STICTOFTEBA. 401 



Type, S. cucullioides, Guen. 



Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi slender and nearly naked, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd long; antennae very long and slender; thorax 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal tufts on proximal seg- 

 ments ; tibiae slightly hairy. Fore wing rather long and narrow, 

 with the cilia crenulate ; a small tuft of raised scales on the 

 reniform. Frenulum of male very strong ; single in female. 



SECT. I. Fore wing of male produced at apex. 



2283. Stictoptera cucullioides, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 52. 



Dandaca coluniba, Wilt. Cat. ix, p. 149; C. # S. no. 1791. 

 Steiria subobliqua, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1136 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 159, figs. 4, 4 a (larva) ; C. fy S. no. 2365. 

 Minica confluens, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1140. 

 Steiria signifera, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1136. 

 Steiria humeralis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 174. 

 Steiria ferrifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 173. 

 Minica semialba, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 175. 

 Minica nigrilinea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 176. 

 Stictoptera grisea, Moore. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 67 ; C. fy S. no. 2362. 

 Briarda conturbata, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i, p. 354. 

 Steiria variabilis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 164 ; C. fy S. no. 2367. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing grey-brown, with numerous indistinct waved lines ; the 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata indistinct, the latter with a few 

 raised scales on it ; a series of small marginal lunules. Hind 

 wing opalescent hyaline ; the veins and broad outer band fuscous ; 

 the cilia pale. 



The first set of forms is small : cucullioides having the 

 ground-colour of fore wing rufous, with a grey fascia from base to 



outer margin occupying the greater 

 part of the wing, this fascia in 

 another form being ochreous 

 white; in subobliqua humeralis 

 the basal half is ochreous, with 

 black streaks on it as far as an 

 oblique medial line, the outer area 

 being greyer or in specimens from 

 223 W. Africa very dark, and the 



Stictoptera cucMioides, <$. l. hyaline area of hind wing reduced. 



In vanahilis this basal area is pale 

 or dark rufous, and there are dark submarginal marks ; in con- 

 fluens the basal area is smoky black ; tiffnifera is more uniformly 

 variegated with rufous; coJumba is green with rufous spots and 

 with a large subbasal rufous patch. 



The second set of forms is larger : grisea being grey marked with 



rufous ; ferrifera with a dark spot beyond the postmedial line ; 



semialba with white blotches on the basal half ; whilst in a Simla 



specimen the thorax is very dark with the patagia ochreous ; the 



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