SIMPLIOIA. By W. Warren. 415 



the vertex and thorax, and fringed with hah-. Type C. gladiata Btlr. This genus corresponds to the genusa 

 JIastigophoms of the New World. 



C. gladiata Btlr. (71k). Forewing pale olive fuscous ; stigmata white ; orbicular a white dot ; reniform kidney- gladiata. 

 shaped ; inner line fine, dark, oblique outwards and waved; outer line outcurved below costa, then straight, 

 edged outwardly with whitish; subterminal line hardly visible, waved; hindwing rather paler, with outer and 

 subterminal lines. The type was from Yokohama, Japan; also from Kiushiu, and from Ichang and Omeishan, 

 Central and Western China. 



C. ochreistigma Leech (Hi). Forewi.ig brown; inner and outer lines ochreous edged with dark brown ;ochreistigma. 

 the inner wavy and oblique, the outer obtusely angled beyond cell; subterminal line ochreous, interrupted; 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata ochreous; hindwing somewhat paler than forewing; outer line ochreous 

 edged with dark brown; subterminal line interrupted. Allied to gladiata Btlr., distinguished by the larger, 

 ochreous. reniform stigma. Recorded from Central China, Ichang, Kiukiang, Changyang. 



C. modesta Leech (71 k). Differs from ochreistigma Leech in the reniform stigma being blackish with the modesta. 

 outline only pale; the inner line is more oblique, not wavy, terminating on the inner margin nearer the 

 outer line. Described from a single <J from Moupin, Western China. 



C. butleri Leech (Tig). Forewing purplish brown ; inner and outer lines darker, the inner externally pale- butleri. 

 edged and indented about middle, the outer slightly curved towards inner margin and inwardly edged with 

 paler; subterminal line dark brown, sinuous, paler-edged; reniform stigma dark brown with paler outline; 

 hindwing brown, with lunular cellspot; outer and subterminal lines as in forewing. 2 $$ from Chia-kou-ho 

 and Wa-shan, Western China. 



C. nigristigmata Leech (74f). Forewing fuscous brown, dusted with darker, with smoky transverse shades ; nigrisligma- 

 inner and outer lines black edged with whitish, the inner wavy, the outer excurved above; subterminal line ta - 

 whitish, waved, inwardly bordered with fuliginous; orbicular and reniform stigmata velvety black, outlined 

 with whitish ; hindwing with waved black median line outwardly pale-edged, and an interrupted whitish sub- 

 terminal line. 1 2 from Oniei-shan, Western China. 



C. signata Btlr. (74f). Forewing smooth cloudy grey, with darker grey suffusion ; inner line curved, pale, signata. 

 marked with black externally at costa and inner margin, often obsolete; outer line slightly curved outwards, 

 pale, dark-marked internally at extremities ; subterminal whitish, preceded by dusky shading which is blackish 

 at costa; orbicular stigma a black point; reniform an angled black mark; dark lunules before fringe which is 

 unicolorousgrey; hindwing grey, with dark cell spot, dark pale-edged outer line, and faint subterminal. Describ- 

 ed by BrTLER from Yokohama, Japan and recorded by Leech from Gensan, Corea and Central China. 



C. brevivittalis Moore. Jorewing smoky black; a norrow white inner band and a similar oblique hrevivittcdia, 

 outer band, with a white streak from it to termen below apex, crossius the sinuous subterminal line, 

 which is white ab costa; orbicular and uniform skigmata large and black, outlined with white; hindwing 

 with narrow white mediau band, obsolete towares costa anp n'distuict waocd outer line; a terminal series 

 of black white ou both wi ps. A North Indiau species, of which a single 2 example hus been taken ah 

 Gifu, Papau. 



97. Genus : Sini plicia Guen. 



Tongue present; frons with short tuft of hair; palpi sickle-shaped, smoothly scaled, the third segment 

 long and acute ; antennae filiform, in $ moderately ciliated, with a pair of bristles from each segment; 

 foretibia of o bearing a sheath concealing within it a mass of flocculent scales; forewing with no areole, 

 veins 8,^9, 10 stalked; in hindwing vein 5 rising close to 4. Type S. rectalis Ev. 



S. rectalis Ev. (72 b). Forewing luteous grey; inner and outer lines darker, but not prominent, curv- rectalis. 

 ed nearly parallel to each other; the subterminal yellowish white, straight; a dark cell spot; hind wings 

 paler, with a whitish subterminal line starting from anal angle, bent on vein 4, and fading out before 



