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1. S. hostilis, Steph. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 rather broadly elongate, blunt, shining, reddish-grey dusted 

 with black ; base dull red bounded bj' two black transverse 

 stripes. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennse of the male simple but thickly ciliated, second 

 joint thickened and the expansion edged by a divided black 

 ridge ; palpi short, pointed, turned up against the face, 

 black-brown ; head whitish-drab ; thorax very pale purplish- 

 red ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wings elongated, obtuse, 

 rather narrow at the base but quickly broader ; costa flatly 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin very little 

 oblique and nearly straight ; colour grey-brown or reddish- 

 grey, thickly dusted with black ; basal area dull red to a 

 thick black perpendicular bar which precedes the first line 

 and is only separated from it by a narrow reddish parallel 

 shade ; that line is also parallel, slender, black and a very 

 little sinuous ; second line almost erect, much indented, 

 grey-white, bordered on each side with cloudy black ; two 

 black dots placed perpendicularly represent the discal spot ; 

 hinder area much dusted with black and edged with the 

 same ; cilia glossy pale grey, Hind wings ample ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently curved and sinuous ; 

 pale smoky-bi-own ; cilia rather whiter. Female similar, but 

 antennjB quite simple. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, with a 

 yellow dash along the costa beyond the middle, interrupted 

 by a smoky-black spot — the beginning of a transverse smoky 

 line. Hind wings shining smoky-white. Body and legs 

 brownish-white. 



There is considerable variation in the depth of the rust 

 colour of the basal patch of the fore wings, and in rare 

 instances it is totally wanting. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June. 



Lakva three-quarters of an inch long ; head broad, as wide 

 as the second segment ; body moderately slender, tapering a 



