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OMESTIA; PARAMARANE; RARISQUAMOSA. By. Dr. A. Seitz. 
udiana,. 
caniceps. 
siyx. 
bclla. 
pulchra. 
shaded with brown or even entirely covered with brown (as in fig. 36 d), but it is of no use to denominate 
these variations of the colouring. — Larva black, the head marked with bone-yellow, on the dorsum 
beginning from the 4th ring there are black, saddle-like pads surrounded by a greyish blue, at the sides of which 
there are dark bossy tubercles in a yellowish-red ground. Feet yellowish-red; on the 2nd and 3rd ring lateral, 
bone-yellow spots. Pupa red-brown, obtuse. The imago was taken in November. 
E. udiana Mr. Likewise from Java, rather large (expanse 4 to 5% inches), all the wings with a double, 
paler, oblique transverse line. Antennae red-brown with lighter brown pinnae. The $ is red-brown, the double 
oblique lines well developed. — Larva black, 11 cm long, with 3 cm long, tufted hairs on rosy embedments; 
head marked whitish-yellow. Pupa blackish-brown, with 2 obtuse spines at the anal end. 
E. caniceps Wkr. £ ochreous-yellow, head grey, its posterior edge black, antennae with broad combs. 
Wings very broad with a straight reddish-yellow oblique line bordered with light; with 2 distal, dentately angled, 
black lines and a discal, grey, small spot with an indistinct black margin; forewing yellowish doe-coloured, 
with a scarcely crescent violettish-whitish apex. Under surface yellowish doe-coloured, the space behind the 
first line reddish-violet with a greyish hue. Hindwing with a very prominent proximal angle. Proximal margin 
very densely fringed with hair. Moreton Bay in Australia. 
E. slyx B.-Bak. Expanse of wings: 94 mm. Head, thorax and forewing umber-brown, forewing 
with entirely faded traces of 3 or 4 transverse bands through the centre of the wing; a slightly bent, dingy 
ochreous antemarginal line bordered with dark; from there a broad, dark green area with a dentate distal margin; 
border of the wings dull ochreous-brown. New Guinea (Biagi, Mafalu, 6000 ft.) in August. 
17. Genus: Omestia B.-Bak. 
We append here this genus entirely unknown to us, which is based upon 1 species and may be best 
inserted near the genus Cotana (p. 419). The prothorax with the bristly patagia forms a projecting hair-tuft: 
metathorax with a feeble central tuft. Base of abdomen with 2 tufts on each side; at the abdominal end an 
anal tuft. In the forewing vein 3 rises before the cell-angle, 4 from it, 5 directly above the middle of the 
transverse vein; 6 to 10 forked. 7 and 10 from the end of the accessory cell, 8 and 9 on a long footstalk, 11 
pressed down long towards the areola. Forewing with an almost straight costal margin and pointed apex; 
margin in the radial region feebly bent. Hindwing broad, the margin at vein 3 feebly angular. 
0. bella B.-Bak. <$: head flesh-coloured brownish with a white frontal tuft, collar with a white trans¬ 
verse streak, like the thorax pale chestnut brown; abdomen lighter with creamy lateral tufts and a dark red 
dorsal tuft. Forewing light cloe-coloured with a median, bent silvery stripe from vein 2, obliquely to the costa 
continued in a light stripe of the ground-colour; behind the middle a pale stripe interrupted on vein 3 and still 
more on vein 2; an antemarginal light stripe is distally bordered with dark and interrupted on all the veins; 
from the postmedian line at the costa an entirely oblique line runs into the silvery stripe. Cell on both edges 
dotted dark. Reniform macula surrounded by light. Between the subterminal and post-median line dark dots 
in two rows; costal margin dark reddish, in the apical part broad violettish-grey. Beside the silvery stripe 
there is another silvery triangular spot. Hindwing flesh-coloured, towards the base ochreous, fringes dark 
reddish. Expanse 43 mm. Kebea (New Guinea). 
Genus Paramaraue B.-Bak. 
Based upon one lepidopteron that was taken at. an altitude of 6000 ft. in the Arfak Mountains in New 
Guinea in February. In the forewing vein 4 rises from the lower cell-angle, 5 from the centre, 6 from the upper 
angle of the cell, 7, 8 and 9 forked, 10 being absent. In the hindwing 4 rises at the upper angle of the cell, 
5 in the centre, 6 and 7 being forked. 
P. pulchra B.-Bak. with an expanse of 51 mm is unknown to me, nor is it anywhere figured nor 
compared with another species. Head, thorax and legs sooty black, abdomen ochreous-yellow. Forewing silvery 
white, behind the middle a yellow, undulate, oblique stripe with a fine, dark brown central line. Hindwing 
uni-coloured golden yellow. 
Genus Itarisquamosa B.-Bak. 
Likewisse based upon one male specimen originating like the preceding from New Guinea (Ninay Valley), 
the type being in a private collection. In the forewing vein 4 rises from the lower angle of the cell, 5 above 
the centre of the cell, 6 to 9 forked, 10 absent, 11 from the cell. In the hindwing 4 conies from the angle, 
