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ZYGAENOSIA; NEASURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
rubiana. Z. rubiana Bothsch. looks like salomonis on the wings; the forewings are a little longer and the wings 
more intensely black. The body is black, the underside and abdomen ochreous; legs black, or parts of the 
underside of the hindlegs ochreous. •— From Culambangra, New Georgia, Salomons, in March. 
flavibasis. Z. flavibasis Swinh. is a variable species with rather long wings. In the form flavibasis head and 
thorax are black, abdomen above black, beneath like the legs orange, tibiae above more or less blackish-brown. 
Forewings hyaline with intensely black veins, at the margins scaled blackish; at the proximal margin there 
is a narrow, orange-yellow spot of variable size. Hindwings black, at the costal margin semi-diaphanous. From 
abdnmina- the Key Islands. — subsp. abdominalis Bothsch. has a yellow face, palpi, legs and abdomen, only the first and 
/(*•. seventh ring being above black. From Brit. New-Guinea (Milne Bay) and the Entrecasteaux Archipelago. — 
immaculate, subsp. immaculata Bothsch. is like the preceding form on its body, on the forewing, however, the yellow spots 
are absent, the veins are less intensely black, the margins broader sooty; on the hindwing beneath the costal 
margin is yellow. Perhaps a distinct species. — From Dutch New Guinea (Humboldt Bay). 
papua. Z. papua Oberth. (17 c, as flavibasis ) has the same body as flavibasis abdominalis. On the forewings 
the veins are less prominent and at the proximal margin there are two orange-yellow spots, separated by a 
small blackish-brown spot. — Dorey. 
medioplaga. Z. medioplaga Bothsch. differs from all the species by the yellow spot of the forewing being situate 
in the middle of the proximal margin. Body for the greatest part yellow, one spot each on the forehead and 
hindhead, the middle of the collar, palpal end and tibiae black. -— From Batjan and Halmahera, taken 
in March and August. 
flaviceps. C. flaviceps Bothsch. is intensely chrome-yellow on its head, first joint of the antennae, protliorax 
and the whole underside, inclusive of the palpi and legs; the posterior part of the thorax and the abdomen 
is above black. The wings are coloured like in the preceding and exhibit a large chrome-yellow spot at the 
l ingulata. base along the proximal margin; beneath the base of the costal margin is yellow. Batjan. -— subsp. cingulata 
Bothsch. from Ternate is black above on the whole thorax and from the 2nd to 4th abdominal rings. 
lata. Z. lata Bothsch. is coloured like papua, but it has considerably broader forewings with a strongly curved 
costal margin and the two yellow inner-marginal spots are much larger, the basal one extending to the subcosta, 
the distal one to the anal angle. Body and first antennal joint intensely chrome-yellow, only a part of the 
mesonotum is blackish-brown. — Ferguson Island. 
meeki. Z. meeki Bothsch. Wings similar as in flavibasis -, the veins are less prominent, the margins are narrower 
black, the subcostal .spaces are quite hyaline; a discocellular spot; at the proximal margin there are two yellow 
spots, the basal one larger than in flavibasis, the distal one separated far from it. The body is intensely chrome- 
yellow; hindhead, palpal terminal joint, thorax above, as well as the 1st and 7th abdominal rings are black, -—- 
Brit. New Guinea (Milne Bay). 
37. Genus: Itfeasura Hmps. 
Proboscis well developed. The porrect palpi do not quite reach as far as the coarsely haired forehead; 
<$ antennae serrate, ciliated in long tufts; abdomen coarsely haired. The genus is distinguished by the two 
lower radial veins on the forewing being combined into one; the upper radial vein rises far below the upper 
cell-angle. The uppermost subcostal vein anastomoses with the costal. On the hindwing the 2nd subcostal 
vein and the 1st radial are on 2 very long footstalks. 
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apicalis. N. apicalis Wkr. (17 c) (= bipunctata Wkr.) has orange-yellow forewings with one black dot each 
at the base of the cel) and at its end. The hindwings are somewhat lighter. China, Burma, Singapore. 
h ypophaeo- N. hypophaeola Hmps. (17 c) differs from apicalis by quite unicolorously ochreous-yellow wings without 
,a - any black dots; on the forewing the 5th subcostal vein rises nearer to the margin than the 3rd; quite the contrary 
compared with apicalis. From Sangir. 
taprobana. N. taprobana Hmps. is considerably larger (24 mm), likewise orange-yellow, at the base of the cell 
there is a black dot; in front of the black discocellular dot on a somewhat brownish cloudy ground extends a 
curved, faded, anterior transverse line; behind it a very indistinct, undulate transverse line, from which nerval 
stripes proceed towards the base and towards the margin on SC 5 , R 1 and R 3 . Hindwing below the apex clouded 
brownish. Ceylon. 
