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M. variegata Rothsch. Head wooden-grey; antennae red-brown, serrate, the vesicle at the base black, variegata. 
flattened and excavated with serrate margins; thorax pale yellowish wooden-brown; abdomen ashy grey, the 
two last rings and the anal tuft wooden brown. Forewing in the basal third obliquely cut off yellowish Isabel- 
coloured, at the proximal margin a small brown luna and above the median fold an orange spot; the distal 
twx) thirds pale reddish wooden-brown, tinted darker brown, behind the middle with a whitish zigzag line, at 
the costal and distal margins spotted blackish-brown. Hindwing in the basal third greyish-white, distally 
wooden-brown with an Isabel-coloured longitudinal band along the lower radial from the margin to the middle 
of the cell. Length of forewings: 10 to ll 1 / 2 mm. British New Guinea, Biagi on the Mambara River in March. 
M. utricularia Rothsch. Head pale wooden-brown. Antennae much more feebly serrate than in variegata, utricidaria. 
but the vesicle with much more strongly dentate margins, so that it looks like a series of lamels. Abdomen 
ashy-grey, anal tuft reddish-yellow. Forewing in the basal half obliquely cut off reddish wooden-brown with 
3 brown spots at the costal margin , the innermost of which extends through the cell; distal half Isabel-coloured, 
intermixed with brown scales. Hindwings reddish-brown. Length of forewings: 9V 2 mm. Biagi on the Mambara 
River in British New Guinea in April. 
M. macroplaga Hmps. (16 e) exhibits on the yellowish-white forewing a very large blackish-brown macroplaga. 
inner-marginal spot and some small black costal-marginal dots. Hindwings blackish-brown. The antennae 
are normal. Pulo Laut. 
70. Genus : Trichocerosia Hmps. 
On the whole very closely allied to the genus Tricholepis near which it ought also to be placed, and 
distinguished above all by the long, rough hairing of the whole body extending even to the legs and antennal shaft. 
The $ antennae are short-combed; the tibial spurs somewhat longer than in Tricholepis. It differs besides 
by the 1st radial of the forewing rising from the ripper cell-angle and by the absence of the 3rd subcostal vein. 
T. atrifulva Hmps. (26 b). Head, thorax and abdomen black; spots on the shoulder-covers and the atrijulva. 
two first tarsal joints orange. On the black forewing there is an orange spot extending from near the base 
as far as behind the middle and above rounded off almost as far as the costal margin. Hindwing orange with 
a black marginal band being broad towards the costa and narrow towards the proximal angle. Expanse of 
wings: 26 mm. — New Guinea (Milne Bay). 
T. elongata R. db J. from the Louisiads (St. Aignan) has the yellow of the tarsi not so extensive: elongata. 
on the forewing the orange spot does not extend to the proximal margin and not beyond the middle of the cell. 
The hindwing is quite black from the base to the middle of the wing except an orange spot at the costal margin; 
besides the wings are narrower than in atrifulva. 8 1 /, to 9 1 /, mm. 
T. woodlarkiana R. db J. has still narrower wings, but it is otherwise like elongata-, the orange spot vcoodlarkt- 
of the forewing extends beyond the cell-end and includes yet the costal margin which is black in the preceding 
species. The orange spot of the hindwing is at the base expanded. Woodlark Island. 
T. signata R. & J. $ blackish-brown, tegulae with small orange spots. The orange spot of the black signata. 
forewing is rounded off towards the margin, it does not reach the costa nor the proximal margin. Towards 
the apex there is another, roundish-triangular spot of a deeper colour. On the forewing the orange is preponderant, 
only the base and proximal margin being narrowly black. Louisiads, south-eastern island, taken in April. — 
Size of the preceding. 
71. Genus: Caprimima Hmps. 
This genus to which very many species have been added during the last years, partly very much recalls 
Scaptesyle in its exterior, partly also some Halone. Proboscis well developed, palpi erect, not reaching the vertex; 
d 1 antennae ciliated, in caerulescens combed; tibiae with moderately long spurs. On the forewing the 1st median 
rises below the lower cell-angle, the 2nd radial above it. The 1st radial comes from below the upper cell-angle. 
The 3 lower subcostal veins rise on a joint footstalk, the two upper ones rise separated afar in both sexes. On 
the hindwing the 1st median and 3rd radial, as well as the subcostal and 1st radial rise petioled. Of most of 
the species that were recently described only the English types, at present not available for illustrative pur¬ 
poses, are known. 
C. albicollis Pag. (= gelida Hmps. pro parte) has bluish-black forewings; a broad white median albicollis. 
band extends from the subcosta to tire proximal margin and is somewhat strangulated above the latter; a broad, 
rounded antemarginal band is copper-red. Hindwing black, with a broad white median band growing some- 
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