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APHA; APONA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
postpallida. 
subdives. 
floral is. 
jenestrata. 
cashmiren- 
sis. 
major. 
P. postpallida Rothsch. (56 B cl). Only the $ is known. It is most closely allied to some of 
Cotana lunulata (56 cl) from which it chiefly differs by the curved course of the black median line in the forewing. 
British New Guinea. 
6. Genus: Apha Mr. 
Compare Vol. II, p. 185 and the description of Ganisa (p. 425). Palpi erect and feebly fringed. Antennal 
combs short. Apex of forewing sharp and somewhat projecting. Discocellular almost straight, 7 A- 8 — 9 
forked. In the hindwing the ripper discocellular is oblique, 6 and 7 forked, 8 somewhat curved and remote 
from 7, the costal margin somewhat convex. In the typical section ( subdives Wkr., floralis Btlr.) the forewing 
is without vein 10, and vein 8 rises far from the apex; in the second section ( Prismostictci Btlr.) to which A. 
jenestrata Btlr. belongs, 10 is present and 8 rises near the apex. 
A. subdives Wkr. (36 c). <+ Head claret-coloured reddish-brown, thorax and abdomen purple brown. 
Wings brownish ochreous. In the forewing a purple spot on the costal margin near the base, about four very 
indistinct antemedian undulate lines, a spot at the cell-end, four or five very undulate, indistinct postmedian 
lines approaching the antemedian lines below the cell; the postmedian band is very oblique, below the apex 
sharply acute-angular, in the costal area undulate, and everywhere composed of a dark and a yellow line; the 
marginal area is yellow with two undulate submarginal lines. In the hindwing there are traces of antemedian 
undulate lines, an oblique median line, a double dentate submarginal line resembling a series of letters ,,W“. 
The under surface is much more magnificently coloured. $ lighter and yellower. Expanse of wings: $ 72. 
$ 86 mm. India (Khasis, Sylhet, Nagas). 
A. floralis Btlr. (37 b). <+ Similar to subdives, but the apex of the forewing is more extended and the 
costal straighter; thorax and abdomen ochreous, but the collar and tegulae purple, the latter besides somewhat 
reddish. Wings of a bright yellow; in the forewing the area before the postmedian line is less irregular, the 
proximal submarginal line is doubly dentate, the margin covered with brown, in the hindwing the area before 
the median line is covered with dark red and the line itself dark red, the submarginal line is broken up into 
a row of small spots on the veins, and these are connected by a feeble undulate line. Beneath light chestnut- 
brown, marginal area yellow. The $ is in the forewing not covered with purple, but on both wings with dark 
reddish. Expanse of wings: 64, $ 74 mm. Sikkim. 
A. fenestrata Btlr. (57 c). $. Body red-brown, thorax somewhat olive. Forewing olive-brown, the 
costal and marginal area light, two indistinct, angular, brown median lines, a brown discocellular line, two 
oblique postmedian lines being angular below the costa and undulate in the discal area, apex of wing brownish- 
grey with a triangular, hyaline spot. Hindwing red-brown with two slightly undulate, brown post median lines 
and traces of a sublimbal line. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Sikkim. 
7. Genus: Apona Wkr. 
Palpi small, but still a little larger than in Eupterote, and with very long fringe, antennal combs in 
both sexes very long and thin in the + shorter in the $. Spurs of the legs very long. Forerving broad with 
a rounded margin, the discocellular almost straight, vein 11 rises near 7 + 8 + 9. In the hindwing the disco¬ 
cellular is angular below vein 5 which rises near the upper angle, 6 and 7 from the angle. In the type: A. 
cashmirensis Roll, the apex of the forewing is somewhat projecting, in plumosa and shevaroyensis more 
rounded. As to the genus comp. Vol. II, p. 186. 
A. cashmirensis Roll. (Vol. II, t. 29 e). + Body red-brown, antennal comb white. Wings light 
red-brown. Forewing with an indistinct, undulate subbasal line, a black spot at. the cell-end, an oblique median 
line with three indistinct undulate lines outside of it, a double postmedian line with a light interspace and 
an undulate submarginal line, the space between the latter and the postmedian line darker; the veins are dark 
between the median line and submarginal line. In the hindwing no subbasal line, the other lines curved. 
Cilia of both wings dark. $ light greyish-white, the markings as in the + Expanse of wings: <^114, $ 96 mm. 
— major Rothsch. from Sikkim is at once discernible by its larger size, the less reddish-yellow cinnamon 
ground-colour and the more distinct markings. North Western Himalaya; Sikkim. 
