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EUTANE; SCAPHIDRIOTIS. By Dr. A. 8 eitz. MILTOCHRISTA. By Dr. M. Dbatjdt. 
terminalis. 
maculaia. 
alba. 
semivUrea. 
xyloyram- 
ma. 
27. Genus: Eutane Wlcr. 
Accidental resemblances in the venation have led to a combination of very heterogeneous elements 
in this genus. The typical form, E. terminalis, by the black-orange colouring somewhat recalls many species 
of the preceding family, but it greatly differs by the habits. The larvae live on sporadically growing stone- 
rags and they are seen in day-time speedily running across the bare rocks in order to look for their scattered 
small food-plants. For the pupation, however, which takes place under stones, the animals prefer certain 
stones, underneath which are found together regular colonies of half-pupated larvae, cocoons, freshly developed 
imagines and such in copula. Proboscis long, but very delicate; palpi short, porrect, £ antennae ciliated; fore¬ 
wings triangular. The 1st subcostal vein branches off about 1 mm before the upper angle of the cell of the 
forewing, the 2nd to 5th subcostal veins rise with a joint footstalk at the cell-angle itself; a little below it the 
upper radial rises, whereas the lower one rises directly above the lower cell-angle. The Eutane have become 
known from Australia, only one species which is presumably incorrectly computed to it lives in Borneo. 
E. terminalis WJcr. (18 g). Black, head and abdominal end orange, the forewings spotted orange 
and the hindwings quite orange-yellow with a broad black marginal band. The spots on the forewings may be 
whitish as in the figured if they are besides larger, we have ab. maculata Btlr. before us. Very common in 
the Botany Bay, where I found numbers of it in spring in rocky places close at the ,,Heads' 4 ; on thejBlue 
Mountains etc; to the north as far as Queensland (Maryborough). The larva runs very swiftly across the rocks and 
pupates underneath stones, often gregariously; the imago I often met in the company of the very similar Asura 
lydia Don.(lSi). 
E. alba Hmps. is known to me only from Hampson’s figure. Scarcely half as large; white with 
a brown forehead and a blackish cell-spot on the forewing; 1 dot before the apex, 2 at the border where the 
veins 4 and 1 terminate, the costa and border towards the apex tinted yellowish-brown. Hindwing with 
a very faint dark hue in the distal half. Apparently only the is known. Sandakan. 
E. semivitrea Rothsch. A: antennae black, with strong combs; head with an orange-buff forehead and 
black vertex; thorax black, tegulae and base of patagia orange; abdomen black with a buff anal tuft and buff 
valvular appendages. Forewings black; a broad band near the base, an antemedian one, 3 square median spots, 
a postmedian band and 3 antemarginal spots are yellow-orange. Hindwings semi-transparent orange-yellow; 
the distal third, costal and posterior margins are black. In the 9 the antennae are black and filiform; head 
orange-yellow; thorax black, tegulae, the basal two thirds of the patagia and a spot in the middle orange-buff; 
abdomen black, anal tuft orange-yellow; forewings black; a subbasal band, an antemedian one, three longish, 
oval median ones, an interrupted postmedian band and three very large subterminal spots are orange-buff, 
hindwing in the basal half orange-buff, in the distal half black. Another $ is larger and the markings more 
reddish-yellow. Length of forewings: ^ 11, 9 13 to 15 mm. Curanda (Queensland). 
28. Genus: Scapliiririotis True. 
Hereto belongs a small butterfly of a very conspicuous nature, exhibiting among others the following 
peculiarities by which it cannot be mistaken for any other allied species. The much longer palpi are not porrect, 
but bent up, so that they project above beyond the forehead. The antennae rest on a frontal cone and then 
basal joints are thickened to oviform ampullae or knobs. The forewing has two cells instead of one by another 
transverse vein being inserted between the median and submedian, from the middle of which a branch, a third 
radial (presumably corresponding to the upper median vein) extends to the margin. On the hindwing the 
upper distal part of the cell exhibits a scent-spot. 
S. xylogramma Trnr. The animal is sufficiently characterized by the marks of the genus. It has an 
expanse of 2 cm, the forewings are ochreous-yellow, suffused with bright and floating brown clouds and markings, 
particularly the basal part which is almost quite brown. Hindwings brownish-white with a dark shading in 
and round the cell, the scent-spot lustrous black. Brisbane in Queensland. 
29. Genus: Miltochrfsta Hbn. 
The numerous species of this genus mostly consisting of delicately rosy-red and wax-coloured species 
(more than 80 are known so far) number among the neatest appearances of the whole family. In Europe only 
one species occurs: M. miniata , being mostly known as Caligenia rosea and being distributed as far as Scandinavia 
