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IPANICA; APINA; AGARISTODES; SEUDYRA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
25. Genus: Ipanica Hamps. 
Similar to Idalima, but characterised by a long, flattened frontal process with sharp edges. Antennae 
setiform, in with rather long cilia the segments somewhat compressed and ventrally not touching one another, 
the antenna appearing serrate in a lateral aspect, but not bearing real teeth. — Earva of the general 
Agaristid type, being ringed with black and having black dots each of which bears a hair; segment 11 somewhat 
raised. -—- 1 Papuan species, which extends westward to the Lesser Sunda Islands. 
e/ cornhjjtra. I. cornig^ra Butl. (4 b). Head, thorax and palpi blackish brown with yellowish white markings; abdo¬ 
men and hindwing yellow. Forewing paler or darker brown, the markings somewhat variable and similar 
to those of I. diversa and ardescens. On the hindwing a marginal band and a discocellular lunule blackish 
brown. The fringes of both wings spotted with whitish yellow. Larva yellow or reddish, with numerous black 
or brown belts, the median belt of each segment interrupted laterally and forming dorsally a conspicuous U-sha¬ 
ped spot, above the legs a pale longitudinal stripe; head, pronotum and underside as well as usually a trans¬ 
verse spot on segment 11 red or orange. —- Tropical Australia, New Guinea, Tenimber, Sumba; abundant. 
26. Genus: Apina Walk. 
Primarily characterised by the antennae and the frontal process. The antennae long-bipectinate 
in flattened beneath, and shortly biserrate in $. Frontal process long, naked, with sharp edges, its truncate 
apex sinuate; edge of frons produced into a sharp carina. All the tibiae with long hair in the middle. Venation 
similar to that of Idalima and Ipanica. ■— 1 Australian species. 
callisto. A. callisto Walk. ( — calisto Bdv.) (4 b). Black, head and thorax striped with whitish yellow, abdomen 
ringed with yellow, beneath more extended black than above. Forewing streaked with rust-brown, ground¬ 
colour black, a variable band on the disc, two spots in the cell, transverse markings in the basal area and be¬ 
fore the hind margin, a row of dots at the distal margin, and on the hindwing a discal band as well as a row 
of marginal spots yellowish white. — The larva, which occurs sometimes in large numbers on grassland, is 
said to be hairy; a more precise description is still wanting. — Distributed from Tasmania to Queensland and 
West Australia, being plentiful in many places. 
27. Genus: Ag*aristo«les Hamps. 
Differs from Apina particularly in the frons bearing only a feeble rounded tubercle instead of a horn. 
— 1 Tasmanian species. 
feisihameli. A. feisthanieli H.-Schaff. Black, head, thorax and wings with yellowish white markings; the femora, 
incomplete belts on the distal abdominal segments and a dorsal tuft of hair at the base of the abdomen yellow. 
Forewing with 2 cellspots, a curved discal band which reaches to median 2 and is posteriorly usually produced 
to the cell, before the apex a short zigzag line and at the margin a row of dots; on the hindwing a broad band 
which is nearly straight proximally, rounded distally and pointed behind. Markings of the wings larger beneath. 
— Tasmania. 
28. Genus: ^einiyra Stretch. 
Frontal tubercle truncate with raised rim. Eyes naked. Palpal segments 1 and 2 long-hairy. Antennae 
either distinctly widened between centre and apex (some 33) with short cilia, or setiform and distally more 
or less obviously compressed with rather long cilia and bristles (some 33 and all the $$). Abdomen with 1 ' 
or several dorsal tufts of hair, tergite 1 only separated anteriorly from the pleurumby a narrow interspace. All 
the tibiae long-hairy. — Larva with dispersed long hairs, on Vitis, only known of one species (transiens). -—- 
— Indo-Malayan, extending northward to Japan. 
a) S3 with the antennae distinctly incrassate. 
albifascia. S. albifascia Walk. (Vol. 3, pi. 1 f, misspelt alhifasciata). Abdomen yellow, with several tufts of brown 
hair on the proximal segments. Forewing above with brown or black transverse lines, the ring and reniform 
spots being of the same colour, and with a broad short white discal band, which is often strongly shaded with 
brown; hindwing yellow, with a black distal marginal band, which is very broad anteriorly and gradually 
narrowed posteriorly, not quite reaching the anal angle. On underside the basal area of the forewing sharply 
defined and yellow, the discal band white on a brownish black ground. -— South and North India, southward 
distributed to the Malay Peninsula and the Andamans. 
ne-pcha. S. nepcha Moore is not known to me in nature. The antennae are described as being yellow. The 
forewing has a white cell-spot on the upperside and a very narrow white discal band, while the hindwing is 
yellow with a black distal marginal band. Underside yellow proximally, black distally; discal band of forewing 
broad, extending from the costa to the hind angle; hindwing with a white median spot from the costal 
margin to the apex of the cell. — Sikkim. 
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