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9. Anisodes (Perixera) obliviaria Walker. 



Anisodes obliviaria Walker, List Lep. Ins., xxii, 643, 1861 (Ceylon). 



Anisodes suspicaria Snellen, Tijd. Ent., xxiv, 80, t. viii, f. 6-6 c, 1881 (Celebes). 



" Anisodes obrinaria Guenee," Moore, Lep. Ccyl., iii, 446, t. cic, f. 4 a, 1887 (ex err.). 



Perixera rufidorsata Warren, Nov. Zool., iii, 312, 1896 ; viii, 24, 1901 (N. India) (ab.). 



Perixera rvfannularia Warren, Nov. Zool., iv, 221, 1897 (Upolu : Apia). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 i.1924, 1 $, x.1923 (Steffany). 



I cannot yet see that this very widely distributed species even forms 

 definable races. The extreme ab. rufidorsata (with enlarged, broadly dark- 

 ringed cell-spot on the hind wing) is only known to me as occurring in N. India 

 (not infrequently), Java and New Guinea, but nowhere constant ; intermediates 

 are pretty general. I have seen specimens of A. obliviaria from Ceylon, India, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Java, Timor, Babar, the Obi Is., Amboina, New Guinea, 

 the Trobriand Is., Woodlark I., the Louisiade Archipelago, Queensland, the 

 Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Is. and Samoa. Tring Museum has 1 $ 

 from Apia as well as the type P. rufannularia. 



10. Anisodes hypocris, sp. n. 



33 mm. Head and body concolorous with wings ; the face, upper edge 

 of palpus and part of the fore leg (especially of the coxa) redder. Palpus long 

 (about 2-!), the third segment longer than the second. 



Fore wing with termen crenulate ; areole wanting, R 2 arising before middle 

 of DC, DC 3 incurved anteriorly ; light cinnamon, weakly irrorated with greyish, 

 leaving a clearer postmedian band about 2 mm. in width ; markings rather 

 blurred, greyish : cell-spot ocellate, though rather small ; antemedian line 

 very obscure, apparently thick or double ; median rather thick, considerably 

 beyond cell-spot, outbent about R 3 -M l , slightly incurved before and behind; 

 postmedian 2-3 mm. from termen, accentuated by minute darker vein-dots, 

 incurved between the radials and again posteriorly ; sub terminal indistinct, 

 between vague, somewhat macular dark shades ; terminal dots not strong. 

 Hind iving with termen strongly and irregularly crenulate, the longest tooth 

 at R 3 , that at R 1 also rather pronounced ; cell-spot large, white ; median shade 

 rather close beyond it ; distal markings nearly as on fore wing. 



Under side considerably paler ; cell-marks indicated, on hind wing white, 

 though less sharply than above ; postmedian dots also indicated, the other 

 markings faint or obsolete. 



