142 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CETLON. 



Genus SPEIREDONIA. 



Speiredonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 272 (1818-25); Zutrage Exot. Scbmett. fig. 777 (1832); 



Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1292. 

 Spiredonia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 170 (1852). 



Wings moderately broad : forewing elongated, triangular, costa somewhat 

 convex towards the end, apes pointed, exterior margin oblique and scalloped; cell 

 extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third at one-sixth from base of second and fourth at 

 one-fifth from base of third, fifth from end of cell and joined to third near its base by 

 a short spur ; discocellular slightly concave, bent close to each end, radials from the 

 angles; middle median from angle close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths; submedian 

 slightly curved near the base : hindwing broad ; costa rather long, exterior margin 

 very oblique, convex, scalloped; cell extending to one-third the length; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular obliquely concave, radial from near lower end ; 

 two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-sixth ; submedian and internal 

 straight. Body stout ; palpi erect, laxly squamose, second joint reaching level of 

 vertex, in male, rather stout, third joint lanceolate, one-third length of second ; in 

 the female the second and third joints are more slender, the third being two-thirds 

 the length of second ; legs stout, thickly pilose, hind legs densely clothed beneath, 

 tarsi short in male, spurs long ; antennae setaceous. 



Type, S. Feducia. 



SPEIREDONIA RETRAHENS (Plate 164, Fig. 4, 6, var). 



Speiredonia retraliens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1294 (1858). 



Ommatophora albifascia, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 947 (1865) — Variety. 



Speiredonia conspicua, Felder et Rogen. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 113, fig. 7 (1874) 9 . 



Male and female. Dark purplish-ferruginous brown : forewing crossed by basal, 

 subbasal, and medial undulated paler ferruginous-bordered narrow black duplex 

 bands ; contiguous to the subbasal band is the small orbicular spot, and the medial 

 band joins the inner side of the quadrate pale bordered reniform mark, beyond which 

 is a blackish-grey incomplete ocellus, the ocellus with white-liued black outer border, 

 and the upper end being acutely bent between the radials and then extending 

 outwardly upward to the costa, the ocellus also being marked by a small white outer 

 dentate spot ; beyond is an outer discal blackish fascia, which is traversed by a pale 

 sinuous line, followed by a submarginal pale-bordered black sinuous Hue and a 

 marginal waved line : hindwing with a transverse discal acutely sinuous pale-bordered 

 duplex black line, a pale lined outer discal black fascia, submarginal pale-bordered 

 black sinuous line, and marginal waved line; a pale spot also at end of the cell. 

 The transverse bands on both wings bordered with bluish-grey fasciae in some lights. 



