154 xocxnn.-E. 



Ik Hind wing witli the liyaliiie area iiol exf.Piiding to 

 far beyond the cell, the terminal halt dark. 

 a}. Fore wing not green. 



a^. Fore wing without series of black spots on outer 

 edge of postraedial line. 

 a3. Fore wing without subbasal black spot in 

 subaiedian fold. 

 a*. Fore wing not thickly striated with 

 brown, 

 o". Fore wing almost entirely suffused with 

 black except on terminal area, a black 

 fascia extending to termen below apex sfij<jia. 

 Ifi. Fore wing without black fascia extending 

 to termen below apex. 

 cfi. Fore wing with wliitish spot before 



subtorminal line in submedian fold . alhipuncfa. 

 h^. Fore wing without whitish spot before 



subterminal line in submedian fold microthyris. 

 h*. Fore wing thickly striated with brown ... midtistriala. 

 }fi. Fore wing with subbasal black spot in sub- 

 median fold rcpleta. 



h". Fore wing with series of black spots on outer 



edge of postmedial line confluens. 



h^. Fore wing green columha. 



6379. Stictoptera trajiciens. 



Steiria trajiciens, Wlk. xiii. 1137 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 122, 



pi. 158. f. 12 ; Hropsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 402. 

 Steiria (squilinea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 174 (1864). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some grey ; 

 pectus ochreous white; abdomen grey -brown, the ventral surface 

 ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing reddish browu suffused 

 with purplish grey ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to vein 1, 

 double at costa ; antemedial line double, extremely strongly dentate 

 with very long teeth inwards on the veins and outwards in the 

 interspaces ; medial line somewhat oblique and straight from costa 

 to postmedial line at submedian fold, then very slightly waved, 

 with ridges of raised blackish scales on and just beyond it at end 

 of cell ; postmedial line double, hardly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 very slightly bent inwards at vein 3, then sinuous, the veins beyond 

 it with dark streaks slightly defined by grey ; subterminal line 

 whitish, strongly dentate to vein 4, then less dentate, oblique, and 

 with small white spot at submedian fold ; some w^hitish striae just 

 before termen from below vein 5 to tornus. Hind wing hyaline 

 white, the veins, terminal area, and inner margin fuscous brown ; 

 cilia white with a dark line through them ; the underside with 

 dark bar from middle of costa. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris, 1 $ ; Ceylon, 1 S type ; Singapork 

 {Ridley), 3 cT , 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 2 (5" , 1 ? type 

 cecpdlinea ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 (j" , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 

 1 d , 1 $ . E.cp. 34-38 millim. 



