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CATALOGUE OF 



Div. 6. 



Sirthenea, Spin. 



55. Pirates flaviceps. 



Easahus flaviceps, Sgnl. A. S. E. F.SmeSir. viii.9r>0— Sirthenea flaviceps, 

 Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 114 ; A/a. K. V. Ak. Fork, xxiii. 252. 



Madagascar. 



South Asia. 

 R. punctum and R. bipunctatus are omitted in the following synopsis. 



A. Fore wings with no black white-bordered patches. 



a. Membrane pale at the tip. 



* Hind lobe of the prothorax black. 



t Antenna; not banded. apicalis, cordatus, ochropterus, Singalensis. 



ft Antennae banded. .... Cumingi. 

 ** Hind lobe of the prothorax luteous. 

 f Fore wings dark, with three pale spots. 



t Antennae dark. .... decisus. 



\X Antennae pale ----- sexmaculatus. 



ff Curium pale, with a brown stripe. - - strigifer. 



Iff Corium pale, brown at the base and at the lip. - quadrinotatus. 



tttt Corium brown, with a pale mark. - - basifer. 



ttff j" Curium wholly pale, or with a black spot. - posticus, 



*** Hind lobe of the prothorax red. - - mutilloides. 



b. Membrane dark at the tip. 



* Legs black. 



§ Fore wings with a luteous mark. - - Sinicus. 

 §§ Fore wings with no markings. 



X Fore wings complete. - Sinensis. 



X X Fore wings incomplete. ... turpis. 

 ** Four anierior legs dark. 



f Middle femora black. - - - - cyaneus. 



ff Middle femora red. ... - rufifemur. 



*** Four anterior legs partly black. - - diffinis. 



**** Tarsi and tips of the tibiae reddish. - - lepluroides. 



***** Four anterior legs pale. 



f Prothorax black, 

 f f Legs partly black. 



XX Le^s not partly black. 



§ Fore wings not banded. 

 X Fore wings with markings. 

 X X Fore wings with no markings. - 

 §S Fore wings banded. - 

 |f Prothorax pale. 

 X Abdomen black. ... 



XX Abdomen not black. - - - 



( . Membrane cinereous. - 



B. Fore wings with black white-bordered patches. 



fuscicornis. 



cordiger, adjunctus. 



naboides. 



inscriplus. 



instabilis. 



latifer. 

 hybridus. 



pictus. 



