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brown striae just before termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, 

 terminal area, and inner margin black-brown ; cilia with white line 

 at base and white tips ; the underside with the costal area greyish 

 with a dark bar at middle. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous 

 white, the last with the black subbasal spot placed on an ochreous 

 white patch. 



Hah. Singapore {Ridley), 3 S, 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak 

 (IFftZ/rtce), type fin Mus. Oxon. ; Nias. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



6403. Stictoptera confluens. (Plate CLXXVIIT. fig. 15.) 

 Minica covfluens, Wlk. xiii. 1140 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 401. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tegulse 

 fuscous black ; palpi white in front ; pectus and legs white tinged 

 with red-brown ; abdomen greyish, the ventral surface white. 

 Pore wing red-brown mixed with white, the basal half mostly 

 overlaid with thick fuscous-black scales ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight curved black striga from costa ; antemedial line hardly 

 traceable, double, waved ; the claviform represented by a minute 

 black streak, the orbicular by a black striga on its outer edge ; 

 reniform defined by black and with some black scales in centre, its 

 inner edge straight ; medial line black, oblique to submedian fohl, 

 then erect; j)ostmedial line black defined on inner side by whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 with a series of fuscous black spots on its outer edge below vein 7 

 and from vein 5 to inner margin, the costa beyond it with white 

 points with minute black streaks between them ; subterminal 

 line white, waved, with black streak before and beyond it below 

 costa, then slightly defined on outer side by blackish ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; a fine white line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the lower part of cell and the 

 interspaces below and just beyond it hyaline; cilia wdiite with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside with faint dark striga 

 from middle of costa. 



Ab. 1. Metathorax, patagia, and fore wing greenish grey, the 

 last with some purple-brown sufi'usion on basal half of costa and 

 before the medial line but not overlaid with fuscous black scales. 



Hab. S. NiGEKiA, Lagos {Strachan), 1 § ; has. ign., 1 $ tjpe. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



6404. Stictoptera columba. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 16.) 



Dandaca columha, Wlk. ix. 149 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 401. 

 Stictoptera cuciiUioides, Semper, Keisen Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 536, pi. 60. 

 f. 11 (nee Guen.). 



S . Head and tegulte rufous, the latter with black patches at 

 base with chocolate-brown patches defined by ochreous above them ; 

 palpi white in front ; thorax blue-green mixed with red-brow u ; 



