MELASTROTA; LOBOBASIS; MANOBA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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P. oophora Zell (= flavicostana Wkr.) (16 a) has deep purple-brown forewings which are yellowish- oophora. 
white at the base, costal margin and distal margin. Hindwings light ochreous-yellow, in the $ brownish-black. 
Widely distributed from Assam through the whole of India, Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, to Java. The larva, 
according to Piepers, is black, watered with a lighter or darker green, with short black hair. It lives on mosses 
and lichens. It pupates in the moss or in a wide-meshed web, yielding the imago after 1C days. 
P. dona Swinh. is somewhat like the preceding. Head and thorax ochreous. Abdomen more ochreous- dona. 
grey. Forewing purple-brown with a yellow basal area, a yellow, angular costal spot and a similar apical margin. 
Hindwing in the basal half whitish, distally purple-brownish. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Queensland (Coomoo). 
97. Genus: Melastrota Hmps. 
Very closely allied to the preceding, differing by somewhat longer palpi and long tibia! spurs. On the 
forewing the 3rd subcostal vein is present, and the <$ exhibits beneath in the anterior cell-half and subcostally 
above it a black scent-scale cover. On the hindwing the upper median and the middle radial are absent, so is 
the scent-scale spot. 
M. nigrisquamata Swinh. Head and thorax ochreous. Wings above unmarked, monotonously ochreous- nigrisqua- 
grey. Under surface lighter with broad, grey marginal bands on both wings, occupying almost the whole distal 
half; at the base of the costal margin of the forewing a black diffuse spot. Legs and body beneath dull yellow. 
Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Queensland (Coomoo). 
98. Genus: I^obobasis Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding by erect palpi, the petioled rise of the 1st median and 3rd radial on 
the forewing, the 2nd subcostal vein rising separately, in the a rough-haired, round scent-scale spot below 
the base of the costa and behind it a curved row of rough hairs as far as the proximal margin. Hindwings similar 
as in the preceding, but without an excision. 
L. niveimaculata Hmps. (16 a). The red-brown forewing shows white spots below the base of the niveimacu- 
costa, and near the proximal margin, costal margin and distal margin yellow spots. Hindwings yellowish- 
white. The $ shows a triangular yellow spot in the middle of the costal margin, the apex of which is situate 
at the median. Hindwings darker. Sikkim, Bhutan, Perak, Sumatra, Java. 
99. Genus: Manoba Wkr. 
Like the preceding, but the <$ has serrate antennae with tufted ciliae, and no scent-scale spots, the 
1st median and 3rd radial are unpetioled on the fore-and hindwings. Small, mostly insignificantly coloured 
species, formerly denominated Stictane Hmps. Nearly all the species have been recently discovered from New 
Guinea, their types being in England. 
M. rufotincta Rothseh. Head white, antennae and thorax greyish-brownish, collar and shoulder-covers rufoiinda. 
at the base white; abdomen yellowish-reddish. Forewings cinnamon-grey, the basal two fifths of the costal 
margin greyish-white, the distal three fifths chestnut-red; between the median and proximal margin there is 
an indistinct, irregular, blackish-red spot; in the marginal quarter a transverse row of black clots and at the 
margin small reddish spots. Hinclwing reddish yellowish-grey, at the margin darker. Length of forewings: 
10y a mm. Mount Goliath and Biagi (New Guinea). 
M. lactogrisea Rothseh. Head and thorax yellowish-white, abdomen drab. Forewings yellowish- lactogrisea. 
white, a postmedian, wedge-shaped, grey spot, at its apex 2 yellow spots close behind it, and between the yellow 
spots extends an indistinct transverse line; at the apex two dark spots, at the proximal angle one. Hindwings 
light drab. Length of forewings: 10 mm. Upper Setekwa River, Dutch New Guinea. 
M. albina Rothseh. Antennae, head and thorax snow-white, abdomen more grey. Forewing snow- albina. 
white with a number of indistinct, dirty brown, diffuse spots; at the costal margin behind the base an angled 
line and behind it 3 brown spots; hindwings snow-white. Length of forewings 7y 2 urm. Angabunga River, 
British New Guinea. 
