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he describes at some length. Bar, overlooking Herrich-Schaffer's 

 work, considers striataria "une Pdlindidse. bien douteuse. " ^ The 

 species is very strongly marked and should be easily recognizable. 



PALINDIA SCITA Walker. 

 Palindia scita Walker, Char, undes. Lep. Het., 1869, p. 39. 

 Sir George Hampson has kindly drawn my attention to this de- 

 scription. It appears to represent a form quite unknown to me. 

 No locality is given. 



Genus DYOMYX Guenee. 



Dyomyx Guenee, Spec. Gen., vol. 6, 1852, p. 281. Type cimolia Guenee (first 



species); cimolia, here designated. 

 Dyomix Bah, Ann. Sec. Ent. France (5), vol. 6, 1876, p. 436. 



Table of the species. 



1. Hind wing with short tail on outer naargin ." 2 



Hind wing without tail, at most wavy or slightly angulated 5 



2. Discal mark narrow, lunate; white mark on inner margin situated beyond the 



fourth (bent) line 3 



Discal mark wide, oval; white mark on inner margin, if present, following the 

 third (straight) line 4 



3. Larger, browner; median line of hind wing bordered with orange; submarginal 



silver line slight albistriga Schaus. 



Smaller, grayer; median line of hind wing not distinctly bordered with orange; 

 submarginal silvery line distinct egista Bar. 



4. Larger, browner; white mark on inner margin distinct consequens Dyar. 



Smaller, grayer; mark on inner margin faint, yellowish vierricM Holland. 



Larger, grayer; no light mark on inner margin. . fumata Felder and Rogenhofer. 



5. Fore wing without eye-spot inferior Herrich-Schaffer. 



Fore wing with round eye-spot above inner margin6 6 



6. Three inner lines straight, oblique 7 



These lines wavy or broken 14 



7. Lines relieved on a uniform ground 8 



A solid dark shade between mid and inner lines 12 



8. Fore wing with terminal dark line relieved by narrow wMte or yellow lines on 



each side; median line of hind wing reduced to a dash 9 



Terminal dark line relieved only by faint pale shades 10 



9. Fore wing uniform purplish; lines with yellow edges guenei Bar. 



Fore wing purple-blue on inner half; lines without yellowish edges 



megalops Guenee. 



10. Subterminal line of forewing pale, distinct throughout janus Bar. 



Subterminal line faint or obsolete 11 



11. Mesial line of hind wing beneath even; pale line before terminal line of forewing 



above, dotted ocala Schaus. 



Mesial line of hind wing beneath crenulate ; pale subterminal line not dotted ... 12 



12. Ocellus large; reniform free from mesial line; inner line of hind wing parallel to 



and near outer egistoides Bar. 



Ocellus small; reniform contiguous to mesial line; inner line of hind wing remote 

 from outer line, curved, obsolescent herberta Dyar. 



13. Shade between mid and inner lines uniform in width jo7iesi Schaiis. 



This shade cut off above inner margin zates Druce. 



1 Ann. Soc. Ent. France (3), vol. 5, 1S75, p. 290. 

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