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6393. Stictoptera grisea. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Stictoptera grisea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 67 ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. 

 p. 401. 



Head and tegulae rufous ; palpi streaked with blact above ; 

 thorax brown tinged with, grey, the patagia with some black 

 scales ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing grey 

 suffused in parts with purplish brown and greenish white scales ; 

 subbasal line very indistinct, double, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, 

 a rufous patch beyond it on costa with slight black streak below 

 costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, sinuous ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, with slight white annuli defined by black, the 

 former defined on outer side only, round, the latter with some 

 rufous and a slight tuft of black scales in centre ; medial line 

 black, sinuous, incurved at the veins ; postmedial line blackish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then waved and with series of purplish 

 fuscous spots beyond it in the interspaces, incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 ; subterminal line grey, slightlj- defined on inner 

 side by brown and on outer by fuscous, with two slight black 

 streaks before it below costa and crossed by a short streak in 

 submedian fold, waved ; a series of rather lunulate black spots just 

 before termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; cilia whitish 

 with a fuscous line through them ; the underside with slight 

 discoidal lunule and medial and postmedial strise from costa. 



Ab. 1. Patagia with white patch ; fore wing with white patch at 

 base, a broad inverted V-shaped patch on antemedial area from costa 

 to vein 1. 



Hah. PirsjAB, Dalhousie, 1 $ ; Sikhim {Atkinson, Sadler), 3 (S 

 type, Singapore (Ridley), 1 J ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 $ . 

 £Jxp. 50-52 millim. 



63^4. Stictoptera melanistis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 6.) 



(^ . Head and thorax black-brown ; tegulse rufous edged with 

 black-brown above ; pectus fuscous and grey ; fore and mid tibiae 

 rufous, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen black-broAvn, 

 the ventral surface with grey mixed. Fore wing black-browu 

 glossed with grey, the basal area with large elliptical rufous patch 

 extending in submedian interspace to the medial line ; traces of a 

 double waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, usually with a black mark beyond it 

 representing the claviform ; orbicular slightly defined by black on 

 outer side only, the reniform defined by black and with tuft of 

 black scales in centre ; medial line black, sinuous ; postmedial line 

 double, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, minutely dentate, defined 

 on inner side by rufous suffusion ; a terminal series of black 

 lunules and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and terminal area broadly black-brown ; cilia with fine 



