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D. misana Moore (47 a) brown. Forewing with an irregular, whitish area extending from the middle misana. 
of the base of the wing to the middle of the wing, where it is expanded and extends also towards the apex, sending 
besides a branch towards the anal angle, enclosing thereby some indistinct brown marks. A dark brown zigzag¬ 
line extends from the anal angle towards the middle of the wing. A submarginal row of dark brown spots inside 
margined with white. Hindwing light brown with a lighter margin. Body and extremities brown. Expanse 
of wings: 34 mm. Java. — The larva lives on Zea mays L., it is long-haired, golden yellow with a broad, 
black dorsal longitudinal band showing 4 dense, light grey brushes; dorsum and sides with flesh-coloured, 
white-haired protuberances. Pupa yellowish-brown, in a very dense, yellowish-grey web intermixed with hairs; 
it rests for 9 days. 
D. chalana Moore (38 b) $ dark brown; it is brightest in the marginal area. Forewing with a broad, chalana. 
zigzag-margined, greenish white band right across the middle and along the posterior margin and round the 
apex, as well as a submarginal, brown zigzag-line. Hindwing light brown. Antennae, legs, head, thorax anteriorly 
dark brown. Abdomen and thorax posteriorly light brown. Legs brown with grey spots. Expanse of wings: 
40 mm. Java. — costiplaga Wkr. (38 b). brown. Palpi blackish, exceedingly broad, densely haired. Thorax costiplaga. 
on each side blackish. Abdomen with black scaled protuberances. Forewing with a blackish diffuse patch 
in the basal half of the costal area and a blackish costal streak nearer at the apex, besides with four irregular 
distal lines composed of black, wedge-shaped marks, the fourth being submarginal and more regular than 
the others. Fringes with small blackish spots. Length of body: 10.2 mm. Length of wings: 24% mm. Sarawak. 
D. arizana Wilem. <$ antennae reddish-brown, with a whitish shaft. Head and thorax whitish-grey, arizana. 
abdomen greyish-brown, at the base lighter. Forewing whitish-grey, in some parts shaded darker, with a 
reniform spot encircled by black, an indistinct black subbasal line, a blackish double antemedian line, a 
black, sinuate postmedian line proximally tinted lighter, distally darker, a black, sinuate and interrupted sub¬ 
marginal line. Hindwing dai’k, in the area of the posterior margin brown, with a darker discal spot and lighter 
fringes. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. It may be a form of D. taiwana. Formosa, from an altitude of 7300 ft. 
(Arizan) in August. 
D. (?) cruda Wilem. $ superficially resembles D. mendosa Hbn. (Vol. II, t. 22 d). Body whitish, faintly cruda. 
hued brown. Forewing whitish, hued light brown, in the marginal area shaded darker, with traces of a dark 
brown subbasal line below the costal margin, followed by an oblong, dark brown spot. Hindwing whitish. Expanse 
of wings: 37 mm. Kanshirei, Formosa. — Larva found on March 8th, crept out on April 6th. 
D. olivacea Wilem. Head and thorax olive, abdomen darker. Forewing olive with black transverse olivacea. 
lines; the subbasal line double, below the costal margin broken, the antemedian line is also double and sinuate 
and before it there is a black diffuse patch in the costal area, the postmedian line undulate, the submarginal 
line interrupted, fringes brownish, with black spots. Hindwing smoky-brown, the fringes at the ends lighter. 
Under surface brown, forewing hued blackish, all the wings with 2 sinuate, black postmedian lines; hindwing 
with a dark discal spot. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Kanshirei, Formosa; in April. 
D. taiwana Wilem. <J. Antennae dark brown with a greyish shaft. Head and thorax light grey, in taiwana. 
some places darker. Abdomen greyish, lighter at the apex, darker at the anal segments. Forewing lighter and 
darker grey with subbasal and antemedian, black, sinuate, lines, the first of which is distinct only towards the 
costa, between the lines a blackish nebulous band, the reniform spot margined with black, the postmedian 
and submarginal lines black and sinuate. Hindwing darker and with traces of a postmedian line and of the 
discal spot. the postmedian and submarginal lines are sharply marked, and the hindwings are lighter than 
in the <$. Expanse of wings: 56, $ 67 mm. — It may be a local variety of D. strigata Moore. — Formosa; 
in May and August. 
D. kosemponica Strand (47 a). $. Approximates the genus Cifuna. Forewing greyish-black with kosempo- 
a yellowish-brownish discocellular transverse spot and a similar transverse spot in the dorsal area, both spots nic 
distally bordered by a black zigzag transverse line; a third, similar, though roundish spot is in the dorsal area 
somewhat nearer at the base and within this spot there are 2 indistinct transverse lines, whilst in the costal 
area 8 indistinct, light greyish transverse streaks are recognizable. In the marginal area 2 black zigzag transverse 
lines, the proximal one of which rests on 6 jet-black wedge-shaped spots. Hindwing a little lighter, uni-coloured, 
beneath, however, with a black discocellular punctiform spot and outside of it with 2 dark transverse streaks. 
The body is coloured like the corresponding parts of the wings. Metathorax with one, the abdominal dorsum 
with 3 small scaled protuberances. Expanse of wings: 31 mm; length of forewing: 16 mm. — In the darkest 
specimens the forewing exhibits almost no other markings but the discocellular spot. — Formosa, Kosempo, 
flying in January, October and December. 
D. suisharyonis Strand (47 a). Forewing light grey with a brown postmedian area and subbasal suishary- 
spot, as well as fine transverse zigzag-lines. The subbasal spot extends as far as 5 mm from the base of the om 
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