OXYPLAX; LIMACONTIA; SPATULIFIMBRIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
719 
wings: 17—22 mm. — Larva thickened before the middle, forming a protuberance with two points, from ochre 
to dark brown, of a variable colouring and marking, with longitudinal lines or dots, sometimes with a few white 
or yellow lateral spots. Java. — According to Snellen, the species only bears terminal spurs on the posterior 
tibiae as in trima ; if that is the case, it would have to be ranged under another genus. 
D. nemacera Hmps. Dark brown, mixed with grey. Forewing strewn with black scales, with an oblique, nemacera. 
indistinct black transverse band from the costal margin beyond the middle to the centre of the inner margin, 
and a feebly dentate dark postmedian line which is distally edged with grey. Hindwing blackish. Fringe speckled 
light and dark. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. North India. 
D. luticrista Tams (89 i). Brown, forewing darker greyish-brown in the ceil, light brown below the cell luticrista. 
in the inner marginal area as far as % or as far as vein 2, 2 black dots at the cell-end, three brown, more or 
less distinct dots before the margin. Hindwing dark brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 19—21 mm. South India. 
85. Genus: ©xyplax Hmps. 
Very similar to the preceding genus, palpi porrect, 4 and 5 of fore wing always distantly separated, 
vein 2 arises basad from the middle of the origin between 10 and 11. 8 of hindwing is connected with the 
anterior edge of the cell at x / 3 . Antennae of $ long bipectinate to the end. 
0. ochracea Mr. (89 i). Light red-brown, forewing with traces of a blackish oblique line at the cell-end ochracea. 
and below the cell, with a strongly curved white transverse line from the apex to % of the inner margin, dusted 
with blackish outside, often as far as the margin. Abdomen and hindwing brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 
16—26 mm. — Larva pale green, whitish above, with 2 rows of black dots, with 4 rows of spatulate spined 
appendages, the anterior and posterior ones red. India, Ceylon to Borneo, Formosa, South China to Shanghai. 
0. fulvata Hmps. (89 i). Antennae plain, thickened and flattened. Fore wing with a dent of scales fulvata. 
before the centre at the inner margin. Body brownish-red, dusted with blackish. Forewing coppery red, basal 
area dark brown as far as the slantingly bent indistinct dark lateral line. Marginal area blackish, broader at the 
costal margin, narrow at the tornus. Fringe speckled light and dark. Hindwing blackish-grey. Expanse of 
wings: 18 mm. Ceylon. (It probably belongs to another genus.) 
0. tenebrosa sp. n. (89 i) is allied to ochracea, thorax and forewing rusty brownish, densely strewn with tenebrosa. 
brown scales, especially in the <J. A blackish straight oblique line extends from the apex (in the $ a little 
before it) to % of the inner margin. Abdomen and hindwing black, with rusty yellow fringe. Expanse of wings 
25—30 mm. Ceylon, September and December. and $ types in the British Museum. 
86. Genus : T^imacontla gen. nov. 
Near the preceding genus, 8 of hindwing connected with the anterior edge of the cell at its centre and 
nearing it in its entire length; antenna bipectinate in its basal half, bare at the end. Type of genus: L. 
olivacea Her. 
L. olivacea sp. n. (89 k). Forewing olive in the basal half, distally bordered by a straight oblique olivacea. 
whitish line. Marginal half pale yellowish olive, parted by a broad postmedian band which is narrower at the 
costal and inner margins. Hindwing pale reddish-grey. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Salomons, in March. £ type 
from New Georgia in the Tring Museum. - Habitus very much like that of an Acontiina. 
87. Genus: $patiilii'illll>ria Hmps. (Spatulicraspeda Hmps.) 
Antenna of <$ long bipectinate, bare at the end. Palpi very shortly porrect. Posterior tibia with 2 pair 
of spurs. Forewing: 7—9 stalked, 10 separated from them, 11 slightly bent. Hindwing: 6 + 7 stalked, 8 ana¬ 
stomoses with the anterior edge of the cell only after the centre of the cell. 
Sp. castaneiceps Hmps. (89 h). $ violettish-black, anterior body brownish ochreous. Forewing with castanei- 
a dark transverse band across the cross-vein and a dark submarginal band which begins before the apex and ce P s - 
extends obliquely to the margin across the tornus. Hindwing black, with yellow fringe. $ yellowish-grey, 
forewing with dark cross-vein spots, the submarginal line terminates at the tornus, but it is strongly convergent 
with the margin. Hindwing dark grey, with yellowish fringe. Expanse of wings: 13—21 mm. Ceylon. — inso- insoliia. 
lita subsp. nov. $ has more reddish ochreous forewings with deep violettish-black fringes, the submarginal line is 
almost parallel to the margin, the hindwing is greyish ochreous with similar fringe. India. ($ type from 
Trichinopoli in the Berlin State Museum.) — opprimata subsp. nov. : the dark submarginal line of the forewing opprimala. 
is parallel to the margin, terminating at the inner margin before the tornus, hindwing black, with black fringe. 
$ reddish ochreous, with a submarginal line which is likewise parallel to the margin, hindwing blackish-grey. 
