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NEOSCAPTIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
bifasciata. 
aequidi- 
stans. 
dictyota. 
monogram- 
maria. 
septemrna- 
cula. 
fascionitens. 
affinis. 
apicipunc- 
ta. 
birnaculata. 
androconia- 
ia. 
cupreoni- 
tens. 
S. bifasciata Snell, has combed antennae and is distinguished by narrower forewings. Head and collar 
orange-yellow; antennae black with a yellow dot at the base; thorax and abdomen above black, with a faint 
greenish reflection; anal tuft yellow; under-surface greyish-brown. Forewings black with a green reflection, 
two broad transverse bands and an apical spot are orange-yellow. Hindwings of a paler orange and somewhat 
diaphanous with a black marginal band. Java. 
S. aequi.distans Luc. (16 e) has orange-yellow forewings with 5 black transverse bands. Hindwing 
orange with a blackish-brown border. Queensland. 
S. dictyota Meyr. (16 e) is much smaller than the preceding, more yellowish-white and with more 
strongly dentated black transverse lines, the two median ones of which are united at the costal margin. Hind- 
wings blackish-brown. Queensland. 
S. monogrammaria Wkr. (16 e) is also a very small species. The wings are red-brown, the forewing 
exhibits a postmedian, straight, whitish band. Ends of fringes white. From New South Wales. 
S. septemmacula Hexyl. has remained unknown to me, 
73. Genus: Ufeoscaptia Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by straightly porrect palpi, the tibiae with shorter spurs, the 
wings rather narrow. On the forewing the two lower radial veins are coalescent, the upper radial rises below 
the upper cell-angle. Hindwings as in Scaptesyle. In the colouring most of the species resemble those of the 
genus Caprimima, but they are smaller. Almost all exclusively inhabit New Guinea. Except one, all the species 
have been discovered of late, only the types are known and for the present unavailable. 
N. fascionitens Rothsch. Antennae sooty blackish-brown. Body of a deep steel bluish green, anal 
tuft sooty brown. Forewing in the basal fifth of a deep steel bluish-green, the rest of the basal half snow-white, 
without a black border; a broad, postmedian, bluish-green transverse band is bordered with black, behind 
it a large, chestnut-red spot, distally bordered with steel-blue; distal margin and fringes black. Hindwing in 
the ba^al half diaphanous white, distally and at the proximal margin dull black. Length of forewings: 10 mm. 
Biagi on the Mambara River, British New Guinea, in February. 
N. affinis Rothsch. very much resembles the preceding and differs by its snow-white collar and much 
more extensive, chestnut-brown apical spot which is but very narrowly bordered with bluish-green and black. 
Biagi on the Mambara River, British New Guinea, in February. 
N. apicipuncta Rothsch. Head and thorax steel-lustrous bluish-green, antennae and abdomen sooty 
black, anal tuft yellowish-grey. Forewing deep steel-green, an antemeclian, wedge-shaped, snow-white transverse 
band, the apex of the wedge at the costal margin; a large, postmedian, chestnut-red spot behind which there 
is a round white spot. Hindwing in the basal half snow-white, at the distal margin and proximal margin dull 
black. Length of forewings: 12 mm. Biagi on the Mambara River, British New Guinea, in March. 
N. birnaculata Rothsch. is like the preceding, but with another white spot behind the cell. Hinclwing 
black, at the base semi-diaphanous white. Length of forewings: 13 mm. Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea, 
in February. 
N. androconiata Rothsch. This most peculiar species exhibits at the costal margin an extraordinarily 
large scent-organ with black and sand-coloured yellow scent-scales and bristles, another one on the hindwing. 
Antennae dark brown; head and thorax dull steel-green; abdomen lustrous black, anal tuft brownish-grey. 
The forewing is at the base sooty black with dispersed, steel-green scales; at the median there is a large, snow- 
white spot; the distal three fifths are chestnut-red with a coppery reflection, the costal and distal margins coppery 
purple. Proximal margin sooty black. Hindwing in the basal half white, distally black, in the middle with a 
spot of coppery purple scales. Length of forewings: 12 1 / 2 mm. Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains in Dutch 
New Guinea (October till December). 
N. cupreonifens Rothsch. Head and thorax, steel-green; antennae brown; base of shoulder-covers 
white, abdomen black, anal tuft white. Forewing in the basal third of a deep metallic steel-green, in it 
a white spot on the subcosta and a smaller one on the inner-marginal vein; the distal two thirds are metallic 
copper-red, towards the base suffused with blue; the costal and distal margins black. Hindwing in the basal 
half snow-white, distally and at the proximal margin jet-black. Length of forewings: 1 3V 2 mm. Mount Goliath, 
Dutch New Guinea (February). 
