STlCTOi'XElU. 15o 



6380. Stictoptera signifera. 



iria signifera, Wlk. xiii. 1136 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii. p. 401. 

 dirtha. ferromixfa, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 162 (1864); 



Steir 

 Gadiri 



Swinh. Cat. Hefc. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91. 

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

 Minica nigrilinea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 176 (1864). 

 Briirda contiorbata, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc Glasg. i. p. 354 (1869) ; 



Waterh. Aid, ii. pi. 178. f. 3. 

 Stictoptera transversa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xx. p. 30, pi. iii. f. 18 (1877). 

 Stictoptera ]ja>cilosoma, Saalui. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 276 ; id. Lep. 



Madag. p. 491, S. 99, 120. 

 Stictoptera Itetifica, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277 ; id. Lep. Madag. 



p. 492, f. 100. 

 Stictoptera scmipartita, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277 : id. Lep. 



Madag. p. 492, f. 124. 

 Stictoptera Jlavohasalis, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 277. 

 Steiria subobliqua, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 492, f. 121 (nee Wlk.). 



J . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black ; palpi 

 ochreous in front; pectus ochreous ; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral 

 Burface ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 

 purj)lish grey ; subbasal line black, double at costa, waved, ending 

 at vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards above 

 inner margin to near the medial line ; antemedial line double, 

 waved, excurved below costa and above inner margin ; claviform 

 represented by a slight black mark at extremity, the orbicular by 

 some yellow and black scales on outer edge ; reniform defined by 

 black and with tuft of black scales in centre ; medial line black, 

 incurved below costa, oblique to submedian Ibid, then sinuous ; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, some fuscous on its outer edge between 

 veins 5 and 2 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, waved, with 

 slight black streaks before and beyond it below costa ; a terminal 

 series of blackish lunules defined on inner side \>y grey ; cilia with 

 pale poiuts at the veins. Hind wing with the interspaces of basal 

 half hyaline, the veins, terminal half, and inner margin fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white at base and tips ; the underside with a dark 

 striga from middle of costa. 



Ab. 1. Tips of tegiilee, the patagia, and a large patch on basal 

 half of fore wing bright yellow, the patch extending to medial line 

 at median nervure. 



$ . Pore wing red-brown to the medial line which is oblique to 

 just above inner margin, the terminal half greyer. 



Ab, 2. nigrilinea. Fore wing with black streak on median 

 nervure. 



Ab. 3. humeralis. Fore wing with the base of costa yellow. 



Ab. 4. Similar to ab. 1. 



Ab. 5. Thorax and basal half of fore wing to the medial line 

 yellow. 



Ab. 6. Similar, but fore wing with black streak on median 

 nervure. 



