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Sect. III. Fore wing narrow, tlie costa and inner margin subpra-allel, 



A. Hind wing with the outer edge of the hyaline area regular ; 



fore wing pale ochreous brown, 

 «. Fore wing witii the medial line obliqne from costa to 



snbniedian fold ; reniforni absent anxmia. 



h. Fore wing with the medial line oblique from costa to reni- 



form which is defined by black and ratlier triangular ... olivasccng. 



B. Hind wing with the outer edge of the hyaline area irregular ; 



fore wing blaek-browu , ecti':ei. 



6376. Stictoptera ansemia, (Plate CLXXVH. fig. 28.) 



Siicloidera ancsuua, Hnipsn. A. M. N. H, (7) xvi. p. 53(5 (1905). 



5 . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale brown ; frons 

 white ; abdomen grey- white with slight dark dorsal crests, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing ochreous white ; a very oblique 

 wedge-shaped brown mark from costa before middle to subraedian 

 fold with a slight erect line from its extremity to inner margin ; 

 some slight brownish marks on terminal half of costa ; postmedial 

 line represented by a series of dark striae from vein 7 to inner 

 margin, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then incurved and with 

 some greyish suffusion beyond them ; subterminal line whitish, 

 minutely waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, with small dentate black mark before i(; and streak 

 beyond it below costa, and slight blackish marks before it and 

 fuscous suffusion beyond it from vein 5 to inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunulas defined by white on inner side. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous, the interspaces of basal half hyaline. 



Hah. SoLOMOif Is., 1 5 type. Kvjp. 30 millim. 



6377. Stictoptera olivascens. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 29.) 



Stictoptera olivascens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 164 (1882) ; Hmpsii. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 403. 



9 . Head, tegulaj, and patagial crests red-brown mixed with 

 blackish and pale olive-brown, the rest of patagia and thorax pale 

 olive-brown ; tibiie and tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen pale 

 brown, the crest on 3rd segment black. Fore wing pale olive 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a patch of purple-brown at middle of 

 costa, the terminal area suffused with purple-brown except towards 

 apex ; subbasal line represented by double dark points on and 

 below costa, the antemedial line by faint double striae at costa and 

 inner margin ; claviform and orbicular represented by minute tufts 

 of black scales at their extremities ; reniform defined by black, 

 somewhat triangular ; medial line indistinct, dark, oblique from 

 costa to reniform, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ; postmedial 

 line hardly traceable, double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved and with pale and black points beyond it on 

 the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish with 



