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DAPLASA; SCARPONA; NUMBNES. By Dr. E. Strand. 
postalba. 
strigipennis. 
irrorata. 
ennomoides. 
insolita. 
contrahens. 
patrana. 
P. postalba Wilem. is allied to P. apicalis Wkr. <$: head and thorax brown, hued reddish. Palpi above 
blackish, beneath brownish. Abdomen blackish with whitish segmental rings and a yellow anal brush. Forewing 
greyish-brown, speckled with blackish scales, traces of lighter transverse lines, a large, creamy-white apical 
spot and a white moon-spot at the cell-end. Hindwing white, behind with some darker hairs. — $: forewing 
without the apical spot, the moon-spot very faint, a light grey antemedian line in the middle indistinct, and 
a clistally angled postmedian line, between these lines olive -brownish colouring. Hindwing white. Expanse of 
wings: $ 54, $ 57 to 60 mm. Rantaizan, Formosa, at an altitude of 7500 ft., in May. 
P. strigipennis Moore. (Vol. II, t. 20 c). This species described in the jralearctic part (p. 125) and figured 
there, is also distributed in North India, particularly in Sikkim and Assam. 
18. Genus: !>aplasii Moore. 
Small lepidoptera with very thin, short palpi flatly appressed to the frons. In the forewing 3 is as distant 
from 4 as from 2, whereas 4 and 5 almost touch each other at the base, 6 rises from the upper angle, 7 and 
the rather long footstalk of 8 and 9 from the apex of the areola. In the hindwing 3, 4 and 5 are separate, whe¬ 
reas 6 and 7 may be on a footstalk. 
D. irrorata Moore (39 d). <$: white, thorax speckled brown, palpi and legs of a bright yellow. Forewing 
strewn with small brown scales forming four indistinct, oblique bands which are most distinct towards the 
posterior margin, the distal one extending to the apex. Abdomen and hindwing light yellow. Expanse of wings: 
28 mm. Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Omeishan. 
19. Genus: Scarpoiia Wkr. 
Body strong. Palpi porrect, short, strong, obtuse, the third joint small. Antennae with very long combs. 
Abdomen broad and flat, not projecting beyond the anal angle, without an anal brush. Legs strong and rather 
short, posterior tibiae with four strong, moderately long spurs. Wings broad and extended ( ?). Forewing 
subfalcate with an almost straight costal margin and the distal margin slightly angled in the middle; the 3rd 
of the lower veins is more than twice as distant from the 4th as it is from the 2nd vein. Margin of the hindwing 
posteriorly slightly emarginated. Is said to be closely allied to Numenes. -— Unknown and doubtful to me. 
S. ennomoides Wkr. q : sulphur-coloured. Forewing with brown fringes and a doe-coloured marginal 
spot not far from the anal angle. The fringes of the hindwing are brown towards the anal angle. Expanse of 
wings: 37 mm. Sarawak, Borneo. 
20. Genus: IMumeiies Wkr. 
This genus is particularly conspicuous by the far-reaching sexual dimorphism and by the $$ exhibiting 
a variegated colouring reminding us of the Arctiids. The genus is entirely Indian, only 1 species reaching the 
east of the palearctic region. Vid. Vol. II, p. 126. 
N. insolita lb. Schultze. head and thoracal dorsum dark brown, palpi, thorax beneath, middle 
and posterior legs as well as abdomen yellow; the latter with a dark dorsal spot. Forewing creamy-whitish 
with a dark band of the posterior margin, a similar narrower antemedian band and broader post median band 
extending from the posterior margin resp. from the anal angle almost vertically on the costal margin. Hindwing 
yellow with a somewhat irregular, narrow marginal band. Length of wings: 21 mm. Allied to N. contrahens 
Wkr. Palawan, Philippines. 
N. contrahens Wkr. <$: brownish-yellow. Head, thorax and forelegs brown. Palpi porrect, short, 
stout, hairy. Abdomen, hindlegs and hindwings pale yellow. Forewing with a brown streak along the posterior 
margin and with 2 brown, parallel and almost vertical bands, the second of which is irregularly double except in 
front. Hindwing with a brown marginal band irregularly emarginated in front. Length of body: 14 mm; expanse 
of wings: 37 mm. Sarawak. 
N. patrana Moore (= partita Wkr.) (41 f). J: head and thorax reddish-brown. Abdomen ochreous. 
Forewing white with a basal, dark red-brown diffuse spot and a costal-marginal spot outside of it, a broad, 
Y-shaped diseal band and an oblique streak from the same costal-marginal dot to the middle of the margin. 
