METAMIMAS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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sumatranus Rothsch. differs from pryeri in the presence of a distinct, notched median band and an angular sumatranus. 
antemedian line from the cell to the inner margin. The black basal spot and the black transverse band in the 
hindwing are better developed. Sumatra. — In tattina Jord., from the Battak Mts. in Sumatra, the subapical tattina. 
triangular spot at the costa is broader and less oblique than in typical substrigilis ; the marginal band is less 
expanded before the middle, the same being the case beneath, and the submarginal line bordering on it is 
not so distinct here. - wilemani R. & J., from the Philippines; both sexes with a distinct round subbasal spot wilcmani. 
on the forewing above, being absent in the other forms of substrigilis. Marginal band of the forewing before 
the middle somewhat broader than in the other races. Manila. The larva (of the form pryeri) is said to live 
on Plumeria. 
In the meantime also the specimens from Ceram have been treated as a separate species (ceramensis ceramensis. 
J. <£• T.); they may already belong to the following form, but they exhibit a larger round subbasal spot and a 
more intensely marked under surface *). 
O.wildei Misk. (61 c) is a relatively small species with a very much curved margin of the forewing, wildei. 
close along which the antemarginal stripe extends. Hindwing, as in subocellata, suffused with brownish. New 
Guinea and North-Eastern Australia. 
0. phalaris Jord. (= wildei R. & J. nec Misk.) (61 e) is one of the darkest forms; forewing deep bark- phalaris. 
coloured, an irregular postmedian band inside light as the ground-colour and bordered by undulate darker 
margins. The black spot in the submedian area is large; hindwing in the basal half quite sooty black, before 
the margin 2 black notched bands; New’ Guinea. caryeina Jord., from Rook I., is similar though paler, more carycina. 
ochreous; the costal antemedian line extends before the posterior cell-angle. 
0. meeki R. & J. (61 c) is very similar to plialaris , but the submarginal stripe of the forewing is more meeki. 
remote from the somewhat convex margin; forewing darker than in the other species and traversed by two 
deep-coloured and somewhat olive-tinted transverse stripes. Isabel I. pyrrhina Rothsch. is the same species pyrrhina. 
from Choiseul I. 
0. canescens Wkr. (= argentata Drc.) (61 d) has a light or silvery grey ground-colour and looks like canescens. 
a very pale specimen of another species. Between the two usual subbasal spots there are yet a few others 
embedded. Andamans, Borneo, South Indo-China. 
0. subocellata Fldr. (= nubila Hive., thwaitesi Mr., turbata Mr.) (61 d) is not larger than the preceding subocellata. 
ones, but with much brighter bands on both wings. Abdomen without a dorsal line. Larva leaf-coloured 
green, in front and behind whitish, with few indistinct white lateral stripes; sometimes there appear large, 
yellow-edged rust-spots on the sides of the dorsum, sometimes also the whole dorsum is red-brown. On Canarium 
album and pimela. — From Southern China over North India to Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Ceylon, and the 
Andamans, mostly not rare. 
0. semifervens Wkr. (= amboynensis Rothsch.) is very similar to subocellata, but the stripes on the semifervens. 
thoracal dorsum which are of a fine olive tint in subocellata, are not prominent here. Moreover the forewing 
is broader, the margin more convex. Below the discal cell of the forewing above there are yet 2 or 3 subbasal 
spots. Moluccas. — celebensis Jord. has narrower forewings, coloured as in subocellata, but the margin is straight celebensis. 
in the middle, the diffuse spot before the apex is large, the submarginal line above and beneath blackish olive. 
South Celebes. * 
0. dohertyi Rothsch. (61 d) is like the preceding species, but beside the subbasal spot at the costa and dohertyi. 
the one in the submedian area there are no other spots below the cell. Forewing more pointed and hindwing 
with a more produced anal angle. Hindwing in the apical portion of the bright orange, in the basal half 
intensely shaded with brown. New Guinea. — 1 male from Guadalcanal’ lias not the olive green thoracal stripe 
and a somewhat different under surface (=- salomonis R. & J.). salomonis. 
0. jordani B.-Bak. (61 c) is another species from New Guinea, much larger than the others; very similar jordani. 
to 0. placida (61 b); forewing much more pointed, the anal angle not produced, but somewhat truncate. Ante- 
marginal stripe somewhat faded, but in its lower portion quite straight, very near to the margin. 
0. cyclasticta J. & T. Forewing reddish-ochreous; a dark basal spot; an olive square spot at the costa, cyclasticia. 
A dark marginal shadow’ ending in the apex and in a dot before the inner angle. Between this shadow and the 
exterior transverse line the ground-colour is darkened. Hindwing ochreous with a straight oblique band directly 
behind the cell, and a very much curved and dentate line between this oblique band and the margin. From 
Burma; unknown to me. 
18. Genus: Metaiiiimas Btlr. 
A very large species (expanse: 14—15 cm), exclusively found in Australia. Proboscis strong, but quite 
short. The imago has about the shape of Oxyambulyx, but the apex of the forewing is truncate, so that below 
the apex the margin projects in an obtuse-angled notch. 
*) Jordan, owing to recent anatomical examinations, states that both pryeri and staudingeri must be regarded 
as separate species. 
