STICTOPTERA, 155 
6380. Stictoptera signifera. 
Steiria signifera, Wik. xiii. 1136 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 401. 
Gadirtha ferromixta, Wik. Journ. Linn, Soe., Zool. vii. p. 162 (1864) ; 
Swinh. Cat, Het. Mus, Oxon. ii. p. 91. : 
Steiria humeralis, W\k. Journ Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 174 (1864). 
Minica nigrilinea, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vit. p. 176 (1864). 
Briarda conturbata, Wik. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soe. Glasg. i. p. 304 (1869) ; 
Waterh, Aid, ii. pl. 178. f. 3. 
Stictoptera transversa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xx. p. 30, pl. iii. f. 18 (1877). 
Stictoptera pecilosoma, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 276; id. Lep. 
Madag. p. 491, ff. 99. 120, 
Stictoptera letifica, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277; 
p. 492, f. 100. , 
Stictoptera semipartita, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277: id. Lep. 
Madag. p. 492, f. 124. 
Stictoptera flavobasalis, Sarlm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277. 
Steiria subobliqua, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 492, f. 121 (nee WI1k.). 
id, Lep. Madag, 
g. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black; palpi 
ochreous in front; pectus ochreous ; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed 
with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral 
surface ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 
purplish grey ; subbasal line black, double at costa, waved, ending 
at vein 1; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards above 
inner margin to near the medial line; antemedial line double, 
waved, excurved below costa and above inner margin ; claviform 
represented by a slight black mark at extremity, the orbicular by 
some yellow and black scales on outer edge ; reniform defined by 
black and with tuft of black scales in centre; medial line black, 
incurved below costa, oblique to submedian fold, then sinuous ; 
postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, 
incurved below vein 4, some fuscous on its outer edge between 
veins 5 and 2; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, waved, with 
slight black streaks before and beyond it below costa ; a terminal 
series of blackish lunules defined on inner side by grey; cilia with 
pale points at the veins. Hind wing with the interspaces of basal 
half hyaline, the veins, terminal half, and inner margin fuscous 
brown; cilia white at base and tips; the underside with a dark 
striga from middle of costa. 
Ab. 1. Tips of tegule, the patagia, and a large patch on basal 
half of fore wing bright yellow, the patch extending to medial line 
at median nervure. 
Q@. Fore wing red-brown to the medial line which is oblique to 
just above inner margin, the terminal half greyer. 
Ab. 2. nigrilinea, Fore wing with black streak on median 
nervure. 
Ab. 3. humeralis. Fore wing with the base of costa yellow. 
Ab. 4. Similar to ab. 1. 
Ab. 5. Thorax and basal half of fore wing to the medial line 
yellow. 
Ab. 6. Similar, but fore wing with black streak on median 
nervure, 
