NEMEOBINAE 
G8 
HOLODESMUS 
Subfamily NE3MEOBINAE- 
OvuM. Not as high as wide: smooth: granulate or prickly: neither reticulate nor radiate in tbe 
few genera I have examined (Doherty). 
Lauva. Neither the larvae nor the pupae exhibit any well marked characteristic feature, but they 
show considerable variety (Sharj)). 
Pupa. Short: only slightly, if at all, angiilated or fusiform: flattened towards the head: head 
bifid or truncately rounded in front: recumbent, attached to a leaf by the tail and a median girdle 
(Bingham). 
Imaoo. Of moderate or small size. Wings of variable shape. Forewing with twelve veins: eell 
closed. Hindwing with nine veins: cell closed: precostal spur present. In some Indian forms the hind¬ 
wing is produced at the tornns, and in others it is tailed: in some it is tailed at vein 3 and in others 
it is dentate. 
Genus HOLODESMUS nov. 
Antennae more than half the length of costa, with clubs long, gradual and slender. Eyes hairy. 
Palpi very short. Forewing Avith vein 11 anastomosed Avitli vein 12 for some distance and then running 
free to costa: basal portion of A'ein 11 sometimes A’ery slender: A'ein 10 from subcostal just before end 
of cell: eell less than half the length of Aving and closed: A’ein fl sometimes arising from upper apex of 
cell: vein 5 much longer than A’ein 6 or A’ein 4: tcrmen straight in male and rounded in female. Hind- 
Aving Avith cell much less than half the length of Aving and closed: termon rounded. 
Type, llolodesmus segecia Hewitson, from Npav Guinea. 
Hewitson placed this species in his genus Sospita, and ga\’e N. fylla as the first species, which 
Scudder considers the type. Bingham placed S, fgUci under the genus Abisara and sank Sospita as a 
synonym of that genus. Our species is Avithout the angulate liindAving of AbisarOj and it does not agree 
Avith the doubtful genus Sospita, for S. fylla has vein 11 free from A’ein 12. It shoAV’s some relation with 
Taxila in Avhich A’ein 11 is sometimes anastomosed Avith vein 12, but in Taxila tlie eyes are smooth. 
79. Holodesmus segecia HeAAutson. (New Guinea). 
79a. H. segecia punctaria Fruhstox-fer. Fig. (6^ 68^(6^ 
Iris, 1904, p. 144. 
r?, Ap.ove. ForeAving broAvn-black: a broad hand from costa at half to A’ein la just before tornus, 
Avhite: a series of tAvo to four small suhapical spots, and a minute dot on apex, Avhite. Hindwing 
bi’OAvn-black: a series of obscure subterrainal spots, black: termeu black, between veins narroxvly white. 
Beneath. ForcAving brown-black: base grey-bi*oAvu; apex and termen broAvn: tAvo bars across eell 
grey hroAvn: band and spots as abo\*e, but latter extending as a faint jxale subterminal line, to tomus. 
HindAving gi-ey-brown: a])ex broadly broAvn-black : a spot in base of cell, bi’OAvn-black, and an irregular 
series of diseal spots, red-brown: a series of sublerminal spots, black edged Avhite: termen narrowly 
orange, Avitb a sjxot at each vein broadly black, and betAveen veins narroAvly Avbite. 
Q. Above. Foi’CAving broAvn-blaek: base red-brown: band, four spots, and dot as in male but broader. 
Hindwing red-broAvn: apex broadly broAvn-blaek: a series of subterminal sjxots, black: termen between 
A’eins naxTowly AA’bite, Avitb a broad spot on each vein, black. 
Beneath as in male: pale red broAvn instead of gi’ey broAvn. 
TjOC. Cape York 4 5 7 <S 9 10 11. Claudie R. 1. Coen 10 12. 26ci^ 1<S 2. 
