156 



KocruiD.i;. 



Ab. 7. Fore Aving with the basal half dark brown tinged with 

 grey. — Amboiiia. 



Ab. 8. pcecilosoma. Similar to the normal male. — Madagascar. 



Ab. 9. semlpartita. Fore wing with red patch on basal area and 

 some red bej-ond postmedial line. — Madagascar. 



Ab. 10. hetifica. Fore wing red-brown with the outer half of 

 medial area and the terminal area blue-grey. — Madagascar. 



Jrlah. S. Nigeria, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso (Garter), 1 2 , Old 

 Calabar {Cockhurn), 1 §, Sapele (/Sa'/vf^isoji), 1 §; CoJ5"Go(^¥«rs(ien), 

 1 2 type conturbata ; Madagascar ; Andamans, 1 $ ; Singapore 

 (Ridley), 6 J , 7 ? ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 2 c? , 2 $ type, 

 Kuching (Shelf ord), 1 c? , 1 $ , Paku (S/iel/ord), 1 t^ ; Java ; 

 Awboina (J, J. Walker), 1 $ . Krj), 3U-40 millim. 



63S1. Stictoptera subobliqua. 



Siciria suhobliqua, Wlk. xiii. 1136 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 121, 



pi. 159. ff.4a,ib; H.mpsa. Motha Incl. ii. p. 401. 

 Steiria variabilis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 164 (1882) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 120, pi. 159. f. 5. 



S . (variabilis.) Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous 

 and rufous, the tegulee with blackish annuli, the patagia with 

 blackish bars ; pectus ochreous ; tibiae streaked with blackish ; 

 abdomen brown, the crest on 3rd segment blackish, the ventral 

 surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing red-brown tinged with 

 greyish and mixed with some ochreous ; subbasal line represented 

 by double black strife from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin to near medial line ; claviform slightly defined by 

 blackish at extremity ; orbicular defined by blackish on outer side ; 

 reniform slightly defined by blackish and with tuft of black scales 

 in centre ; medial line black, slightly sinuous, oblique fi'om costa 

 to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to 

 black points on the veins, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, minutely 

 waved, with black streaks before and beyond it below the costa, 

 and minute black streaks before it in the interspaces; a series of 

 slight black lunules just before termen defined on inner side by 

 white. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, terminal area, and inner 

 margin black-brown ; cilia ochreous Avhite with a slight dark line 

 through them ; the underside with slight dark discoidal striga and 

 striga from middle of costa. 



Ab. 1, Fore wing with reddish ochreous patch on antemedial 

 area from costa to vein 1. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the whole basal half reddish ochreous. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the basal half pale ochreous with a 

 broad black -brown fascia below the cell. 



