Publ. 4. I 'Ill. 1932. 
VERNIFILIA; HERDONIA. By M. Gaede. 
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incudigera. 
taprobana. 
bifene- 
sirata. 
bipuncta. 
laevis. 
browner, the hyaline sj)ot on the hindwing is very large. — incudigera Pagst. is intensely reddish, with a distinct 
dark median band which is broad at the costal margin and ends pointed at the inner margin. The hyaline spot 
on the hindwing is as large as in fenestrata. — taprobana Mr. is browner than incudigera, the dark median band 
the same. Two small hyaline dots on the hind wing. In the same district, however, we also meet with quite fiery 
red specimens of which one specimen each with and without a large hyaline spot on the hindwing are 
figured in Illustr. Br. Mus. 9, pi. 172. — bifenestrata Smpr. (91 c), from Luzon, has a reddish-brown body 
and inner halves of the wings, the distal halves being darker and proximally bordered by a dark band; apical 
area lighter, edged with dark on its interior side. Two fine hyaline dots on the hindwing. — bipuncta Warr. 
is allied to siculoides, but the ground-colour is more golden yellow, the marking bright reddish-yellow. Hindwing 
with two hyaline dots. Perak. — laevis Warr. is similar to fenestrata Mr. Forewing bright rusty red with dark striae. 
The oblique olive brown transverse band is angled and widened in the cell, also broader at the inner margin. Hind¬ 
wing similarly marked. The large hyaline spot rounded inside, with two tips outside. The hyaline spot is said to be 
differently shaped in fenestrata, according to Warren, but it is the same in the type. — A specimen from Preanger, 
from the Coll. Stattdinger, has dark red-brown wings. A small round hyaline spot on the forewing, below it 
orange as far as the inner margin. The following band of the ground-colour, shaped as in laevis, behind it as 
far as the margin orange with a dark subapical line. The hyaline spot of the hindwing is large, quadrangular. 
The basal area before it is dark red-brown like the space behind it from the costal margin to vein 5 and very 
narrowly the distal margin, the rest being orange. These light spots with red-brown striae on both wings. 
It is surely identical with rufiflava Hmps. (91c) from Singapore. 
B. albifurca Hmps. Body red-brown, the anterior half of the abdomen pale ochreous, a tuft of scales 
on the fifth segment. Wings red-brown, the basal area and the centre of the distal area ochreous in both 
wings. Forewing with a Y-shaped white median band and 2 white dots at the costal margin near the apex. 
Both wings with dark striae. 3 24 mm. Sikkim. 
D. viridatrix Wkr. (= siccifolia Mr.) (91 c). Body and wings yellowish-green with dark fine transverse 
lines. A yellow spot at the end of the cell, yellowish also behind the distal line at the costal margin. Hindwing 
with a hyaline spot at the cell-end and an indistinct distal and submarginal line. We figure the type of 
siccifolia which is somewhat different, e. g. the hyaline spot is merely a fine line. 25—28 mm. Sikkim, Ceylon. 
D. pennitarsis Hmps. (93 a). Fiery orange-red. Forewing with dark reticulate lines. Interior line 
bent, the median line excurved in the cell, the distal line more intensely black, straight, only somewhat angular 
below the costal margin and fused with a shadow proceeding from behind the centre of the costal margin. 
Hindwing with dark reticulate streaks, the hyaline spot reniform, edged with dark. A dark line from the centre 
of the costal margin to the anal angle, where it is divided, and a less distinct line from behind the centre 
of the costal margin to the distal margin at vein 4. 36 mm. Sumatra, Borneo. We figure a specimen from 
the Coll. Pagenstecher from Darjeeling, which differs in the ground-colour, but which seems to belong to 
this species according to the linear marks. 
4. Genus: Vernifilia Schultze. 
As plumply structured as the preceding genus. Distal margin of hindwing slightly concave below 
the apex, costal margin straight. Veins 9 + 10 on a short stalk, the others separate. Hindwing without angles 
and lobes. Veins 4 and 5 from the lower cell-angle. Vein 7, according to the description, from the upper cell- 
angle, but according to the figure a little farther basad and well separated from vein 6. 
V. hyalipuncta Schultze. Body and wings reddish ochreous, the latter somewhat lighter at the base, hyalipunc- 
everywhere reticulations of darker lines. A median row of 4 hyaline spots, 2 of which are small below T vein 2, ia - 
2 larger ones between veins 2 and 4. Marginal line dark brown, fringe grey. Fringe of hindwing dark brown 
basally, white apically. The $ shows the fine streaks more arranged in the shape of continuous lines. 35 mm. 
Mindanao. Rhodoneura myrtaea Dry. (91 k) seems to be very similar. 
rufiflava. 
albifurca. 
viridatrix. 
pennitar¬ 
sis. 
5. Genus: Herdonia Wkr. 
Palpi short, erect. Antennae of 3 with one row of short pectinations. Forewing slightly concave at 
the centre of the costal margin, then convex, apex pointed. All the veins separate. Hindwing with a projecting 
apex, distal margin almost straight. Veins 4 and 5, and 6 and 7 arise distantly separated, a forked partition- 
vein in the cell. Type: osacesalis Wkr. 
H. osacesalis Wkr. This species having been dealt with in Vol. II, p. 372, pi. 50 e, is distributed in osacesalis. 
China, India and Burma. — In one specimen the exact habitat of which is not stated the 3 dark double lines 
on the hindwing are almost coalescent, only the median one is somewhat more broadly split open at the 
inner margin. — Candida Warr. (i. 1. '?) has milky white fore wings, except a red-brown spot at the margin near 
vein 2, hindwing normal. From New Guinea; probably only an abnormal diminutive form. — papuertsis Watr. papuensis. 
(91 d) is presumably only a form of osacesalis. Forewing olive grey, some isolated white spots above the inner 
margin. Three dark lines, partly reticularly connected, proceed from the costal margin behind %, paler between 
them. The lines are somewhat darker between the veins 4 and 5, then forked towards the distal margin between 
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