156 NOCIVIDE, 
Ab. 7. Fore wing with the basal half dark brown tinged with 
grey.—Amboina. 
Ab. 8. pecilosoma. Similar to the normal male.—Madagascar. 
Ab. 9. semipartita, Fore wing with red patch on basal area and 
some red beyond postmedial line.—Madagasear. 
Ab. 10. letifica. Fore wing red-brown with the outer half of 
medial area and the terminal area blue-grey.— Madagascar. 
Hab. S. Nierrta, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso (Carter), 1 9, Old 
Calabar (Cockburn), 1 2 , Sapele (Sampson), 1 2 ; Conco (Mursden), 
1 9 type conturbata; Manpacascar; ANnpamMANs, 1 9; Sinearore 
(Itidley), 6 3, 7 9; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 2 5,2 2 type, 
Kuching (Shelford), 1 6, 1 9, Paku (Shelford), 1 g; Java; 
AmBorna (J, J. Walker), 1 9. Hvp, 30-40 millim. 
6381. Stictoptera subobliqua. 
Steiria subobliqua, W1k. xiii. 1136 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iti. p. 121, 
pl. 159. ff. 4¢, 40; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 401. 
Steiria variabilis, Moore, Lep, Atk. p. 164 (1882); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 
p. 120; pl. 159. £5. 
3. (variabilis.) Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous 
and rufous, the tegule with blackish annuli, the patagia with 
blackish bars; pectus ochreous; tibiwe streaked with blackish ; 
abdomen brown, the crest on 3rd segment blackish, the ventral 
surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing red-brown tinged with 
greyish and mixed with some ochreous ; subbasal line represented 
by double black strive from costa; antemedial line indistinct, 
double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 
inner margin to near medial line; claviform slightly defined by 
blackish at extremity; orbicular defined by blackish on outer side ; 
reniform slightly defined by blackish and with tuft of black scales 
in centre; medial line black, slightly sinuous, oblique from costa 
to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, 
bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to 
black points on the veins, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 
below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, minutely 
waved, with black streaks before and beyond it below the costa, 
and minute black streaks before it in the interspaces; a series of 
slight black lunules just before termen defined on inner side by 
white. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, terminal area, and inner 
margin black-brown; cilia ochreous white with a slight dark line 
through them; the underside with slight dark discoidal striga and 
striga from middle of costa. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with reddish ochreous patch on antemedial 
area from costa to vein 1. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the whole basal half reddish ochreous. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with the basal half pale ochreous with a 
broad black-brown fascia below the cell. 
