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H. crocopera Hmps. (141). Head and thorax orange-yellow, the rest of the body brownish. The crocopera. 
pale brown forewing is lighter ochreous-yellowisli in the disc and exhibits a large, yellowish-white apical spot. 
Hindwings pale brown. New Guinea (Kapaur). 
H. micra Hmps. Head, thorax and abdomen are pale yellow; forewings orange-yellow, with indistinct, micra. 
undulate, ante- and postmedian, as well as antemarginal lines formed of dark scales. Hindwings pale yellow. 
Expanse of wings: 12 mm. Queensland. 
Another Australian species ( charopa) established by Turner is unknown to us. 
81. Genus: XParantasia Wkr. 
Some rather characteristic and similar species with black and orange-yellow wings; the long abdomen 
projects considerably beyond the anal angle. In the male the inner-marginal area of the hindwing is expanded 
and shows beneath a rough scent-scale stripe, besides at the upper cell-end an elliptical swelling and above 
at the base of the median a hair-tuft. Proboscis strong; the straightly extended palpi just project yet beyond 
the forehead; tibiae with long spin’s. On the forewing the 1st median and 3rd radial are petioled. The 1st radial 
comes from below the upper cell-angle; the 4th and 5th subcostal veins are petioled, the 3rd subcostal vein 
is absent, the 2nd comes separately from the cell, and the 1st anastomoses with the costal vein. On the 
hindwing the 1st median and 3rd radial are petioled in the $, anastomosing in the J 1 ; the middle radial vein 
is absent; the subcostal vein and 1st radial rise on a joint footstalk. 
D. pardalina Flclr. (16 c). On the black forewing there are numerous orange spots, the hindwing pardalina. 
of the exhibits a wedge-shaped, orange spot extending from the middle of the median to the margin where 
it is united with a spot at the proximal angle; the $ shows a larger spot extending from the costal margin to 
the anal angle. Sula. — celebensis subsp. nov. (= subsp. 1 Hmps.) has quite black hindwings with but celebensis. 
one minute orange spot below the 2nd median vein near the margin. Celebes. 
D. cuneiplena Wkr. ( — hieroglyphica Btlr.) (16 b as cuneilinea) is quite similar, smaller. The hindwings cuneiplena. 
are black, in the $ with 2, in the $ with but one small, orange spot. Borneo, Sumatra, Java. 
D. semiclusa Wkr. (= ochropyga Fldr.) (16 c) exhibits on the lustrous purple forewing at the costal semiclusa. 
margin two large, oblong, yellow spots and a narrow antemarginal one. The black hindwing shows in the $ a 
triangular, orange spot which is larger in the $ and extends to the margin. Ceram. 
D. goldei Druce (16 c) is somewhat larger than the following which it otherwise resembles very much; goldei. 
it is discernible by two yellow longitudinal streaks above the proximal margin of the forewing and the large, 
round, yellow diseal spot of the hindwing. New Guinea (Port Moresby). 
D. xenodora Meyr. (16 c) is very much like goldei, smaller; the ground-colour is a deeper black xenodora. 
with a purple reflection; the yellow spots are more orange; above the proximal margin of the forewing there 
is only an orange longitudinal streak and the orange discal spot on the hindwing is irregularly quadrangular, 
on the proximal side the black ground-colour projects into it like a tooth. New Guinea. 
D. triplagiata Holl. (16 c) is easily recognized by the quite unicolorously blackish-brown hindwings; triplagiata. 
also on the forewing the 3 orange spots are rather reduced. Buru. 
D. obliqua Hmps. differs from triplagiata by its deeper black forewings with a purple reflection, and obliqua. 
by the presence of a yellow stripe above the inner-marginal vein; the oblique yellow spot extends from the 
middle of the costal margin to the distal margin, where it is somewhat expanded. Hindwings as in xenodora. 
New Guinea (Milne Bay). 
D. caerulescens Druce (16 c) has black forewings with an intense bluish-purple reflection; the base, a caerules- 
feeble stripe on the submedian fold, and an oblique postmedian spot are orange, like a discal spot on the hindwing. 
Anterior body and the 4 last abdominal rings orange. New Guinea (Fergusson Island). 
D. pervittata Hmps. Head and thorax orange-yellow with brownish antennae; abdomen black, the pervittata. 
last rings orange. Forewings brown, suffused with purple, at the base orange-yellow; this colouring is continued 
as a stripe at the costa and on the submedian fold. A postmedian, very oblique, curved band extends from the 
costal margin to vein 2 and is narrowed at both its ends. Hindwing brown with a large, orange spot from the 
middle of the costa to the submedian fold. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. South West New Guinea (Kapaur), 
