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OEONISTIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
gigas. A. gigas Heyl. (15 e). The hindwings are unicolorously orange-yellow; the brown forewing has a 
yellowish-white inner-marginal stripe. Java. 
rufifrons. A. rufifrons Moore (15 g) has an orange-yellow head and collar. The costal margin of the brown forewing 
is light yellow like the proximal margin; hindwing orange-yellow; the $ has much narrower costal-marginal and 
virago, inner marginal bands. Sikkim. — subsp. virago Rothsch. <$ differs from typical rufifrons by the sooty-black, not 
greyish wood-coloured forewings and the orange hindwings. The $ differs by an orange-buff longitudinal band 
below vein 1, which is present like in the Horisha in Formosa. 
semirufa. A. semirufa Hmps. (15 h) differs from rufifrons by quite dark brown forewings, only the proximal 
margin being narrowly orange. Assam. 
albocinerea. A. albocinerea Moore (15 i). Forewing white with a silky lustre; the extreme costal margin, proximal 
margin and fringes, as well as the hindwings brownish-grey. Abdomen greyish-brown with a yellowish anal 
sericeipen- tuft. In the $ the hindwings are white. The head of the type is light yellow. — ab. sericeipennis Moore has 
nis - a blackish-brown head, and the <$ hindwing is white with a brown apical spot, whilst in the $ it is all white. 
Sikkim; Java. 
pmsena. A. prasena Moore (26 b). Head and thorax metallic bluish-black, collar, chest and hips orange. Ab¬ 
domen bluish-black, towards the base grey, anal tuft and ventral side orange. The forewing is white, the veins 
striped metallic blue; the basal half of the cell and the costal margin as far as the cell- end dark; at the transverse 
vein and at the apex blackish-blue spots. Hindwing white with a black border, towards the apex expanded 
into a black spot with vein-stripes. Himalaya, Sikkim, Assam. 
voltzi. A. voltzi Weym. This large species, described as Tripura, is on its head and thorax lustrous blackish- 
blue, of which colour is also the abdomen above, only the 3 first rings being above covered with dark brown 
hair. The 1st palpal joint, proboscis and collar are orange, so are the chest, femora, and the underside of the 
abdomen. The forewing is unmarked dark bluish-grey with a blue reflection. Hindwing white, at the costal 
margin broadly, towards the proximal angle taperingly bordered by bluish grey, with an indistinct proximal 
bordering. Expanse of wings: 57 mm. Sumatra. 
alboluteola. A. alboluteola Rothsch. Forehead and antennae black; head and thorax yellowish-white; abdomen 
yellowish-red. Forewing creamy-white; a broad, distally irregular, postmedian transverse band is steel-green 
with a purple reflection; costal-margin and fringes blackish-brown. Hindwing reddish-yellow with a sooty 
black postmedian spot. Length of forewings: 24 mm. Assam (Khasia Hills). 
ramelana. A. ramelana Moore (= quadrimaculata Moschl.) (15 i) deviates from the preceding by its purely 
white forewings and a more purple-brown transverse band which is reduced to a small spot in the $. Distributed 
restrida. and not rare from Sikkim and Assam to Borneo and Java. — ab. restricta ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) from Borneo 
obsoleta. and Java has a narrower and almost straight postdiscal band. — In ab. obsoleta nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) all the 
black is entirely absent. Java. 
virilis. A. virilis Rothsch. The $ resembles the <$ of ramelana Moore, but it has a postdiscal oblique band of 
the same width at the costa and proximal margin and quite black. Spots on the hindwings smaller. Length 
of forewings: 27 mm. Horisha in Formosa. 
bipars. A. bipars Moore (15 h). The broad, quite blackish-brown marginal part of the forewing and the ab¬ 
domen being orange-yellow towards the end separates the species from visilis. Sikkim. 
maculate. A. maculata Moore (15 h) has unicolorously light yellow forewings, and orange-yellow hindwings 
with a white margin and large black marginal spots. The $ is paler, with reduced black markings, the apical 
spot on the hindwing being quite absent. Sikkim. 
113. Genus: Oeonistis Hbn. 
Chiefly deviating from the preceding genus by the absence of the accessory cell on the forewing; the 
1st and 2nd subcostal veins come separately from the cell. Most of the forms were recently discovered in New 
Guinea. 
entella. 0. entella Cr. (— convoluta F.) (15 f). Forewing orange-yellow with a metallic green costal margin 
and 2 similar transverse bands; the middle one is expanded to a large quadrangular spot below the cell, the 
distal one runs obliquely to the distal margin and grows gradually much broader. Head and collar orange, 
delia. thorax and shoulder-covers metallic green. Formosa, Bombay, Ceylon. — subsp. delia F. (— splendens Lucas) 
