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TRICHOGATHA; PALARA. By W. Warren, 
antliina. 
variegata. 
suffusa. 
aroa. 
dinawa. 
implexata. 
becoming yellow apically; inner line pale, sinuous; outer line whitish, pure white towards costa, oblique out¬ 
wards to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line silvery scaled, subobsolete towards costa; a small blackish 
spot on termen above tornus; hindwing yellow suffused with fulvous red along termen and inner margin; 
a brown subbasal bar on inner margin; outer and subterminal fulvous red bands on inner margin, spangled 
with silvery scales; fringe yellow mixed with red. Queensland and S. Australia. 
C. anthina Trnr. (251). Forewing grey suffused with rufous; a subbasal white dot on costa; inner line slight, 
rufous, with a white dot at each end; a white spot on middle of costa; outer line slight, redbrown, defined 
externally by pale, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; terminal line red; fringe orange with some red at apex 
and middle; hindwing pink; a faint reddish inner band; a slight sinuous median line, externally whitish, 
followed by a diffuse red band; terminal line red and black; fringe orange. The type, a <$, from Toowoomba, 
Bunya Mts., Queensland. 
68. Genus: Trichogatha gen. nov. 
Differs from Collipyris Meyr. in the femora and tibiae or the tibiae only being fringed with long hair. 
Type T. variegata Beth.-Baker. 
Sect. I. Femora fringed with long hair, as well as tibiae. 
T. variegata Beth.-Baker (241). Forewing yellow suffused with bright rufous between median and outer 
lines and in tornal area; lines rufous; inner line excurved above and below median vein; cellspot deep rufous; 
outer line dentate, distinct only in the yellow costal area; subterminal the same, approximated to outer line; 
a strong rufous terminal line; hindwing with a broad inner rufous shade; diffuse rufous median and outer 
lines approximate and irregular, and a strong rufous terminal shade; fringe of both wings yellow at 
base, rufous at tips. Dinawa and Aroa River, British New Guinea, and Mt. Goliath, Dutch New Guinea; in 
this last locality an aberration occurs; — ab. suffusa ab. nov. (241) — in which both wings are suffused 
with greyish fulvous. 
Sect. II. Tibiae only fringed with long hair. 
T. aroa Beth.-Baker. (241). Forewing dull flesh red sprinkled with darker; the costal edge shining purplish; 
inner line slight, purplish red, incurved at vein 1, preceded by a dark dot in cell; median line oblique, purplish 
red; outer line denticulate, excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark dots; hindwing with straight pur¬ 
plish red inner and indistinct curved outer line. Aroa River, British New Guinea; described from a $ only. 
In this species the termen of both wings is only slightly excurved at middle. 
T. dinawa Beth.-Baker. 23 1). Forewing flesh red with darker irroration; an inwardly oblique diffuse 
purplish fuscous line from beyond middle of costa to before middle of inner margin; outer line fine, dark, angled 
outwards on vein 4, above which it is concave, then straight and oblique inwards to submedian fold, then 
vertical; a dark terminal line; hindwing with the thick line continued across it at 1 / 3 ; the outer line den¬ 
tate lunulate; fringe of both wings concolorous. Described from a single $ from Dinawa, British New Guinea. 
69. Genus : Palara Walk. 
Differs from Sophta in the termen of forewing being evenly curved; in the $ the coxae, femora, and tibiae 
of the forelegs are thickly tufted with hair, and the mid and hind tibiae are fringed with long hair. Type P. 
implexata Walk. 
P. implexata Walk. (241). Forewing bright rufous with slight silvery irroration; the costa pure white; inner 
line dark, very faint, inwardly oblique; a black cell dot; outer line dark, lunulate dentate, the teeth forming 
white points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and towards inner margin again excur¬ 
ved; hindwing similar. Sarawak, Sandakan, Kuching, Borneo; Singapore, Malay peninsula. 
