SPEIREDONIA. 25*; 



*7468. Speiredonia voluta. 



Sjjfi-ama voluta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. J 15. f. 9 (1874). 



5 . Head and thorax pale groy tinged with brown ; palpi red- 

 brown, scarlet at base ; frons and tegulse red-brown; antennae with 

 the shaft white above ; pectus scarlet ; legs grey-brown, the 

 femora tinged with scai'let ; abdomen scarlet, tiie dorsum pale grey 

 with reddish brown bands narrowing to a point on 5th segment. 

 Fore wing pale grey tinged in parts with reddish brown ; an 

 oblique subbasal red-brown striga from oosta ; anteraedial line 

 ochreous whitish, ratber diffused, defined on outer side by diffused 

 red-brown, strongly excurved to median nervure, then oblique; an 

 inverted comma-shaped black-brown discoidal mark edged on inner 

 side and below by deep black and defined on outer side and below 

 by a fine whitish line; medial line fine, red-brown, slightly waved, 

 strongly excurved to vein 4, then oblique; postmedial line reddish 

 brown, with darker points at the veins, oblique to vein 6, then 

 inwardly oblique, defined on outer side by yellowish white ; a 

 diffused oblique rufous streak from apex to the outer part of the 

 discoidal mark, wedge-shaped before the postmedial line; subter- 

 minal line slight, double, oblique, from the rufous streak to inner 

 margin ; a patch of rufous suffusion at middle of terminal area; a 

 dentate brown line before terraen with minute black points at the 

 interspaces, and a fine waved brown line just before termen. Hind 

 wing pale ochreous grej'ish tinged in parts with red-brown, the 

 inner area yellowish ; an oblique red-brown antemedial line ; a 

 faint red-brown medial shade ; postmedial line red-brown, minutely 

 waved, defined on outer side by ochreous whitish ; subterminalline 

 double, dark red-brown, rather diffused, filled in with pale ochreous; 

 a patch of red-brown suffusion at middle of terminal area, a dentate 

 brown line with dark points in the interspaces before termen, and 

 fine waved brown line just before termen. Underside pale scarlet; 

 fore wing with minute brown spots in middle of cell and on disco-, 

 cellulars, oblique medial line, postmedial line excurved below costa, 

 rather diffused subterminal line, and terminal shade with dark 

 points before it on the interspaces; hind wing with minute dis- 

 coidal spot, curved minutely waved medial and postmedial lines, 

 curved subterminal line, and series of points before termen. 



Bab. Moluccas, type f ^. in Coll. Eothschild. Kiy. 70 millim. 



74G9. Speiredonia remota. (Plate CCX. figs. 5 j , 6 ^ .) 



Spirama remota, Feld. Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xliii. p. 43 (1861). 

 82nra7nia fmiestis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (;'->) xiii. p. 202 (18S4). 



J . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi at base and in front of 

 2nd joint scarlet, coxse and fringe of hair on femora scarlet ; abdo- 

 men black-brown, the three terminal segments and ventral surface 



