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2399. Spiredonia alix, Guen. Noct. iii,p. 171. 



Tavia substruens, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1276 ; C. $ S. no. 2557. 



Syrnia sparsa, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1280. 



Sericia calamistrata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 26 ; C. fy S. no. 2556. 



Differs from anops in being fuscous brown with hardly any 

 purple shot. Fore wing with two sinuations in the postmedial line 

 beyond the cell, with black inside them and forming a figure 3, the 

 line more regularly waved above inner margin ; the double sub- 

 marginal line regularly waved. Hind wing with the double waved 

 submarginal line more prominent ; underside with the inner area 

 purplish, with black medial and white subanal spots. 



Typical alix has some white suffusion on postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines of both wings, whilst substruens is uniformly dark. 



Hab. Sind ; N.W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Andamans ; 

 ISicobars ; Java. Exp. 56-64 millitn. 



2400. Spiredonia feducia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v, pi. 36, fig. 3 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 2552. 

 Phalaena zamis, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v, pi. 36, fig. 11 ; C. fy S. 



no. 2554. 



Speiredonia retrahens, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p'. 1294; C. 8f S. no. 2553. 

 Sericia parvipennis, J[7/r. Cat. xiv, p. \'2^~. 

 Speiredonia conspicua, Jk\>li1. YiWx. \<>r. pi. 113, fig. 7. 

 Onimatophora albifascia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 947. 



Differs from alix in the middle loop of the figure 3 on fore wing 

 being produced inwards almost to the discocellulars ; a rufous spot 

 in cell. 



Feducia and parvipennis are small forms ; the former has some 

 purplish grey patches on both wings, the latter has ochreous patches 

 on disk and centre of margin of both wings. 



Zamis, retrahens, and albifascia are large forms ; the first has 

 purplish patches on both wings, in the 2nd these are very promi- 

 nent ; whilst in the 3rd there is ochreous or white suffusion on 

 the submarginal area; of fore wing and postmedial area of hind 

 wing. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans; Java. 

 Exp. 64-78 millim. 



Genus NYCTIPAO. 



Nyctipao, Hubn. Verz. p. 271 (1818). 



Argiva, Hubn. Verz. p. 272. 



Patula, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 176 (1852). 



Type, N. crepuscularis, Linn. 



Range. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 

 Differs from Spiredonia in the mid and hind tibiae being spined 

 and almost naked ; the fore wing broader. 



