BY mSS A. E. PRODT. 223 



Stiotoptebinae. 



23. Stictoptera poiensis sp. n. 



CT 36 mm. 



Fore wing purplish in tone, the proximal half (to medial 

 line) deeper purple ; antemedial line very strongly bent out- 

 ward before and behind M and followed by two or three 

 undulating lines, the best defined of which represents the 

 medial line ; a broad black mark in fold in the position of 

 the claviform stigma ; an oblique blue streak between 

 postmedial and subterminal lines from E^ to M^ ; postmedial 

 line and dark subapical dashes about as in signifera, Steiria 

 signifera Wlkr., Spec. Lep. Ins., xiii, p. 1136, 1857, Sarawak: 

 border of hind wing more as in suhohliqua, Steiria suhohJiqua 

 Wlkr., ibid., Ceylon. Underside with the postmedial line 

 more sharply defined and rather more crenulate than in either 

 signifera or suhohliqua. 



Mt. Poi, 5000 feet— 1 cf . 



In addition to the differences mentioned above, poiensis 

 can be at once distinguished from signifera by the flattened 

 costa of fore wing and more oblique termen ; in signifera 

 the costa is somewhat highly arched. In suhohliqua the 

 fore wing is slightly broader than in poiensis and the postmedial 

 line beneath is almost obsolete, the average size larger. 



One specimen in Coll. Brit. Mus., from Singapore, placed 

 by Sir G. Hampson under signifera, appears to belong to 

 this species. 



24. Stictoptera semialba Wlkr. 



Minica semialba Wlkr., Journ. Linn. Soc, vii, p. 175, 1864, Sarawak. 



Mt. Poi, 5200 feet— 1 cf ; Mt. Penrissen, 4400 feet— 3 9 : 

 Mt. Murud, 6000--6500 feet, November— 1 9 . 



The cf (from Mt. Poi) seems quite a typical grisea form 

 of semialha, Stictoptera grisea Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1867, p. 67, Sikkim ; the 9 are more uncertain, 

 being a little intermediate towards ferrifera, Steiria ferrifera 

 Wlkr., Journ. Linn. Soc, vii, p. 173, 1864, Sarawak, in 

 the breadth of terminal band and darkening of hind margin 

 of hind wing ; but the medial and postmedial lines of fore 

 wing are more as in grisea and as the cf almost certainly 

 belongs to that species, it has sevmed best to refer the 9 filso 

 to semialba, form grisea. 



