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terminal line ochreous white, minutely waved, almost obsolete on 

 the grey area, with slight black streaks before and beyond it below 

 costa and slight blank mark before it below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules defined on inner side by grey. Hind 

 wing h5?aline, the veins, terminal area, and inner margin fuscoiis 

 black, the cilia wliite with a dark line through them towards apex ; 

 the underside with dark striga from middle of costa. , 



Ab. 1. Fore wing darker with some fuscous suffusion on basal 

 area. 



Ab. 2. Fore sving with the pale area greyish ochreous. 



5 . Fore -wing gre3--white, the medial line oblique to vein 1 and 

 with blackish spot before it below submedian fold. 



Ab. 3. Patagia and the pale area of fore wing creamy yellow. 



If(tb. Ceylon [Lindesay), 1 $ ; Malay States, Province 

 Wellesley ; Scngapore {Ridley, Groivfooi), 9 J , 7 2 ; Java. 

 {HorsMd), 1 S type ; Br. JST. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 cJ . 

 Exp. 38-46 millim^. 



6384. Stictoptera vitiensis, n. sp. 



Steiria variubih's, Dnice, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 223, pi. 13. ff. 3, 4 (nee Moore). 



d . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous ; patagia 

 black-brown edged with rufous above ; tarsi banded ochreous and 

 black-brown ; abdomen grey-brown with reddish ochreous patch at 

 base, the ventral surface white. Fore wing black-brown, the 

 costal area with ochreous and rufous patches at subbasal and 

 antemedial lines and from middle to near ai)ex, the inner margin 

 narrowly ochreous and rufous from near base to the terminal area, 

 which is ochreous and rufous below vein 5 ; a waved red-brown 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 hardly traceable, sinuous; claviform and orbicular represented by 

 slight black striae at their extremities ; reniform defined by blackish, 

 and with blackish striga in centre, and reddish ochreous spot on 

 inner edge ; medial line hardly traceable, excurved below costa, 

 straight to submedian fold, then oblique and sinuous ; postmedial 

 line double, red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4; subterminal line defined by two faint 

 wedge-shaped black marks on inner side below costa, then by 

 slight spots on inner side and a waved line on outer, more distinct 

 and red-brown on the pale area ; a series of small dark spots just 

 before termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; cilia w^hitish ; the underside wdth oblique medial 

 and postmedial brown bars from costa. 



.A.b. 1. Patagia pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; abdomen wnth 

 the crest on 3rd segment blackish ; fore wing pale ochreous tinged 

 with rufous, the costal area towards apex, the inner margin from 

 middle, and the terminal area below vein 5 red-brown, the markings 

 almost completely obsolete. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing more uniform red-brown, 

 the last with darker streaks in interspaces of costal area. 



