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and almost straight ; postmedial line double, black filled in with 
white and defined on outer side by blackish, bent ontwards below 
costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line 
double, black filled in with white, dentate, with black streaks 
beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal series of black lunules. 
Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal area fuscous, some 
white on termen towards tornus ; cilia white; the underside with 
black discoidal striga, points at lower angle of cell, and black striga 
trom middle of costa. 
Hab. Mauay Srares, Province Wellesley (Distant), Perak (Doherty), 
in Coll. Druce ; Borneo, Sarawak (Meade- Waldo), 1 g type. Exp. 
45 millim, 
6392. Stictoptera semialba. (Plate CLXXVIIL. fig. 4.) 
Minica semialba, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soce., Zool. vii. p. 175 (1864); Hmpsn. 
Moths Ind. i. p. 401; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91. 
Head, tegule, and prothorax red-brown ; thorax white slightly 
mixed with brown, the patagia with a few black seales; pectus 
ochreous white, the legs grey suffused with rufous; abdomen white 
mixed with fuscous brown, the crest on 3rd segment black. Fore 
wing white faintly tinged with olive-yellow and irrorated with 
brown; a triangular chocolate-brown patch on base of costa, with 
the shght subbasal line from it to vein 1, above which there is 
sometimes a black spot ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 
claviform represented by a black point at its extremity, the 
orbicular by a white and black bar on its outer edge; medial line 
black, sinuous, incurved at the veins; the outer half of medial 
area purplish red-brown extending on costal area to apex; reniform 
with incomplete white annulus defined by black and slight tuft of 
black scales in centre; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards 
below costa, then waved and defined on outer side by purplish 
fuscous, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; subterminal line 
white slightly defined on each side by brown, with two short black 
streaks before aud beyond it below costa and crossed below vein 2 
by a black streak on an oblique purple-brown fascia from the 
postmedial line, dentate; a series of small rather lunulate black 
spots just before termen; cilia brownish with a fine pale line 
at base. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal area broadly 
fuscous brown; cilia white with a brownish line through them; 
the underside with slight discoidal lunule and medial and post- 
medial strise from costa. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the red-brown patch at base of costa 
smaller, the outer medial area not suffused with red-brown. 
Ab. 2. Similar, but fore wing with the median neryure and 
vein 1 to postmedial line streaked with black. 
Hab, Assam, Khasis, 1 9 ; Srycavorn (Lidiey), 2 ¢ ; Bornno, 
2, Sarawak (Wallace), type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 46-50 
millim, 
