Publ. 10. VI. 1031. 
MAHANTA; SCOPELODES. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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P. diducta Sn. (85 k). Forewing dark chocolate, with an almost straight yellowish submarginal oblique 
line mostly not quite reaching the costal margin and despatching a longitudinal ray below the apex to the 
margin, opposite it a short streak towards the base; hindwing dark grey. Expanse of wings: 20—23 mm. 
Larva varying from grey to brownish-red, with brownish-red appendages set with prickles. Dorsum with 
3 pair of yellow spots, the central pair being larger and orange inside. It lives on Musa, Michelia, Nephelium, 
Eugenia and Cocos. Java, Borneo. 
30. Genus : Mahanta Mr. 
Palpi moderately long, appressed upcurved, scarcely reaching the vertex. Antennae of $ with a short 
row of pectinations. Hind tibiae with short terminal spurs. Margin of forewing concave below the apex, 6 from 
the same base or stalked with the stalked 7—10. 7 arises after 10. 11 straight, not bent. 6 + 7 of hindwing 
stalked, 8 approximating the anterior edge of the cell in its whole course, connected with it by a cross-vein 
shortly before the end, despatching numerous small cross-veins to the costa. 
M. quadrilinea Mr. (85 k). Thorax light grey, with a dark median line, costal margin and tegulae, 
abdomen red-brown. Tegulae with a light transverse streak. Forewing brownish ochreous, silvery grey towards 
the inner margin, with 2 curved brown parallel transverse lines. Hindwing brownish ochreous. Expanse of 
wings: 52 mm. Sikkim, very rare. 
31. Genus: Seopelotles Ww. 
Antenna of <$ bipectinate in the basal half. Palpus with extraordinarily long 2nd and 3rd joints, the 
latter with a large hair-tuft at the end. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of short hardly visible spurs. 7—9 of forewing 
stalked, 10 together with this stalk from the same base, 11 straight. 6 + 7 of hindwing stalked, 8 connected 
with the anterior edge of the cell by a cross-vein near the base. 
S. venosa Wkr. (87 e). Palpal tuft white, black at the end. Forewing and thorax very dark brown, 
dusted with silvery grey scales. Hindwing orange at the abdominal margin (in the $ also in the basal half), 
marginal part blackish, with orange veins. Abdomen orange, with black transverse bands and a black apex. 
In f. aurogrisea Mr. the forewing is light brown. Expanse of wings: 50 (d) to 75 (£) mm. — Larva yellow 
beneath, green above, with 2 rows of large, densely spined appendages, a red, white and blue transverse stripe 
on the 8th segment'and a black anal spot, polyphagous on coffee, rose etc. India, Ceylon. The South-Chinese 
race: — kwangtungensis subsp. nov. (87 e) has a pure white palpal tuft and greyer forewdngs; hindwing with 
paler veins. — brunnea form. nov. has also light brown forewings. Kwang-tung, May—August. <§, $ types from 
Liu-ping (Dr. Mell leg., in the Berlin State Museum). 1 ^ from Assam in the Tring Museum, 2 <§<$ from 
Burma in the British Museum; it may be that this race is a distinct species. 
S. testacea Btlr. (87 e). Palpal tuft white, blackish at the end. Forewing light brown, uniformly dusted 
greyish silvery, hindwing orange, more or less greyish towards the margin, where the veins are yellow in 
the <$. Expanse of wings: 45—70 mm. India, Ceylon. — The insular race malayana subsp. nov. has a somewhat 
more reddish-brown tinge on the forewing which may turn blackish-brown in nigricans form. nov. (Sumatra), 
the hindwings being predominantly wood-brown instead of orange. Java, Sumatra, o type from Gedeh (Berlin 
State Museum). 
S. albipalpalis sp. n. (87 g). Palpal tuft pure white. Forewing dark blackish-brown, uniformly strewn 
with silvery grey scales as in venosa. Hindwing orange at the inner margin, otherwise darkened grey, veins 
not distinctly light as in venosa. Under surface blackish-brown, hindwing orange at the inner margin. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: 68 mm. Borneo. $ type from Kina Balu (Berlin State Museum). 
S. sericea Btlr. (87 f). Palpi quite uniformly light brown, forewing similar to that of testacea , but almost 
white, with a very intense gloss, ochreous margins and veins. Hindwing ochreous, more or less darkened at 
the margin. Expanse of wings: 50—60 mm. North India. 
S. tantula Swh. Similar to sericea (87 f). Forewing shorter and broader, brown, with a purple shine, 
less glossy, with an ochreous longitudinal streak on the posterior margin of the cell. Palpal tuft not darkened 
at the end, light brown. Forewing more pointed than in venosa (87 e). — The South-Chinese race melli subsp. 
nov. (87 g) is somewhat larger, forewing markedly grey on the ochreous ground, with an orange longitudinal 
streak, veins of hindwing and beneath not whitish but orange. Expanse of wings: 43—52 mm. Kwang-tung, 
between 11 and 1 o’clock at night on the lantern. § types from Lung-tao-shan (Dr. Mell, in the Berlin 
State Museum). 
S. exigua Swh. (87 f). Body and forewing ochreous fawn-colour, palpi light brown, sometimes more 
or less blackened. Forewing very gibbously ribbed. Hindwing orange. Expanse of wings: 40—55 mm.Amboina, 
Gebi. — niassica subsp. nov. (87 f) is quite similar, but it has only 3 such gibbously impressed transverse 
stripes, the exterior one of which is quite straight. Nias. $ type from Goenoeng, Sitoli (coll. Seitz). 
X 86 
diducta. 
quadri¬ 
linea. 
venosa. 
aurogrisea. 
kwang- 
tungensis. 
brunnea. 
testacea. 
malayana. 
nigricans. 
albipalpa¬ 
lis. 
sericea. 
tantula. 
melli. 
exigua. 
niassica. 
