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S. distincta Leech (67b). Forewing dull pale brown; subbasal, inner, and outer lines dark brown, distincta. 

 accompanied by white spots, round and lunulate; inner line nearly straight, outer excurved round cell; sub- 

 terminal obscure, waved, between a dark brown shade and a darker line; median shade brown, plain below 

 middle; orbicular stigma a white dot in a brown ring; reniform white, large and round, surrounded by four 

 whitish dots, with a short white dash between the inner two; a row of blackish white-tipped spots before 

 termen: hindwing with a dentate, angled median line, edged outwardly by whitish, forming a white spot above 

 anal augle; a double dark subterminal band and a row of black and white dots. Recorded only from Kiu- 

 kianff. China The ?. of which I have seen only one worn example, is smaller, paler, with obscure markings 

 and pointed forewing. 



S. astrigera Btlr. (67b). Forewing grey brown, the shadings darker brown, and the lines blackish; astrigera. 

 inner and outer lunulate dentate, vertical, both deeply indented in cell; the inner inwardly grey-edged with 

 blue grey scales on each side at inner margin; the outer excurved round cell; orbicular stigma a white dot; 

 renirorm with round while centre edged with black, often with a pale lunule before it, and with whiLe dots 

 round if. a dark shade before the subterminal line, which is followed by a paler space beyond the cell fold; 

 the terminal spots black and white: hindwing fuscous grey, with a dark waved outer line and a dark sub- 

 terminal band ending at a pale patch above anal angle. Japan and Kiushiu. 



S. albistigma Leech. Differs from astrigera Btlr., to which it is most nearly allied, by its browner albistigma. 

 coloration, the bluish white reniform stigma, more angulated subterminal line, and much paler terminal area- 

 on the underside the postmedian band of hindwing is oblique, not angled; the basal 3 /4 of both wings blackish, 

 and the terminal area light brown. West China. 



S. cyanivitta Moore (67 b, c). Forewing pale grey brown, thickly powdered with dark, the basal and cyanivitta. 

 median areas deeper brown; inner and outer lines dark brown, conversely edged with ochreous, the inner 

 inbent at costa, the outer nearly straight or inbent at inner margin, and irregularly excurved and dentate 

 round cell; subterminal line sinuous and irregularly dentate, marked with black below costa and above inner 

 margin; an indistinct series of dark dots just before termen; reniform stigma narrow, elongate, pale edged, 

 sometimes obsolete; hindwing uniform fuscous brown, with traces of median and subterminal dark lines on 

 inner margin; — in the ab. brunnea Moore (67c) the whole forewing is darker brown with a purplish tinge; brunnea. 

 the basal area tinged with bluish; the lines and reniform stigma finely edged with blue and the subterminal 

 spots connected by a fine dentate bluish line; it is this form of the N. Indian insect that Leech records from 

 West China; a paler form occurs in India — ab. sabulosa ah.nov. (67 c) — having the forewing sandy brown, sabulosa. 

 with the basal and median areas peppered with dark brown. 



S. curvilinea Moore (67c). Forewing dark red brown; the postmedian area fulvous tinged, as in the curvilinea. 

 ab. rubrifascia Moore; the apical blotch paler brown; inner and outer lines double, white, slightly waved; the 

 inner curved, the outer straight, in line with the white edged yellow centred reniform; a white speck marks 

 the orbicular stigma; some white scales on the terminal black dots; hindwing fuscous brown with traces of 

 dark median and double subterminal lines, clearer and marked with white on inner margin; fringe fulvous in 

 the apical half of wing; the terminal lunules often slenderly marked with bluish white; this description refers 

 to ab. moorei Btlr. (= fraterna Moore): in typical curvilinea the median area is suffused with bluish moorei. 

 white except a large blotch on costa and inner margin; in ab. rubrifascia Moore (67 d) the whole median area rubrifascia. 

 is dark fuscous. A single specimen from Ta-tsien-lu, W. China, is referred by Leech to this N.W. Indian species. 



S. simplex Leech (67 d). Forewing olive brown, more uniform than in rectilinea Moore and without simplex. 

 the fulvous shade of the basal and postmedian areas in that insect; inner and outer lines white and double; 

 orbicular stigma a white dot; reniform a flattened oblong with yellow centre, lying between the arms of 

 outer line; subterminal line indented on both folds, marked with blackish spots below costa ; in its ab. lilacina uiacina. 

 Leech (67 d) the median area is washed with pale lilac grey. Occurs throughout West and Central China. 



S. prunosa Moore. (67 f). Forewing deep purple brown; inner and outer lines pale and double, approxi- prunosa. 

 mated to each other, fairly straight; the space between them, except at costa, filled in with pale, so that a 

 pale fascia is formed across wing, narrowing downwards; this fascia sometimes remains ochreous grey or is 

 varied with lilac grey, or bluish, or ferruginous ; orbicular stigma a large round pale dot, lying on the outer 

 arm of inner line; the reniform stigma has its outer half protruding beyond outer line, the shading on each 

 side of median fascia deeper; subterminal line indented at each fold and marked with black below costa; hind- 

 wing deep fuscous brown with three dark pale edged outer lines; the apical fringes yellow. A Sikkim species, 

 found also at Wa-shan, Omei-shan, Chia-kou-ho in W T estern China. 



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