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HYPHORMA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
nilens. S. nitens B.-Bak. (87 f) is very similar to exigua, perhaps only a race of it. very small, recognizable 
by the whitish head and thorax. Forewing more violettish-brown, $ with darker, brownish-orange hindwings. 
Expanse of wings: 30 (<$) to 60 ($) mm. New Guinea and adjacent islands, North Australia. 
magnified. S. magnifica sp. n. (87 f). c? and $ differ little in size. Palpi light brown. Forewing glossy light brown, 
sometimes a little whitish at the costal margin, distal margin less oblique than in the preceding species, the 
tornus less rounded. Hindwing whitish-yellow. Under surface yellowish, more or less tinged brown at the costal 
margin. Expanse of wings: 45—50 mm. Celebes. + $ types from Minahassa (Berlin State Museum). This 
nigrescens. species has likewise a form: — nigrescerts form. nov. with violet-blackish forewings. 
pallivittata. S. pallivittata Sn. (87 h). Similar in the habitus to testacea (87 e), forewing with an obliquely bent 
whitish band bordered with dark, from the apex to the centre of the inner margin, less distinct in the §. 
Hindwing yellow. Palpal tuft blackish at the end. Expanse of wings: 40—70 mm. — Larva green, with small 
dull blue spots, 4 rows of spined appendages, the last two segments with one black lateral spot each; on 
Musa-species. 
anihcla. S. anthela Swli. (87 f). Terminal tuft of palpus white, black at the end. Both wings grey, hindwing 
broadly deep orange-yellow at the inner margin. Veins nowhere lighter. Separated thereby and by the scarcely 
grooved fore wings from the similar testacea. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. South India to Borneo. 
1 1nicolor. S. unicolor Ww. (= minax Wkr. ? micaea Wkr., palpalis Wkr., palpigera H.-Schajj.) (87 g and Vol. II, 
pi. 50 b). Palpi and forewings uniformly rusty red, slightly dusted with silvery grey, the much smaller with 
traces of a darker longitudinal streak. Hindwing orange. Expanse of wings: 35—60 mm. — Larva metallic 
blue, but densely covered with green spined appendages, with an orange-black-blue transverse stripe on the 
6th and 7th segments, the ground-colour appearing in several rows of sjDots; it lives on species of Eugenia, 
Phaseolus and Nephelium. From North India across Java, Borneo to the Moluccas. 
lutea. S. lutea sp. n. (87 h). Quite similar to unicolor, but fore wing monotonously lemon-olive yellow, hind¬ 
wing pale yellow. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Java (2 in the British Museum). 
vulpina. S. vulpina Mr. (87 g). Similar to lutea , palpal tuft blackish at the end, forewing not rusty red but 
purely brown, grey at the margins. Hindwing blackish, veins and base yellowish. Apex of forewing less rounded 
than in lutea. Under surface blackish, with yellow veins, ochreous in lutea. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. North 
India, very rare. 
contracta. S. contracta Wkr. (87 g and Vol. II, pi. 50 b). Palpal tuft blackish at the end. Wings unicoloured dark 
grey ($) or blackish (J), abdomen ochreous, with rows of blackish spots above, predominantly blackish in 
the + Expanse of wings: 24 (<$) to 40 (+) mm. Described from North China, but also discovered by Dr. Mell 
in Kwang-tung (Lo-fao-shan), April—May and October, also in North India; cf. Vol. II, p. 340. 
ursina. S. ursina Btlr. (87 h). (The $ was described as $.) $ similar to that of contracta , but forewing light 
brown, relatively larger, the forewings dusted more brown are broader and exhibit a blackish longitudinal 
blotch in the cell almost to the apex. Fringe with an orange basal line, abdomen chiefly orange. Expanse of 
wings: 30—35 mm. — Larva on Diospyros. India, numbers of it bred by Dr. Mell near Wu-tsung (Kwang- 
tung), in June. 
dinawa. S. dimawa B.-Bak. (87 h). Palpal tuft blackish at the end. Both wings greyish-black, hindwing with 
a very prominent orange inner-marginal area extending to the posterior edge of the cell. Under surface similar. 
Expanse of wings: ($) 35 mm. New Guinea. The $ which probably belongs to this species and has not yet 
been described is quite similar to that of albipalpalis (87 g), also somewhat like venosa, but the veins of the 
hindwing are not so conspicuous. Forewing blackish-brown or dark brown, hindwing varying from grey to 
yellowish ochre, veins ochreous. Palpal tuft black at the end. $ type from the Nina Valley, New Guinea 
(Tring Museum). Hampson (in my opinion wrongly) places this species as a synonym to tantula Swh. (1910). 
32. Genus: HlyphoB'Bttia Wkr. 
Palpi extremely prolonged as in the preceding genus, of more than fourfold the diameter of the eye, 
but without hair-tufts at the ends, laterally compressed. Antenna of $ pectinated basally or to the end, of $ 
plain. Hind tibiae with 1 or 2 pair of spurs which are scarcely visible in the + Anterior tibiae with a silvery 
spot. Discocellular vein of forewing forked, 7—9 stalked, 10 separated from them, 11 straight. Discocellular 
vein of hind wing plain, 6 + 7 stalked, 8 anastomosing with the anterior edge of the cell before the middle, 
or connected by cross-vein. 
minax. H. minax Wkr. (Vol. II, pi. 50 b). Forewing dark brown, base darker, with an oblique blackish line 
before the apex to the inner margin before the middle; besides, a subterminal line extends from the apex 
curved to the tornus. Hindwing red-brown. Expanse of wings: 26—36 mm. In Vol. II (50 b) the type from 
