( 299 ) 



?. Distal margin of forewiiig convex iu middle, not lobed. 



Moore's figure of the specimen is coarse. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Only 1 ? (f>//>i') Iniown, in tlip Rritisli Museum. 



r, ('. decolor ciiroit snbsj). nov 



? . Larger than the Indian forms, broader winged, more clayish, head and 

 thorax somewhat olivaceous, lobe R-'' of forewing less prominent than in dec. decolor.. 

 Vaginal plate (PI. XVII. f. 11) much broader distally. 



Hah. Milne Bay, Brit. New Guinea. 



One ? in tlie Tring Museum, Dec. IsfiS (A. S. Meek). 



LXXVI. SMERINTHULUS.— Typns : q>,„drijn,„rtatii.i. 



SmerhMiix, Moore {mm Latreille, 1802), Pi-oc. Znnl. Sm: Lmd. p. .5158 (187-J). 



Mimas, Butler (««-« Hiibner, 1822), ibhl. p. .310 (1876). 



Triplogoii, id. {mn Boisduval, 1875), Trans. Zuol. Soc. Lniul. ix. p. 588 (1877) (partim). 



Munimhu, Kirby («-.« Moore, 1882), Cni. Lep. Het. i. p. 707 (18i)2). 



DiVma, id. (wm D.alman, 181C), !.<•. p. 70'.1 (1892). 



Cypa. Hamp.son (nnn Walker, 1864), in Blanf., Finimi. liril. /«./., .)/.-//m i. p. 71 (1892). 



Smerhdldilns Huwe, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xl. p. .370 (18;i5) (type : ijiiadri/iiiiirlfitns). 



cJ?. Differs from Ci/pa iu the following characters: tongne not taberenlose 

 near base. Pilifer vestigial, with few scales or bristles, or naked. End-segment of 

 antenna short, triangular in side-view, penultimate segment longer than iu C;//m, 

 antennae of ? with jwolonged ciliae ; eighth tergite of S with a lirush of prolonged 

 scales at the sides and at end, appearing trilobate. Penis-sheatli without armature. 

 S(!^ and R' of hindwing stalked or not. 



Early stages not known. 



Nub. China, North India to Borneo and Java. 



Six species. 



Key to the species : 



a. SC^ and K' of hindwing on a long stalk . . b. 



SC^ and R' of hindwing not stalked . 258. .S'. c/u'neiisi.^. 



h. Hindwing with a blackish shadowy post- 



discal baud; forewing (cJ) with large 



creamy postdiscal jjatcli ; postdiscal 



line of underside not prominent . 254. <S'. j)e.rcer.ia. 



Hindwing without a blackish shadowy 



postdiscal band c. 



c. Mesothoracic tegula with a large yellow 



patch ; hindwing brown-black . 257. 6'. dohrni. 



Mesothoracic tegula without yellow patch . e. 



d. Forewing above with a triangular brown- 



edged Hubajiical costal jiatch . . 259. ,S'. (?) dccovdtitx. 

 Forewing al)ove without a triangular 



bruwii-(Migc(l snbajiicai costal jiatch . 256. S. quadripiuirUdn.-i, and 



255. S. terraneii. 



