Completed 20. XI. 1915. 
Publ. ini March 1929. 
EPICOMA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
E. argentata Wkr. (= subargentea Wkr.) (57 e). Silvery white, strongly built. Head and thorax long- argentata. 
haired, the hair sometimes slightly ochreous. Palpi very short, antennae with moderately long pectinations. 
Abdomen ochreous, excepting the base; beneath darker. Forewing with an ochreous discocellular spot . Hindwing 
with a feeble golden reflection. Length of body 16, expanse of wings 41 mm. North Australia. 
E. argentosa T. P. Luc. (= argentata Trnr. nec Wkr.). 28, $ 46 mm. Head and thorax creamy white, argentosa. 
Antennae brown. Forewing elongate, costa almost straight. Colouring creamy yellowish, speckled with silvery 
and scantily dusted with ochreous brown; the markings blurred, light ochreous brown, discocellular spot small 
and frequently indistinct, from 4 / 5 of the costal margin to % of the posterior margin a band which is the most 
distinct in the <$, a submarginal dentate line the notches of which touch the marginal line, fringe creamy 
yellowish. Hindwing creamy yellowish in the <$, light brown in the $, shaded near the base, from % of the 
costal margin to % of the posterior margin there is a band, a sublimbal line and a limbal line are light ochreous 
brown and connected by short longitudinal lines; these markings are rather indistinct and in the $ more light 
brown; the long hairing of the posterior margin is light brown, the fringe creamy yellowish. Duaringa in 
Queensland. 
E. protrahens T.P.Luc. 27—30 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae ochreous brown. Abdomen protrahens. 
ochreous brown, the base of each segment is black, the anal hairing ochreous brown. Fore wing oblong triangular 
with a rounded costa, grey, and speckled with brown and black scales, a very large discal spot beyond the 
centre and near the costa is creamy yellowish with a brown centre, a sublimbal row of 8 creamy yellowish spots 
and a similarly coloured interrupted marginal line; fringe ochreous and brown. Hindwing smoky black, in 
the a row of creamy yellowish marginal spots which are reduced in the $ to three small ochreous spots near 
the anal angle, the fringe in the A ochreous, in the $ smoky brown and ochreous. The A is generally lighter 
than the $. Brisbane. 
E. zelotes A. J. Trnr. 30 — 33 mm. Head whitish with an ochreous face. Antennae dark grey. Thorax zelotes. 
light grey. Abdomen blackish, the anal brush and a median row of spots ochreous. Fore wing oblong- 
triangular, with a slightly curved costal margin and an obliquely rounded distal margin, snow-white, on the 
costal and posterior margin speckled with dark brown and ochre, an ochreous, dark-edged, roundish discal 
spot, a broad ochreous brown oblique line from 4 / 5 of the costal margin to % of the posterior margin; fringe 
light ochreous, at the apex and a row of 4 basal spots dark brown. Hindwing ochreous with a narrow blackish 
band parallel to the distal margin at 4 / 5 , and a feeble dark subterminal line. £ 34—36 mm. Face grey. Fore wing 
more speckled, and the oblique line lighter. Hindwing dark brown, at the base whitish-ochreous with a terminal 
row of ochreous spots. — Larva gregarious on Eucalyptus platyphylla, hiding during the day. Queensland, 
November and December. —■ Near Cape York in Queensland a male form occurs with less brightly coloured 
hindwings which show a broader darker band (= zelotina form. nov.). zelotina. 
E. asbolina A. J. Trnr. $ 36 mm. Blackish. Anal brush ochreous. Forewing brownish-whitish, costal asbolina. 
margin and posterior margin as well as a broad terminal band hued with blackish, a blackish discal spot 
beyond the centre, a terminal row of large oval white spots. Hindwing blackish with subterminal spots as in 
the forewing [where the spots, however, are stated to be terminal], Queensland, North Australia, in June. 
E. rubricorpus Swh. A antennae with a white shaft and light red pectinations. Head, thorax and rubricorpus. 
forewing white, in some places with a light brownish ochreous hue; the space between the median vein and 
vein 3 as well as between the veins 4 and 5 opposite the end of the cell is pure white; three narrow brown 
(subbasal, antemedian and postmedian) transverse bands are slightly distally curved, and the antemedian band 
forms below the costa a sharp angle distally. Hindwing almost white without markings, at the inner margin 
chestnut-reddish. Abdomen dark bright chestnut-red with a white anal brush. Fringes of both wings white. 
Under surface unicoloured dingy white. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. - It is said to be allied with E. Isabella 
White (57 b). Roeburne in West Australia. 
E. signata Wkr. <$: head and thorax light brownish-yellow. Abdomen yellow. Forewing white, along signata. 
the costal margin and distal margin speckled with brown and yellow, with an indistinct brown oblique band 
outside the discal spot which is dark brown and transverse. Hindwing light yellow with a brown submarginal 
band. Length of body 12 mm, expanse of wings 33 mm. Swan River (Australia). 
E. isabella White (= nephthis White, lugens H.-Schaff.) (57 b). A yellow. Abdomen blackish, at both Isabella. 
its ends yellow. Forewing partly white with two yellow discal spots and 4 brown oblique bands, the distal one 
of which is submarginal and distally denticulate. Hindwing dark brown, base and fringe yellow. $ light 
yellowish-brown. Abdomen light yellow with a broad brown band. Fore wing white, with a slight brownish- 
yellow hue, with 4 brown bands. Hindwing light yellow with two brown bands. Expanse of wings 49 mm. 
In suppressa Wkr. A the 4 bands of the forewing are composed of small black spots, and there are traces of 5 suppressa. 
white, ochreous-spotted bands. Hindwing with a black-spotted transverse discocellular streak. Australia. 
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