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white line at base and whitish tips; the underside with slight 
discoidal lunule and blackish bar from middle of costa. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the rufous pateh extending to postmedial 
line leaving a blackish patch at middle of costa. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing without the rufous patch. 
@. Head and tegule ochreous suffused with rufous, the rest of 
thorax red brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown; fore wing 
greenish grey suffused in parts with rufous and purplish fuscous and 
irrorated with brown. 
Ab. 3. Thorax and fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 2 3, 2 9 type, Mt. Kebea 
(Pratt),2 6,29. Hap. 42-50 millim. 
6395. Stictoptera ferrifera. (Plate CLXXVIIL. fig. 7.) 
Steiria ferrifera, Wik. Journ, Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 173 (1864) ; Himpsn. 
Moths Ind. ii. p. 401; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91; Semper, 
Reisen Phil., Schmett. i. p. 536, pl. 60. f. 12. 
3. Head and thorax purplish red-brown; pectus ochreous 
white; legs red- brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 
brown. Fore wing red-brown glossed with purplish grey, the area 
just beyond and below end of cell paler ; subbasal line indistinct, 
double, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, 
waved; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity : 
orbicular slightly defined by blackish on outer side only ; reniform 
defined by blackish and with tuft of blackish scales in centre ; 
medial line blackish, almost straight, slightly oblique from costa to 
submedian fold, then erect ; postmedial line double filled in with 
pale red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved 
and produced to slight points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, 
a faint whitish line beyond it; sabterminal line indistinct, double, 
dark, minutely dentate, filled in with white between veins 4 and 2, 
with slight dentate black marks before it below costa and some 
white irroration before it below veins 4, 3 and beyond it on inner 
half, slightly incurved between veins 3 and 2; a series of dark 
strize just before termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, terminal 
area and inner margin fuscous brown; cilia white with a brown 
line through them; the underside with slight dark discoidal 
lunule and striga from middle of costa. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with some greenish yellow on subbasal line, 
before the reniform, before the postmedial line, and on terminal 
area below middle. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with broad inverted V-shaped whitish patch 
between subbasal and medial lines not extending below vein 1. 
@. Head and tegule more ochreous ; thorax white mixed with 
red-brown; abdomen grey-white tinged with brown; fore wing 
white irrorated with brown and suffused in parts with red-brown 
and purple-brown. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with some greenish yellow suffusion on outer 
half of medial area and on terminal area below vein 38. 
