218 Col. C. Svvinhoe on 7iew 



apex, which is the termination of a submarginal lunulate 

 blackish line. Hind wings with two dark sinuous pink 

 discal bands and a similar marginal band. Underside with 

 the fore wings suffused with pink ; a brown mark at the end 

 of the cell and two yellow subapical spots ; costal border 

 mouse-coloured, hinder marginal space pale, hind wings 

 suffused with mouse-colour; the female is paler, with the 

 central patch much smaller. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Singapore [Davison). Two males, one female. 



Family Catephidae. 



Stictoptera timesia^ sp. n. 



S ? . Antennffi, palpi, head, and body fawn-colour, thorax 

 brown on each side. Fore wings blackish brown, with a 

 pale fawn-coloured apical costal patch and with the whole of 

 the lower portion of the wing from the centre of the outer 

 margin to the hinder margin one third from base hindwards 

 of the same colour ; this space is striated with brown, and 

 into the outer portion of it a blackish-brown streak runs from 

 the blackish-brown space. Hind wings blue-white, semi- 

 hyaline, with brown veins and a broad black-brown border. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Singapore [Davison). A long series. 



This insect is figured by Druce as a var. of Stictoptera 

 [Steira) variahilis, Moore, in P. Z. S. 1.888,, p. 223, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 4 ; his figure 3 represents S. cucuUtoides, Guen. The 

 different species of the genus Stictoptera, with the exception 

 of grisea, Moore, do not appear to be variable. Considerable 

 contusion appears to exist with reference to this genus ; each 

 species has its own characteristic line-markings whatever 

 shade the colour of the insect may be. S. grisea, Moore, = 

 ftrrifera, \\ alker, = var, jylagifera, Walker. S. variahilis^ 

 Moore, S. cucu/lioides, Guen., S. subobliqua, Walker, S. tra- 

 jicieiis^ Walker, S. signifera, Walker, and ^, timesia, mihi, 

 are all good and constant species, the shades of colour which 

 are not characteristic varying much in the sexes. I have 

 examined long series of these different species in my museum 

 and in the Oxford University Museum collected by Wallace. 



Family Geometridae, 



Episothalma ocellata, sp. n. 

 c? , Of a uniform green colour, as in sisunaga ; costa of 



