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the proximal one is entirely absent, the distal one only extends to vein 5, in nobilis, however, to the costal margin. 
Hindwing uni-coloured deep chocolate-brown, without the two whitish arcuate bands characteristic for nobilis. 
North East Borneo (Kina Balu). $ still unknown. 
2. Genus: I*aralebe«Ia Aunv. 
As in the genus Lebeda, this genus also contains a species, P. plagifera Whr., having already been described 
and figured in the palearctic part (comp. Vol. I, p. 174). plagifera is also a remarkably large, beautiful species, 
easily recognizable by the intensely chocolate median spot expanded to the margin on the forewing. 
P. plagifera Whr. (= crinodes Fldr.) (Vol. II, t. 30 e). This species has been described in Vol. 1, p. 175, plagifera. 
in dealing with its palearctic form femorata Men. The typical form does not occur in the palearctic region, its 
northern range being the Eastern Himalaya (Nepal and Sikkim), whilst in the south it extends to Java. Opsir- 
hina crinodes Fldr. is identical with this species. 
Another species is known from Java. 
P. lucifuga Sivli. (34 a). In the marking it resembles plagifera, but it is much smaller and without lucifuga. 
the black spot at the anal angle of the forewing. Body and Avings light reddish-brown, forewing with a distinct, 
dark reddish-brown or blackish-brown oblique band narrowly edged with whitish, beginning in the middle 
of the proximal margin with a lighter colouring and extending in the direction of the apex of the Aving up to 
the costal margin, Avhere it is terminated by a delicately bluish-white spot followed by a corona of small dark 
brown submarginal spots. Hinchvings and under surface light reddish-brown. Singapore; Java. 
3. Genus: Suana Whr. 
This genus likeAA'ise contains a single species: 
S. concolor Whr. (= bimaculata Whr., ampula Whr., cervina Mr.) has already been dealt with in concolor. 
the palearctic part (Vol. II, p. 178, t. 29 c). The species is distinguished by a very remarkable sexual dimorphism, 
the $$ belonging to the largest representatives of the family and being unrivalled at all in size in the whole 
Indo-Australian region. Its range extends across the AA'hole of South Asia and the Sunda Islands to the Philip¬ 
pines and to the north it proceeds in the Himalaya up to Cashmir. 
4. Genus: IShiiua Mr. 
Description of the genus in Vol. II, p. 177. This genus must be numbered among the typical represen¬ 
tatives of the Indian fauna, although beside 2 palearctic species inhabiting the Amur district also the South 
Asiatic undulosa Whr. for which the genus Avas established may yet be reckoned to the extreme forms of the 
palearctic fauna (comp, also Vol. II, p. 178.) 
B. undulosa Whr. (34 a). Of a deep, intense dark brown, the <$ almost black, abdomen and the undulosa. 
dense anal wool of the 2 lighter. Frons of the $ with yelloAv or greyish-yellow hair, the thoracal hairing some¬ 
times also light brownish. Forewing with a distinct, AAdiite, fusiform discal spot which in dark specimens is also 
sometimes absent, besides Avith a distinct \A T hite prediscal and postdiscal double band, the latter strongly dentate; 
the whitish submarginal band is coherent or often interrupted, proximally bordered by black spots. In the $ 
the foreAving and the anterior half of the hindwing is very thinly scaled and very diaphanous. $$ from Kangra 
(Cashmir) are lighter, very much intermixed with grey, and AA’ith white anal wool. Pupa in a brown web. South 
Asia and Sunda Islands, to the north as far as Cashmir. 
5. Genus : Tarawa m a Mr. 
Comp. Vol. II, p. 175. Some species (hyrtaca, recta) enumerated there as extreme forms under this 
genus, are to be found here under Metanastria Hbn. Taragama differs from the very closely allied Metanastria 
by the formation of the antennae the pinnae of which suddenly groAv shorter behind the middle, by the nar¬ 
rower forewing, the very oblique border of which passes over into the proximal margin in a uniform rounding, 
and by the absence of the tibial spurs. The two South Asiatic representatives of this genus are mentioned 
also in Vol. II (p. 177) as extreme forms occurring in the Himalaya. 
T. dorsalis Whr. (castanoptera Mr., igniflua Mr., hyperantherae Mr., intensa Mr.) (Vol. II, t. 30 e). dorsalis. 
Recognizable by the dark red-brown colour of the body and wings. Abdomen with only narrow grey rings, the 
postdiscal band in the forewing distinct, scarcely interrupted; hindwing red-brown, in the $ with a whitish 
postmedian spot, in the $ with a whitish band. In the AA'hole of India from the Himalaya to Ceylon, the Sunda 
Islands and Philippines. Specimens from the Sunda Islands are lighter. 
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