IROPOCA; AXIOLOGA; MARDARA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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transverse line of the forewing, on the hindwing a dark discal dot and a dark band near the border. — 2 antennae 
feebly combed. Abdomen greyish-yellowish, on the 3 first rings yellowish hair-pencils. The spaces between 
the dark undulate lines on the forewing are yellowish-brown. At the distal margin behind the last 2 undulate 
lines there is a broad, leaden-grey band. Hindwing yellowish-grey, at the base more densely haired and thereby 
appearing darker. Length of wings: 51 to 63 mm. Also in the Philippines, Java, Singapore, Waigeu. The 
smallest specimens from Singapore. The $2 vary a great deal in size; a specimen just as large as the figured 
one, labelled ,, ?New Guinea ?“, I have seen from Waigeu. 
D. fidjiensis Mob. Vuill. (41 f). wings greyish-white, the forewing with fine, blackish, interrupted fidjiensis. 
and indistinct zigzag transverse lines slightly thickened on the costal margin, thus being more distinctly pro¬ 
minent; at the same place also traces of isolated spots. Before the fringes extends a fine, black line formed 
of crescents. The hindwings are without such transverse lines, but in the dorsal area and apical area slightly 
darkened, somewhat reddish. Beneath the wings and body are white, but the forewing is hued reddish at the 
costal margin and apex, whilst the hindwing shows in the cell a brown bow and the margins hued reddish. 
Antennae white with red teeth. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Fidji. 
2. Genus: Irojioca A. J. Tmr. 
Palpi rather long, projecting far beyond the frons, densely haired. J 1 antennae with very long combs. 
Thorax and abdomen smooth, the latter densely haired. Posterior tibiae quadricalcarate. In the forewing 
7, 8 and 9 are on a footstalk, 10 rises from the cell and is sometimes connected with 8 and 9 before 7, 
forming a ver ysmall areola which is sometimes absent; 11 does not anastomose with 12 (in contrast with Axiologa). 
In the hindwing the veins 3, 4 and 5 rise separately near the cell-angle, 6 and 7 on a short footstalk or connate, 
8 connected with the cell before the middle. $ with rudimentary wings. Type: ,,Dasychira“ ( ,,Tecira“) rotun- 
data Wkr. 
I. rotundata Wkr. whitish. Head in front on each side black. Palpi black. Antennae with reddish- rotundaia. 
yellowish teeth. Abdomen above reddish-yellowish. Legs partly black. Forewing with some black spots at the 
base and with 2 irregular, angled, double, almost interrupted black bands, one at j/ 3 , the other beyond 2 / 3 of 
the length; beneath with a black discal spot. Hindwing grey, in the middle whitish and with white fringes. 
Expanse of wings: 41 mm. Tasmania, Australia, Moreton Bay. 
3. Genus: Axiologa A. J. Tmr. 
Palpi moderately strong, haired, porrect. $ antennae combed. Thorax and abdomen without a tuft, 
the base of the abdomen above densely haired. Posterior tibiae with two pair of spurs. In the forewing 10 
is connected with 8 and 9 opposite 7 and thereby forms an areola; 11 anastomoses shortly with 12. In the hind- 
wing 5 is at the base very near to 4, 6 and 7 on a short footstalk, 8 anastomoses with the cell before the middle. 
The main character is said to be the anastomosing of the veins 11 and 12. Turner likewise doubts whether 
this mark is constant, particularly since he was able to examine but one specimen. Type: ,,Team“ pura Luc. 
A. pura T. P. Lucas. 2 40 mm. Snow-white. Antennae creamy ochreous. Forewing oblong, feebly pura. 
expanded, costa rounded off, the margin obliquely rounded off; they are everywhere scantily speckled with 
very fine black dots, a sinuate, dentate, fine black line extends from % of the costal margin to 3 / 4 of the 
proximal margin, and a similar line is right before the apex of the costa, growing, however, less distinct towards 
the proximal margin, moreover an undulate marginal line; fringes white, with a smoke-coloured basal line. 
Hindwing and fringes snow-white. Brisbane; reported to be very rare. 
4. Genus: Mardara Wkr. 
Wings large and broad, the forewing subtriangular with an almost straight and very little oblique 
border, 3 being twice as distant from 4 as 4 is from 5, from the apex of the areola there rise 7 and the foots¬ 
talk of 8, 9 and 10. Spurs long. Type: M. caligramma Wkr. 
M. plagidotata Wkr. (47 b). Head and collar black dusted with white. Palpi orange. Antennae black, plagidotaia. 
Thorax and abdomen white, dusted with dark. Anal segments of the abdomen orange. Forewing white, speckled 
dark, with a brown discocellular moon-spot and brown costal-marginal spots before, in and behind the middle, 
as well as with a brown marginal band from the apex to vein 2, where it is narrowed. Hindwing white with 
a round black discocellular spot, a submarginal spot on the veins 2 and 3, a costal spot near the apex and 
on the margin, the marginal area slightly speckled with black. Expanse of wings: J 66, $ 72 mm. India, 
Darjeeling. 
M. albostriata Hmps. <$ head and thorax red-brown. Abdomen black with an orange anal brush and albostriaia. 
white-fringed segments. Forewing red-brown with white-streaked veins and a basal white patch enclosing a 
black spot, as well as a subbasal white line, an angular antemedian line, a distally curved potmcdian line 
