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beneath; each segment shows one brown tubercle on each side; it is densely haired black and exhibits on 
each side of the 1st segment a hair-tuft. In a thin web it changes into a brown pupa yielding the imago 
after 10 days. 
N. sambara Moore ( = intacta Wkr., chryseola Snell.) (14 d) is a large, bright orange-yellow species, sambara. 
with somewhat lighter hindwings. Borneo, Java, Sangir, Bali. 
N. xantholoma Snell. (14 e) is easily recognizable by the blackish-brown ground-colour with a spotted xaniholoma. 
orange costal margin; fringes of both wings orange-yellow. Celebes. 
N. melanistis Swinh. has, except the ochreous-yellow head, a chocolate-brown body, the abdomen melanisli 
being laterally haired ochreous-yellow. Forewing dark chocolate-brown, costa and fringes ochreous-yellow. 
Hindwing of a bright ochreous-yellow, on the distal margin a brown tint of a very variable width. Expanse 
of wings: 29 mm. Kina-balu. 
N. brunneipennis Hmps. is somewhat smaller than melanistis, and differs by the forewing being bnmnei- 
quite brown, only at the base of the costa ochreous-yellow, by unicolorously brown hindwings with a whitish pcnni*. 
costa in the B, and by an ochreous-yellow collar spotted brown. Expanse of wings: 22 to 26 mm. Moluccas 
(Batjan). 
136. Genus: Oirysoscota Hmps. 
Proboscis well developed, the erect palpi projecting but little beyond the round forehead, the 2nd joint 
hairy, the 3rd bare. Antennae with ciliary bristles; anterior femora very much expanded. Forewing long and 
narrow; 1st median and 3rd radial fused, 2nd radial absent, the 1st rising from below the upper cell-angle; 
the 3 lower subcostal veins petioled, the two upper ones separate, the 1st anastomosing with the costal. Hind¬ 
wings as in the allies. 
C. vagivitta Wkr. (14c) is blackish-brown with 3 orange spots; head, collar and bo.se of shoulder- ragivUia. 
covers orange. Mysol; Ceram; South West New Guinea (Kapaur). 
C. auranticeps Hmps. (14 d) is unicolorously blackish-brown, only the head, collar and base of shoulder- auranti- 
covers orange. New Guinea, Fergusson Island. ccps ’ 
C. flavostrigata B.-Balc. Head yellow, with a small black spot in the middle, palpi yellowish with fiavostri- 
a black terminal joint; thorax dark brown, collar and slioulder-covers yellow; abdomen dark brown, beneath ( J aia - 
at the end yellowish. Forewing dark greyish-brown with a narrow, yellow median longitudinal stripe somewhat 
expanded behind the cell and then turning obliquely up to the costa; margin dark yellow isb. Hindwings blackish- 
grey. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Aroa River (March, April). 
C. albomaculata Rothsch. Head and thorax dark wood-coloured brown, antennae light brown; abdomen albomacu- 
dark grey, anal tuft yellowish. Forewing wood-coloured brown with a bronze reflection, in the cell a large, , " ,a - 
oval, yellowish-white spot. Hindwing sooty dark grey. Biagi (British New Guinea). 
C. lacteiplaga Rothsch. Head, margins of the collar and of the shoulder-covers yellowish-white, the lacteiplaga. 
rest of the thorax and abdomen greyish-black, anal tuft creamy, antennae brown. Forewing creamy-white, 
a large spot below the cell, a spot in the cell and a large spot in the apical third wood-coloured brown. Hindwing 
blackish-grey. The brown spots on the forewing may flow together forming two longitudinal bands. —- ab. 
conjuncta Rothsch. In the $ the head, margins of the collar and shoulder-covers are golden, the anal tuft black, conjuncia. 
the whole forewing brown with a bronze reflection, at the cell-end a yellowisli-wbite spot and another, subcostal 
spot behind it. Length of forewings: £ 12, ^ 14 mm. Oetakwa River. 
137. Genus: P]iaeo|>hlcbosia Hmpi 
Distinguished from the preceding on the forewing bv the upper radial being petioled with the lower 
subcostal veins. On the hindwing the subcostal is fused with the 1st radial. 
P. furcifera Wkr. (= trifurcata Wkr.) (14 d) is orange-yellow with black-striped veins; palpal terminal furcijem. 
joint, antennae, vertex, and stripes on the collar and thorax black. Tasmania. 
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