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STENIADiE. 

 110. Crochiphora testulalis. 



Crochiphora testulalis, Hiib. (Geyer), Exot. Schm., iv., 



12, 315, figs. 629, 630. 

 Stenia testulalis, Gn., Delt. & Pyr., 247, 230. 

 S. testulalis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xvii., p. 420. 

 Maruca aquatilis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xvii., 



p. 540. 

 Siriocauta testulalis, Ld., W. E. M., vii., p. 424. 



Eighteen specimens, of which fourteen vary more or 

 less in one particular from the examples in the British 

 Museum Collection, having the orbicular stigma elon- 

 gated and amplified, so as almost to touch the smaller 

 spot beneath. In the other four specimens, and in those 

 in the British Museum Collection, the orbicular stigma 

 is truncated basewards, and separated from the smaller 

 spot by an appreciable interval of dark ground colour. 

 The costa of the hind wing is dark, with two black spots, 

 and there is a single wavy-brown transverse line across 

 the centre. Lederer omits to mention either of these 

 points in his description of Siriocauta testulalis, but as 

 he calls the hind wings and the hyaline patches of the 

 fore wings pale yellmv, his specimen was in all proba- 

 bility greasy, and the markings more or less effaced. 



The species appears to be of general distribution : 

 coming from the Punjaub and Ceylon in India ; from 

 Borneo ; from the Congo, in Africa ; from Moreton Bay, 

 in Australia ; and from a variety of localities in South 

 America. 



Of the eighteen specimens contained in the Collection, 

 sixteen are females. One male and one female from 

 Aveyros, March 14th and 17th ; one female from Faro, 

 April 10th ; seven females from E. Madeira, May 24th 

 and 26th ; one female from San Bonte, E. Negro, June 

 16th ; five females from E. Jurua, Oct. 23rd, 24th, and 

 29th ; one male from E. Javary, Nov. 30th ; one female 

 from Santarem, Feb. 2nd, 1875. In these fresh speci- 

 mens the markings of the under side are much more 

 vivid, and the hyaline patches iridescent pinkish. 



