﻿1292 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 1. SPEIREDONIA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi longi, erecti ; 

 articulus 2us sat gracilis, subtiis subpilosus; 3us linearis, gracilis, 

 apice obtusus, 2o brevior. Antennae simplices, corporis dimidio 

 longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, 

 pilosi; tibise posticas calcaribus longis. Alse mediocres; anticae 

 apice angulatse, margine exteriore subconvexo subdenticulato sat 

 obliquo. 



Speiredonia, H'uhn. Verz. SchmetL 272. 

 Spiredonia, Guen. Noct. iii. 170. 



Body rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi long, 

 vertical; second joint rather slender, slightly pilose beneath ; third 

 linear, slender, obtuse at the tip, shorter than the second. Antennae 

 simple, rather more than half the length of the body. Abdomen 

 extending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae 

 with long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fare wings somewhat 

 rounded along the costa towards the angular tips, slightly convex 

 and denticulated, and rather oblique along the exterior border, 



1. Speiredonia Feducia. 



Ferrugineo-fusca, subtus vix pallidior ; ales lineis transversis nigro- 

 fuscis undulatis et angulosis apud costam dilatatis, fascia sub- 

 marginali diffusa indistiricta^ lunulis submarginalibus bene 

 determinatiSj litura subtus apud angulum interiorem albida ; 

 anticce orbiculari et reniformi subobsoletis. 



Phalaena-Noctua Feducia, Stall, Cram, Pap. Exot. v. 160, pi. 36^ 



f. 3. 

 Speiredonia Feducia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 272, 2685. Geyer, 



Zeit. Samml. Exot. Schmett. 38, 389, f 777, 77S. 

 Spiredonia Feducia, Guen. Noct. iii. 171, 1760. 



Java. 



Var.P Brown, not paler beneath. Hind borders of the abdo- 

 minal segments cinereous. Wings with several darker undulating 

 bands which have paler borders; submarginal lunules and marginal 

 undulating line dark brown; under side with whitish marginal 

 points. Fore wings with the orbicular mark forming a little dark 

 brown ringlet; ocellus elongated, indented, incomplete, irregularly 



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