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ANEPA; PSEUDODURA; HERACULA; SITVIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
26. Genus: Anepa Swirih. 
Original description: palpi turned forward and slightly downward. Frons, head and thorax long-haired. 
Abdomen on each segment with hair-tufts. Antennae as far as the tips bi-combed with long pinnae which are 
ciliated and at the ends bristly. Wings as in Dasychira of the Olene- group. In the forewing the veins 7, 8 + 9 
are on a footstalk, 10 and 11 coincident and forming the cell ( ?); in the hind wing 6+7 rise on a long footstalk. 
Posterior tibiae with 4 spurs. 
A. fusca Wkr. J: dark brown. Head and thorax anteriorly yellow. Ventral side of the body and fusca. 
legs brownish-yellow. Fringes beneath with lighter and darker bands. Antennae light brownish-yellow with 
brown pinnae. Expanse of wings: 30,6 mm. Australia, Tasmania. 
A. fulviceps Wkr. brownish-slate-coloured. Head, thorax in front and partly the forelegs with fulviceps. 
yellowish-red hair. Antennae light slate-coloured, with brown pinnae. Legs light slate-coloured. Wings lustrous 
with lighter fringes. Length of body: 2814 mm. Tasmania. 
27. Genus: I*sei 0 «lo«hira Strand. 
Recalls Dura Moore by the vein 11 anastomosing with 12, but it is areolate. Hindwing not angled. 
In the forewing vein 3 is twice as distant from 2 as from 4, 5 separated from 4, 6 behind the angle, 7 from the 
apex of the areola and terminating into the margin, 8 + 9 on a long footstalk from the apex of the areola, 
10 from the middle of the costal margin of the long, narrow 7 areola, 11 is flawed by anastomosing w 7 ith 12. 
In the hindwing 3+4 are on a very short footstalk, 6 + 7 on a slightly longer footstalk. Palpi porrect, pro¬ 
jecting beyond the frons, below with long bushy hair. Antennae bipectinate to the tips. Habitus similar to 
that of Dasychira. Hindwing much broader than the forewing; in the latter the apical third of the costal margin 
is upturned, thus forming a marginal bracket. 
Ps. dasychiroides Strand (47 b). <$: forewing brownish-black, with a somewhat violettish antemedian dasyehiro- 
transverse area, a light brown basal spot margined with black and situate in the dorsal area, a jet-black disco- ides ' 
cellular spot forming a transverse line concavely curved towards the apex, 1 or 2 indistinct light zigzag lines 
and traces of zigzag bands. Hindwing more greyish black, only in the costal area lighter, beneath lighter than 
above. Forewing beneath darker than the hindwing with traces of a transverse band and of a discocellular 
spot. Body as the wings. Expanse of wings: 31, length of forewing: 15+> mm. Formosa, Japan. Types in 
the German Entom. Museum. 
2. Group: InareoSafae. 
28. Genus: Meraeula Moore. 
One Indian species easily discernible by its peculiar marking, and one Australian species. Palpi long, 
erect and below with long brushes, the antennae (of the $) with fine cilia. Forewing broad with a rounded 
apex, 3 rises far from the angle, 6 behind the anterior angle, 8 +9 + 10 on a very long footstalk, and almost 
from the middle of this footstalk rises 7. 
H. discivitta Moore (39 f). Head, collar and protliorax dark brown, meso-, metathorax and abdomen disdvitta. 
reddish-yellow. Forewing with a small, dark brown, costal mark, a large, round, basal, reddish-yellow spot 
margined with white, and a dark brown discal band. Marginal area reddish-yellow, strewn with black scales, 
and proximally bordered and margined by a curved, white line. Hindwing dark brown, with a broad, reddish- 
yellow marginal band inside slightly undulate. Expanse of wings: 64 mm. Sikkim. 
H. leonina Trnr. 58 mm. Oclireous, partly mixed with white. Forewing except the two margins leonina. 
somewhat brownish, with an oblong-oval, whitish, antemedian discal spot and a smaller, whitish spot at the 
cell-end; the veins towards the margin with lighter borders. North Queensland (?). 
29. Genus: Sitvia Wkr. 
Slender, scantily scaled lepidoptera with very large wings. Palpi strong, hairy, densely appressed to 
the head, reaching vertex, the third joint very minute. Antennae in both sexes long-combed. Abdomen with a 
small anal brush. Legs smooth, rather short, anterior tibiae thickened and with along tuft, posterior tibiae with 
four long, thin spurs. Forewing at the end rounded, with an almost straight, slightly oblique margin; the 
second of the lower veins is more than thrice as distant from the third as from the first vein, the third is much 
more distant from the fourth than from the second. Hindwing projecting far beyond the abdomen. 
S. denudata Wkr. (= lowii Btlr.) (39 e). White. Head above yellow. Palpi yellow, thoracal dorsum denudata. 
striated yellow. Antennae brown. Wings almost hyaline. Expanse of wings: 65 mm. Malakka, Borneo, Penang. 
