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ECNOMOCTENA; SETORA. By Dr. M. Heking. 
iaiwana. 
uniformis. 
nielli. 
brachyopa. 
grisea. 
hemitonia. 
nitens. 
suberecta. 
kwang- 
tungensis. 
postornata. 
hampsoni. 
I. taiwana Wil. Very similar to melli (88 i); forewing red-brown, with a dull white silvery oblique line 
from the apex to the centre of the inner margin, a dull coppery submarginal band only leaves a narrow purple 
brown marginal area. Hind wing brown. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Formosa. The South-Chinese race: —- 
uniformis sp. n. is larger (27 mm), darker, with very faded markings and a hardly visible white oblique line. 
Hindwing blackish-brown. type from Lung-tao-shan, taken by Dr. Mell on the lantern on March 31st 
(Berlin State Museum). 
I. melli sp. n. (88 i) differs from taiwana in the dull white oblique line at the costal margin terminating 
more remote from the apex at the costal margin. Correspondingly, the coppery band which projects more 
sharply opposite the cell is more remote from the apex at the costal margin, so that the marginal area widens 
there. The $ has a more'irregular dull white oblique line, and the ground-colour of the wing is more coarsely 
scaled, whereby it resembles crispa. Expanse of wings: 22—24 mm. Kwang-tung, July-September. <$, $ types 
taken by Dr. Mell on the lantern near Mahn-tsi-shan (Berlin State Museum). 
73. Genus: (Eciiomocteiia Tmr. 
Antenna of likewise with one row of pectinations, palpi moderately long, porrect, posterior tibia 
with 2 pair of spurs. Discocellular vein of forewing bifurcated, 7—9 stalked, 10 separated from it. Hindwing: 
6 + 7 stalked, 8 anastomoses with the anterior edge of the cell near the base. Chiefly separated from the 
preceding genus by the isolated vein 10 of the forewing and the forked discocellular vein, and by the posterior 
cell-angle of the hindwing projecting strongly towards the margin. 
E. braehyopa Low. (88 i). Thorax and basal two thirds of forewing brown, the latter distally defined 
by a dark brown transverse line which is suddenly strongly broken basad below the cell-end and then proceeds 
dentately to the inner margin. Apical third grey, more or less dusted whitish, parted by a grey dentate sub¬ 
terminal line. Cross-vein with a dark brown ring filled with a lightler colour. Hindwing fed-brown. — In 
f. grisea Aur. the forewing is monotonously purely grey, with the same darker grey markings, only the ring 
at the cell-end is reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 18—24 mm. Australia. 
E. hemitonia Tmr. (88 i). Reddish-brown, forewing with a broad white transverse line from the centre 
of the inner margin to the cell. Hindwing pale brown. The $ which has not yet been described hitherto 
exhibits the white transverse line edged with black inside, with a pale dentate submarginal transverse line 
which is bordered inside by a broad blackish band. ($ type from Pt. Darwin, Berlin State Museum). Expanse 
of wings: 26 mm. North Australia, in November. 
74. Genus: Setora Wkr. 
Antenna of A basally long bipectinate, palpi moderately long, projecting, hind tibia with two pair of 
spurs. Forewing: 7—10 stalked or arising from the same basis, 7 arises after 10, 11 straight. Hindwing: cell- 
angle projecting little behind, 6 + 7 stalked, 8 anastomoses with the anterior edge of the cell near the base. 
S. nitens Wkr. (= cupreiplaga, cupreistriga, rudis Wkr.) (88 i). An easily recognizable species. Forewing 
and body from brown to violettish-grey, with a dark somewhat curved transverse line distally bordered with 
light, from 1 / 5 of the inner margin to % of the costal margin, from where an irregular lustrous coppery band 
extends to the inner margin, apical area mostly lighter, apex parted by a dark oblique line. Expanse of wings: 
26—46 mm. — Larva varying in colour from greenish-yellow to red-brown, with blue, distally yellow-edged 
dorsal spots and yellow lateral oblique streaks which are edged with black or orange, with 2 large brown tufts 
of bristles each in front and behind, and smaller light ones between them, polyphagous, doing great harm to 
cultivated plants (coffee, tea, banana, etc.). The cocoon is sometimes deposited in the soil. Common in the 
Indo-Malay regions, but it also penetrates into the south-east of the palaearctic region. 
S. suberecta sp. n. (90 f, g) is very similar to nitens (88 i), but the exterior line of the forewing is much 
more slanting, for which reason the two lines do not meet at the costal margin, but remain separated, the 
copper-brown spot beyond the second line is distinctly defined, narrower, with dark veins, ground-colour mostly 
more monotonously red-brown. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. A type from Ht. Birmanie in the Berlin State 
Museum. A $ taken by Dr. Mell near Liu-ping (Kwang-tung) may also belong to this species, but the post¬ 
median line is somewhat nearer to the first line. It it should prove to be a representative of a separate sub¬ 
species, it may be named: kwangtungensis subsp. nov. 
S. postornata Hmps. ( = sinensis Mr.) (88 i) is also very similar to nitens, the second transverse line of 
the forewing is here also more slanting, the coppery border distally to it is feeble and indistinct, but expanded 
at the tornus into a distinct trapezoid spot. The ground-colour of the fore wing is grey in the nomenclatural 
form, without reddish dusting, whilst in f. hanipsoni Strd. it is suffused with reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 
30—35 mm. West China, India. 
