( 590 ) 



c? ? . l'\)re\viii,!^- ]):ilcr Muui in the ludiiui form: distal bui'dei' ol' hiudwiug 

 iiari'owL'r, more strongly taperiny behind. 



//a/j. ( 'hina : Jai)an ; Corea ; apparently all tin' summer. 



in tlie Tring Museum 22 c?d, IS ?? from: Nagasaki, vi. ; Satsuma, v.; 

 Yokohama, vi. vii. viii. ; Taijieh, Formosa; China. 



CXXXYl. SlMIlNGONAEPlOrSLS.— Typiis : /if/tam. 



S/,l,in.i; Espcr (ho;j Linno, 1758), Sriimplt., ShjijjI. ii. p. 40 (1806). 



/'/•«.st)7»'h».< Hiibner, IVc:. Iitl:. Sclim. p. 182 (1822) (partim ; type : iii-usi-riiina = oru.iilh< nn). 



l'l,'i-ni/(ii( Hoisduval, Iml. Metli. p. :12 ( 182'.l) {,>oi,i. imlesn:) : id., Icon. I.q,. ii. p. 1 i (1834) (partim, 



iiicl. typo of I'mxer/iiiiiis). 

 ;.„/,/,,ii;i Walker (iiwi Flemming, 18J2), Lint I.<j,. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 105 (185(1) (partim). 

 S,,/iim/n„(irj,:u/,.-<;.s Walleugreii, Ocfr. Vet. AL: FOrh. xv. p. 138 (1858) (type : naimm = i/ivnlqies). 

 Giorira Kirby, Gil. Lrp. Ilel. i. p. (143 (I8'J2) (partim). 



c? ? . A near relative of (Inrclrit, not of I'j-o-'fi'rjtijius. Palpus rough-scaled, first 

 segment with lateral apical fan as in (iarelca. Antenna (PI. JjX. f. 2:\. 24. 25. 2!») 

 dentate or pectinate in c?, simple and clubbed in ? ; end-segment very .^Iiorf. Eye 

 lashed. Head with scaling raised to a large tuft. Spines of abdomen very weak. 

 Merum of midcoxa not angulate behind ; tibiae with some long spines ; spurs of 

 midtibia of nearly the same length; midtarsus with basal comb, hindtarsus with 

 few basal si)ines ; paronychium with the lateral lobes very small, the ventral ones 

 absent ; tarsi long. Distal margin of forewing irregular, M- at ajiical third of cell, 

 M' and R" close together : costal margin of hindwing nearly straight, convex near 

 base, ]\1' and M" close together, some distance from angle of cell, D- and L)-' straight, 

 lower angle of cell not acuminate. 



(J. Tenth tergite elongate triangular, ajjcx more or less rounded-truncate ; 

 sternite either similar to that of llypaedulia butleri (PI. XLIV. f. 30), strougly 

 chitinised, with the uijjierside transversely ribbed distally, or short, broad, mem- 

 branaceous. Clasper without friction-scales : harpe different in the various species. 

 Penis-sheatii without or with apical process. 



?. Vaginal jilate triangular, apical edge ])rojecting. 



Ijarva cylindrical, with numerous short hairs : head deeply impressed mesially ; 

 horn short ; on each side two dorsal and a ventro-lateral line from head to last 

 segment resp. horn.- — Food-plant : Rubiacear, especially Galium. 



Hub. South Russia to the Malay Peninsula and Madagascar. 



Five species. 



In the practical absence of both pairs of i>aronycliial lobes Sjihiinjowirpiopsis 

 ^a good mouthful, for such small insects too— is further advanced than (Jurelra, 

 in which the lateral lobes are preserved. The position of M' of hindwing close 

 to M- is peculiar. 



Boisduvars J'ttroyon of 1834, when he defined the genus, comprised several 

 genera of Hiibner's. His first section is identical with Proserpinus, containing the 

 same species ; the second section is Hiibner's Eiv/o ; while the third was probably 

 meant to comprise some African JS'tphelicae and Choerocampiiuw. 



Key to the species : 



II. Hindwing brown ....... b. 



Hindwing yellow or orange .....(/. 



