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SQUAMOSA; SUSICA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
placerodes. 
jerruginea. 
oeellata. 
pallida. 
flaviceps. 
sinensis. 
formosana. 
fusca. 
malayana. 
pannosa. 
P. placerodes Trnr. (90 f). Body greyish-brown, tibiae and tarsi of prolegs with snow-white spots at 
the ends. Forewing whitish-grey, strewn with blackish scales, with an oblique brown line from x / 3 of the inner 
margin to % of the costal margin, extending through a whitish area in the +, distally bordered with white in 
the $. Apical area greyish-brown in the + whitish in the + rectilinearly defined inside. Hindwing pale grey. 
Expanse of wings: 48—60 mm. North Queensland, March-April. 
67. Genus: Squamosa B.-Bak. 
Likewise allied with Susica, the posterior cell-angle of the hindwing projects scarcely, palpi projecting 
considerably beyond the frontal tuft, otherwise as the preceding genus. 
S. ferrughiea B.-Bak. (88 e). Forewing variegatedly rusty red, the marginal area is bordered by a 
violettish-brown subterminal line, which is very convex basad and strongly widened towards the centre of the 
wing, and exhibits traces of a more ochreous ground-colour with darker veins. At the cross-vein there is a 
hyaline spot which is continued in a curved row of hyaline spots to 2 / 5 of the inner margin, the hyaline spots 
being sometimes yellowish. Hindwing pinkish-white, rust-coloured towards the margin, the dark red cross¬ 
vein dot being particularly distinct beneath, by which the species is easily discernible. Expanse of wings: 
30—35 mm. New Guinea. 
S. ocellata Mr. (88 e). Forewing brown, lighter towards the margin, with a fine black subterminal line 
which bears a dent at vein 8 towards the base. Between 1 c and 6, on the outside of the cell, there is an ocellus 
of a dull lustrous blue inside, purple brown outside, with a light centre and crossed by a golden transverse 
line. Hindwing from brown to grey. $ paler. Expanse of wings: 30—45 mm. India. — Thorax with projecting 
hairs, the other structure similar to that of jerruginea. 
68 . Genus: Susica Wlcr. (Tadema Wkr.) 
Antenna of very long bipectinated almost to the end, then suddenly bare. Palpi projecting beyond 
the frontal tuft, extremely long in the $ as in Hyphorma. Posterior tibiae with two pair of spurs. Forewing: 
7—9 stalked, 10 separated from that stalk arises freely from the cell, discocellular vein bifurcated. Hindwing: 
6 + 7 stalked, 8 connected with the anterior edge of the cell before the middle by a cross-vein, posterior angle 
of the cell projects very far towards the margin beyond the anterior angle. Thorax with a high tuft between 
the tegulae. The forms described as species may be only races of 1 or 2 species. 
S. pallida Wkr. Body brownish, mixed with yellowish. Forewing very lustrous light brown, with a 
brown oblique line before the apex towards the inner margin near the base, a dark streak on the cross-vein, 
somewhat nearer to the apex there is a subterminal line projecting basad below the costal margin and vanishing 
towards the tornus, a black dot near the centre of the interior line between both. Hindwing blackish-brown. 
A silvery longitudinal streak is often on 1 a and 2 of the forewing. Expanse of wings: 25—40 mm. India. 
S. flaviceps Hmps. is presumably only a form of pallida : head and thorax sulphur-coloured, with a brown 
dorsal streak, a much less distinct transverse line, the area between them browner, ground-colour more reddish- 
brown. Hindwing red-brown with a slight pink tinge. Expanse of wings: 34—40 mm. Assam. 
S. sinensis Wkr. Extremely similar to pallida, but with broader fore wings, a less projecting apex, more 
grey, with hardly any lustre. Hindwing blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 28—35 mm. Described from North 
China, from where I have never seen it; South China. 
S. formosana Wil. (88 e) is probably only a race of sinensis. Somewhat larger on an average, with more 
distinct transverse lines, the rest of the forewing likewise almost dull. Expanse of wings: 30—40 mm. Formosa, 
common. 
S. fusca Mats, seems to be an extremely blackened form of formosana (88 e). Forewing almost uni- 
colourecl blackish-brown, the dark two transverse lines are lighter here. Central dot not visible. Expanse of 
wings: 30 mm. Formosa. I saw only one specimen which was taken together with specimens of formosana. 
S. malayana sp. n. is discernible from the preceding species by the ochreous wings. Forewing with 
more or less predominant ochreous ground-colour and little lustre, lines as in pallida, but the interior line less 
distinct than the subterminal line, central dot often small. Hindwing ochreous, rarely dusted somewhat blackish. 
Expanse of wings: 25—35 mm. Sumatra, Borneo, Malacca. type from Deli (Berlin State Museum). 
S. pannosa Sn. (88 e). Forewing dark violettish-brown, more yellowish only at the inner margin. 
Interior transverse line mostly quite indistinct. Hindwing ochreous. Expanse of wings: 25—35 mm. — Larva 
green, with a bluish-green dorsal line edged with orange and forming one spot in front and two spots behind; 
it lives on species of Musa. Java, Borneo, Sumatra. 
