DEILEMERA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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D. evergista Cr. (30 f). On the forewing there is a large, oval spot near the base on the sooty black 
ground, a white, large, oval spot covers the cell-end, and below the bridge separating both there is another 
white spot. The hindwing is margined with dark, and on both wings there are mostly some white antemarginal 
guttiform spots. The abdomen is orange-yellow, with broad black bands. Very conspicuous is' the stunted 
anal part of the $ hindwing appearing somewhat distorted and marking folds in unprepared specimens, evergista 
is described from Amboina, but it seems also to occur frequently in other Moluccas. The spots of the forewing 
may vary in such a way that the spot above the cell-end flows together with the one below it to a broad, 
white crescentiform spot occupying almost the whole disc of the wing. This form might be separated as ab. 
unita ab. nov. and on the one hand it may be opposed to specimens with reduced white on the forewing, in 
which all the spots have disappeared except that at the cell-end, a form figured as uniplaga Swinh. (29 i) 
and originating from the Fergusson Island; on the other hand there is another form of it, in which the spots 
of the forewings are not only larger, but also increased in number (to 8) (= ab. intercisa Wkr.). — eddela 
Swinh. from Engano has a short quadrangular band at the base of the wing, an irregular one from the costa 
to the lower cell-angle, 2 small antemarginal spots and a distal stripe below vein 2; hind wing with a broad distal 
band. — mutabilis Wkr. nec Swinh. from Ternate resembles evergista, but the discal spot of the forewing is not 
bent distally, but proximally, for which reason, according to Swinhoe, both cannot be united in one species. 
D. simplex Wkr. (— cloriae Oberth.). Black, head and abdominal end yellow; vertex black, forehead 
white, dotted black. Palpi beneath at the base yellow. Abdomen otherwise brown, the segments with light 
margins. Forewing blackish-brown with white postdiscal stripes and a large, white spot situate almost in the 
centre; hindwing white, the blackish-brown marginal band broad. New Guinea. 
D. maculata Wkr. (= noviespunctata Voll.) (30 f) probably originates from Java, but it is before 
me also from Lombok. The abdomen is more intensely banded in a sooty brown, its yellow colour is more hazy 
and duller, the brown of the wings somewhat diaphanous, the marking not very precise. In the the anal 
part of the hindwing is less folded, so that the distortion is not so distinctly prominent, particularly since also 
the broad dark distal-marginal band is continued on this distorted part. The forewing shows an irregular oblique 
band, the basal wedge and a small dull spot before the middle of the distal margin white. 
D. aeres Bsd. (— mutabilis Swinh., mutabilis var. Wkr.) (30 f). This form is very closely allied to 
evergista, but it is recognizable by the abdomen being still more broadly banded black, by the basal spot being 
split into two wedges by the median, and by the discal spot of the forewing being irregularly notched on both 
sides. In the <$ hindwing the dark marginal band is broken off before the distorted anal part, and on the upper 
surface it crosses the terminal region of the median veins in the shape of dull traces of specks at most; in the 
$ it extends to the proximal margin. From various Moluccas, Batjan, Birru and Ternate. — gerra Sivinh. 
(30 g), from Talaut and also occurring in Batjan (from where the figured specimen originates), has a discal spot 
of the forewing reduced to an irregular band, and the specks of the hind wings are distinct only in the <J. — On 
the contrary, leuctra Swinh. is a form with very much increased white and an irregularly notched discal speck, 
already forming the transition to miilleri. It originates from Sangir and Talaut. — In the Amboina-form agacles 
Bsd. the white discal band of the forewing is above expanded and terminates broadly and rounded off, and 
the 2 basal spots of the forewing are fused into one large, irregular oval. — - menes Fldr. is certainly only 
a macular variety of the preceding forms; the discal band of the fore wing is very sinuous, like the margin 
of the hind wing. Amboina. 
D. miilleri Voll. (30 g) approximates the preceding, the white spot above the cell-end extends band¬ 
like from the costal margin (behind its middle) almost to the proximal margin, and is separated from the white 
basal spot only by some small spots. The anal part of the forewing is in the $ very much bulged out, and that 
of the hindwing is developed into a very large, bulging lobe. From Borneo and Sumatra. Like in the allied 
species there occur also $ specimens with very much increased white which may be developed to a complete 
network (zerenoides Btlr.) (10g) and, on the contrary, <$ specimens with a narrowed oblique band of the forewing. 
D. arctata Wkr. (— maculosa Wkr.) (30 g, h) is a very common species, chiefly from Sikkim, but 
also distributed across the whole northern parts of Indo-China and a great part of India. It is one of 
the largest species of the genus, the anal angle of the hinclwing in the only slightly bent, the brown marking 
conspicuously pale, at the margin of the hindwing a chain of dark guttiform spots. The arrangement of the 
marking on the forewing is distinctly seen from the figure. — In browni Schvltze from the Philippines the basal 
ray of the forewing is extended into a white longitudinal line broadly flowing into the white median band, and 
the dark marginal spots of the hind wing are united to an irregular band. • — albofasciata Wil. seems to me only 
to be the Formosan form of arctata ; forewing blackish-grey; below the median a white ray ending dentately. 
Behind the middle a white band with a proximal border deeply indented between the median veins and a dentate 
distal border, between the radials there is a grey spot on the band; at the ends of the veins small white spots, 
evergista. 
unita. 
uniplaga. 
intercisa. 
eddela. 
mutabilis. 
simplex. 
maculata. 
acres. 
gerra. 
leuctra. 
agacles. 
menes. 
miilleri. 
zerenoides. 
arctata. 
browni. 
albofasciata. 
