and distal dicbroa. 
half of the wings bluish black; abdomen above with blackish patch before the tip. 4 subcostal veins in the 
forewing, the latter 15 mm long. — 1 ? in the British Museum from Port Blair, Andamans, found in December. 
P. dimidiata Snell, (le). Body including breast and legs as well as the basal half of the wings dimidiata. 
orange-yellow, abdomen in the cf white-grey beneath. Distal half of the wings blue-black; tip of the 
abdomen black. 4 subcostal veins in the forewing. Base of the antenna yellow. — Celebes. 
P. fuscalis Swinh. (le). Black, abdomen almost entirely yellowish red, with long red tufts of hair fusca/is. 
at the sides. Wings transparent brown-black, the veins darker, the 4. and 5. subcostals of the forewing 
and the 2. and 3. radials of the hindwing stalked. — Assam, 1 ? in the Oxford Museum. 
2. Genus: Alophogsister Ramps. 
Nearly allied to Phauda. Antenna thinner, in the cf the pectinations not joined together in angle- 
shape, the last 6—8 segments with short pectinations; in the ? all the segments weakly pectinated, the last 
ones simple, scaling rough, only a narrow ventral stripe being scaleless. Abdomen with anal tufts in the c f. 
Ocelli wanting, cf and ? ditferently coloured. 5 subcostal veins in the forewing. — 2 species. 
A. rubribasis Ramps. (? = serraticornis Ramps.) (If). The cf purple-black, the collar, thorax, rubribasis. 
the sides and under surface of the abdomen and the base of the forewing yellowish red; wings blackish, 
somewhat metallic, semitransparent, more thickly scaled distally. In the ? the body and wings reddish 
yellow, abdomen above with black bands; forewing with large purple-black marginal spot, rounded 
proximally; hindwing glassy, yellowish posteriorly, apex blackish. — Assam: Khasia and Naga Hills, the 
series in the Tring Museum caught in May, June and October. The ? was also erroneously described as cf. 
A. tensipennis Walk. (If). Body and wings yellow-red; antenna with the exception of the base tensipennis. 
purple-black and also a somewhat indistinstly defined transverse band behind the middle of the forewing, 
a transverse band on the underside of the abdomen white. In the hindwing the 2. and 3. radials stalked. — 
Sarawak, Borneo, 1 ? in the Oxford Museum. 
