DESMEOCRAERA. By M. Gaede. 
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dusted with grey. Hindwing at the margin broader reddish-brown. 3G—35 mm. New Guinea (Biagi, Mam bare 
R.) 1500 m. — 1 (J from the Ninay Valley, 1200 m, is larger (45 mm), in the marginal area more intensely dusted 
with green. 
B. triangulum sp. n. (83 e). Thorax and forewing pale greyish-green. An exterior line shaped as in triangulum. 
subgeneris is hardly recognizable. At its lower end a brown triangle, also at the costal margin a feeble shadow. 
The black submarginal line is marked in front. Abdomen and hindwing light red-brown, at the costal margin 
greenish. Fringes of both wings traversed by yellow. $ 45 mm. Singapore, Penang. Type in the Museum 
of Stettin. 
D. insufficiens sp. n. (83 f) is very similar to triangulum. Behind the exterior line which is likewise insufficiens. 
indistinct another broader tripartite yellowish line. The black submarginal line is longer. Hindwing somewhat 
lighter than in triangularis. Fringes not traversed by yellow. <$ 42 mm. Sumatra, Barisan Mts., 800 m. Type 
in the British Museum. 
The following species are greener and mostly more intensely marked. 
D. griseus Hmps. ($ = canescens Hmps.) (83 e). Thorax and forewing dark greyish-brown, with traces griseus. 
of a dark interior and exterior line. Hindwing paler brown. $ on the forewing as far as the exterior line darker 
brown. 50—58 mm. Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
D. chlorotricha Hmps. (83 d). <$. The original description is somewhat indistinct. As a specimen chlorotricha. 
likewise taken by Moller is at hand, it will belong to this species, because few specimens originate from this 
capturer. Thorax and base of forewing somewhat greyish-green. Interior line, if present, double, vertical, 
at the inner margin slightly incurved. Median area as far as the conspicuous exterior line dark green, enclosing 
a bluish-white ring-macula and reniform macula. Marginal area little lighter, with or without a black sub¬ 
marginal line. 42—45 mm. Darjeeling (Moller), Kwangtung. In the $ the marginal area of the forewing 
is browner, and below the ring-macula there iff also a coniform macula. kebeae B.-Bak. (83 f) may be the kebeae. 
same, but the double exterior line is more distinct. Such specimens are at hand also from the Khasia Hills 
(<$) and North Kanara ($). In both there are notched dark spots behind the exterior line at the costal and 
inner margins and feebler ones above vein 3. The whole scheme of markings may sometimes be browner and 
sometimes greener. 
D. saitonis Mats., from Formosa, seems to be allied to chlorotricha, but the reniform macula and ring- saitonis. 
macula are indistinctly light, the coniform macula is not defined. $ 50 mm. 
D. rufotegula sp. n. Similar to a small chlorotricha (83 d). In the type the tegulae are intensely rusty rufotegula. 
brown. Forewing at the base and in the marginal area chocolate brown, median area finely dusted with dark 
grey. The double exterior line is well recognizable. No traces of light maculae. Hindwing red-brown, at the 
costal margin dusted with green. S' 40—42 mm. New Guinea, Central Buru, 700 m. Type in the British Museum. 
1 £ from Selangor has white hindwings, only the inner margin being brownish. 
D. mediobrunnea B.-Bak. is similar though larger. $: forewing in the basal area ash-grey, in the median mediobrun 
area dark brown, marginal area pale chocolate brown. No double exterior line. In the $ the base and marginal 
area are pale ochreous grey, the dark median area is large. 45—55 mm. New Guinea: Kebea, Ekeikei, 
500—2000 m. 
D. frisopylus J. & T. (83 f.) Forewing greenish grey. Interior line indistinct, at the inner margin extra- trisopylus 
angular, the exterior line double, notched. Behind it at the costal margin somewhat dark and at the inner 
margin more intensely dark. Submarginal line black, distinct. The 3 maculae white, but they may also be 
absent. Hindwing greyish-white, at the apex brownish. - roseus form. nov. has a darker forewing, the 3 roseus. 
maculae are pink. Type in the British Museum. - In mediogriseus form. nov. (83 f) the basal and marginal areas mediogri- 
are greener, the median area greyer, the maculae white. Exterior line in the type filled with white, behind it 
at the costal margin broad dark. Type in the Tring Museum. $ 35 40 mm. New Guinea, 500—2000 m. 
D. frugilegus Bothsch. Forewing greenish-grey. Interior and exterior lines double, but the exterior frugilegus. 
line not forming any lunae. Both mostly filled with bluish-grey. The 3 maculae white, also yellowish, or they 
may be absent. Hindwing at the costal margin greenish. <$ 36 38 mm. New Guinea, 1500 m, Russel I., 
Cooktown. — As cliloropasta Trnr. is also describe^from Queensland, according to an apparently little marked 
specimen, it is probably the same species. - A specimen from Central Buru is larger (44 mm), ground-colour 
of forewing ligh£ green: aeruginosus form. nov. Type in the British Museum. 
D. mixta B.-Bak. Forewing greyish-white with green lustrous scales and dark 
intensely green. Only the interior line is double, straight. The cell-end whitish-grey, 
also behind it whitish-grey. Hindwing pinkish-brown. It may be an extreme form 
9 45 mm. New Guinea, 1000 m. 
D. alboviridis Rothsch. (79 g, 80 b). Similar to a very small fasciatus Mr. 
extensively white. Base and inner margin as far as vein 2 green. Interior and exterior lines double, the latter 
at the costal margin with a large greenish spot. The 3 maculae are white. Hindwing pale brown. $ 40 mm. 
New Guinea, 1500 m. (It may be the $ of trisopylus $). — Allied with the species of this group is opaca Trnr. 
The description of this form does not provide us with any particulars. Kuranda. 
nca. 
sens. 
lines. The base is more 
Exterior line notched, 
of mediogriseus (83 f). 
aerugino¬ 
sus. 
mixta. 
(83 g) 
Ground-colour alboviridis. 
