AtflSONETJKA. SPIREDONIA. 457 



SECT. II. Fore wing not produced at apex, the outer margin much 

 less oblique ; hind wing with veins 6 and 7 from cell. 



2397. Anisoneura salebrosa, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 161 ; C.fy #.no. 2,531. 



. Differs from Tiypocyanea in being darker, more uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous, and with a purplish tinge ; head and collar 

 not black. Fore wing with the lines less oblique, without patches 

 of yellow and black scales below and beyond cell ; an ochreous 

 patch beyond centre of postmedial line, with an oblique black 

 streak above it. Hind wing with the postmedial line more waved 

 and without the indistinct line beyond it. Underside pale without 

 purplish suffusion and with two dark medial and a pale submar- 

 ginal line. 



Hob. Sylhet; Poona. Exp. 70 inillim. 



Genus SPIREDONIA. 



Speiredonia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 272 (1818). 

 Sericia, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 172 (1852). ' 



Type, S. feducia, Stoll. 



Range. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 

 Differs from the 2nd section of Anisoneura in the mid tibia3 not 

 being spined. 



2398. Spiredonia anops, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 173 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 164, fig. 7 ; C. $ S. no. 2555. 



Black-brown shot with purple. Fore wing with waved subbasal, 

 antemedial, and medial black lines ; a spot in cell ; a double post- 

 medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle of cell ; an 



Fig. 258. Spiredonia anops, <$ . }. 



indistinct sinuous submarginal double line. Hind wing with 

 medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double submarginal 

 line. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; Aus- 

 tralia. Exp. 7~0-78 millim. 



