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TICERA; MET ANA ST RI A. By Dr. K. Grunberg. 
shut. 
dinawa. 
rulnginea. 
indicus. 
proserpma. 
castanea 
T. siva Lef. (=. ganesa Lef., pallida Wkr., venusta Wkr., albicans Whr.) (34 a). Distinguished from 
dorsalis Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 30 e) by the lighter colouring and the more distinct postdiscal band in the forewing, 
of which only the part bordering on the costal margin and a small spot between the veins 4 and 5 are distinctly 
developed. Tegulae and inner-marginal part of forewing light ferruginous, abdomen whitish with narrow red- 
brown rings or quite light, hindwing whitish with a dark brown anal margin, the distal margin in the $ broad 
reddish-brown. Comp, also Vol. II, p. 177, where also the larva is described. In the whole of India, also in 
Burma. 
T. dinawa B.-Bak. (34 b). S body and wings one-coloured, of an intense dark brown, forewing with 
an extensive, deep blackish-brown basal spot being behind the middle cut off by a fine lighter oblique line and 
not reaching the proximal margin. Costal margin of hindwing somewhat darker. Beneath as above, both wings 
with faint traces of a narrow blackish discal band, hindwing at the costal margin with a yellowish basal spot. 
British and German New Guinea (Dinawa, Huon Golf). 
T. rubiginea B.-Bak. (32 b). head, thorax and wings of a bright brownish-red. Abdomen lighter, 
beneath biown with a dark anal tuft. Forewing with subbasal, discal, and postdiscal, narrow, blackish, some¬ 
what undulate transverse lines; behind the latter touching the proximal margin close in front of the anal angle, 
another indistinct, fine, dark line, and besides an arcuate row of dark submarginal spots distally finely dotted 
whitish. Hindwing with 2 or ? scarcely noticeable dark transverse streaks, on the under surface at the basal 
part of the costal margin densely strewn with white scales. British New Guinea (Dinawa). 
T. indicus Conte. Head, thorax, and hairing of legs red-brown, abdomen blackish-brown with a red- 
brown anal tuft. Fore wing dark brown, before the middle of the proximal margin a smaller, behind the cell-end 
along the costal margin a larger, red-brown spot. Hindwing uni-coloured greyish-brown. Under surface in 
the forewing red-brown, turning darker towards the margin, at the base of the cell a white streak edged with 
black, in the hindwing blackish-grey. Assam. 
T. (?) proserpina B.-Bak. (32a). Body, antennae and palpi black, frons white. Forewing with faint, 
white discal spots and a deep blackish-brown discal area distinctly margined with white, the distal border¬ 
line deeply undulate and very sinuate below the costal margin; basal and marginal parts lighter, at the base 
below the cell a blackish-brown, white-angled spot, a blackish-brown spot at the somewhat reddish apex of 
the wing, another one in the middle of the marginal part; along the margin a row of black spots distally bordered 
by white bows. Hindwing blackish-brown, in the middle of the costal margin a white spot showing through 
from beneath. Under surface of fore wing blackish-brown with a white discal spot and 2 white inner-marginal 
spots behind the base and before the anal angle, a third white spot before the apex of the wing. Hindwing 
before the white, median costal-marginal spot with a jet-black, larger spot. British New Guinea (Dinawa). 
6. Genus : Ticera Swh. 
Most closely allied with Taragama and chiefly agreeing with it in the morphological marks, easily discer¬ 
nible by the peculiar contours of the hindwing, the distal margin of which is sharply cut off and somewhat 
concave, forming a sharp angle with the costal margin and proximal margin. Only one species known from 
the Philippines. 
T. castanea Swh. (32 a). <$. In the habitus and marking entirely resembling the $$ of the Taragama- 
species, dark red-brown, head and dorsal marking of thorax light greyish-yellow, forewing with a white spot 
in the middle of the costal margin, and a white submarginal line being indistinct in the middle; at the base 
and behind the cell-end a light ferruginous spot. The $ is not yet known. Philippines. 
7. Genus: Metanastria Iibn. 
Mostly conspicuous, partly very large species. Antennae in the S' with long pinnae, the branches of 
which gradually decrease towards the apex, in the $ with short pinnae. Palpi long, porrect and densely scaled. 
Forewing broader than in Taragama, with a steeper margin, hindwing broadly rounded. In the forewing vein 
8 forked with 6 and 7 or from the cell-end, the stalk of 9 and 10 mostly much shorter than the free ends. Veins 
4 and 5 in the hindwing at the lower cell-end or on a short footstalk. Middle and posterior tibiae with 
short terminal spurs. Distributed across the w T hole palearctic region, also in Africa. Comp, also Vol. II, p. 161. 
