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DAMIAS. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
hairy, 3 smooth and short ($); antenna distinctly incrassate. Forewing with areole, subcostal 5 from its apex, 
lower median far proximal, upper median about 1 mm distant from lower angle of cell; cross-vein incurved 
in both wings. Radial 2 of hindwing (= vein 5) simple as in Immetalia. Upperside of hindwing clothed with 
long hair before the distal margin between the veins in the $ (the $ not known). -—■ Philippines; one species. 
mimetica. C. niimefica Roths. (4 b). Bluish black; the hind edge of the head, the pronotum, segments 1 and 2 
of the palpi, the coxae, the underside of the fore and mid legs (with the exception of the tarsi) as well 
as the underside of the abdomen orange, claspers black on the outer side. Wings bluish black; forewing with 
bluish white discal vein-stripes, similar but much weaker streaks before the margin of the hindwing. — 
North Luzon, 1 $ in Mus. Bring, collected by J. Whitehead. 
9. Genus: H>nmias Walk. (Burgena Walk.). 
Frons broad, convex, without conical prominence, but with raised ring. Eyes large, naked. Head 
laterally of the antennae with long hair-scales directed laterad. Antennae strong, distinctly incrassate distally 
of the middle, 2 ;i the length of the costa of the forewing. Segment 3 of palpi long, underside of 1 and 2 with 
moderately long hair and scaling. Tibiae and tarsi smoothly scaled, tarsal segments 1—4 with 5—6 irregu¬ 
lar rows of spines; segment 5 without scaling underneath, with slender spines at the sides and some brist¬ 
les on the sole, in the $ the sole minutely hairy, in the $ densely clothed with curved yellowish hair; segment 
1 of A much longer than the 4 others together and distinctly swollen. Abdomen at the sides of segments 
2—6 in <$ and $ with a spot of brownish modified scales, segment 1 with large basal chamber, the tergite 
being laterally rounded-dilated and there being beneath the chamber a lobe clothed with long hair. Forewing 
narrow, with areole, subcostal 2 far beyond it and 5 from its apex or from between areole and subcostal 2, 
radials 2 and 3 and median l close together, median 2 distant from angle of cell, cross-vein incurved in both 
wings; in hindwing radial 3 and median 1 from the lower angle of cell or shortly stalked. — Early stages not 
known. — A Papuan genus which occurs from the Northern Moluccas to New South Wales and the Solomon 
Islands. No species of Damias has as yet been found on the Southern Moluccas (Amboina, Ceram, etc.), Timor 
and Timorlaut and Celebes. 
Damias Bdv. (1X32) is a nom. indescr. — Damias Walk. (1854) has varia as type. 
D. varia. Thorax black above, anteriorly with 2 and behind the centre with 1 yellow transverse band; 
abdomen orange, banded with black; underside of body for the greater part orange. Forewing black, with a 
slight blue gloss, in the basal area a longitudinal streak below the cell; in the cell 1 (rarely 2) Avhite spots and on 
the disc 2, of which the lower one is hi- or tripartite. Hindwing with broad orange median band, which is rounded 
anteriorly and does not reach the costal margin. On the underside the hindwing has, in addition, an orange 
or yellowish white base. Of all the species the most widely distributed: Northern Moluccas, New Guinea and 
varia. Australia. — varia Walk. (2 b). Band of hindwing strongly incurved in the middle being here much narrower 
than the black marginal band; the basal streak on the forewing above usually whitish; fringes not white at the 
euxantha. apex of forewing. In the northern districts of New South Wales and in Queensland. — euxantha subsp. nov. 
Forewing above usually with a small bluish white subbasal cell-spot, the lower discal spot bipartite, large, 
longer than its distance from the outer margin; apex with white fringes. Band of hindwing very broad, on the 
outer side less incurved than in varia vera, but more so than in the specimens from New Guinea, twice as broad 
as the black marginal border, beneath entirely orange, as is also the basal spot. St. Aignan (Louisiades), 
anisa. collected by Meek in September, October and November. — anisa subsp. nov. The cell-spot: on the upperside 
of the forewing small, transverse, the lower discal spot bipartite, its upper portion about as long as its distance 
from the margin, the lower portion however shorter, being especially shortened at the lower median vein on 
the basal side. Band of hindwing as broad as the black margin, incurved immediately below radial 3, beneath 
whitish anteriorly, as is also the basal spot. Fringes at apex of forewing white. Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, 
ravida. found by Meek in March and April. —r avid a subsp. nov. Cell-spot on the upperside of the forewing iy 2 —-2 mm 
broad, about as large as in the specimens from Western and Northern New Guinea; the lower discal spot bi¬ 
partite, at least twice as large as the cell-spot, as long as its distance from the margin, the lower portion of 
the spot usually somewhat oblique proximal ly. Band of hindwing somewhat broader than or as broad as the 
black marginal border, incurved immediately below radial 3; the band uniformly orange beneath in and $. 
The fringes at the apex of the forewing white. D’Entrecasteaux Islands: Fergusson and Goodenough, found 
haiu. in September, October and December (Meek). — baia subsp. nov. Spots of forewing small, the lower discal 
spot less than half as long as its distance from the margin, fringes black at apex of forewing. Markings of hind¬ 
wing beneath uniformly orange in and $. In the higher mountains of British New Guinea. At once distin¬ 
guished from ravida by the smaller spots of the forewing and the uniformly black fringes. This subspecies 
is connected with the next by numerous intergradations occurring at lower altitudes in British New Guinea. 
educta. — educta Walk., originally described from Kei, occurs also on Aru, Waigeu and the islands in the Geelvink 
Bay, and is also abundant everywhere in New Guinea at the lower and median altitudes. In the the basal 
spot and median band of the hindwing beneath are always light yellow or yellowish white anteriorly, the orange 
colour being sometimes restricted to the abdominal margin; the apex of the forewing of $ and $ has always 
some white fringe-scales. The lower discal spot of the forewing is usually square or nearly circular, bipartite, 
