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solidaria Guenee, and now that the has been met with it seems safe to treat 

 it as a race. Both are flushed with reddish on the under side, but in typical 

 S. solidaria this suffusion is widely spread and becomes very strong at the 

 costa of the fore wing, while in the race baptata, especially in the it is slighter, 

 chiefly developed in and distally to the cell of the fore wing. On the hind 

 wing the clear white, slightly raised cell-mark extends for the length of DC 2 - 3 ; 

 in typical S. solidaria it is reduced and more punctiform. 



S. s. solidaria is known to me as occurring in Ceylon, Assam, Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, W. China, Borneo, Celebes, Java to Lombok, Timor, Wetter I., 

 Buru, Kei Is., New Guinea, Queensland, the D'Entrecasteaux Is., Woodlark I., 

 the Louisiades and Bismarck Archipelagos and Guadalcanar I. It was long 

 known as S. validaria Walker, Walker's older name quadraequata having been 

 overlooked, and Guenee's S. solidaria entirely misidentified. Oberthiir's figure 

 of Guenee's type (Et. Lep. Comp., xii, fig. 3215) leaves no doubt about the 

 determination, notwithstanding the poor condition of the specimen and its 

 entirely erroneous generic location as a " Nemoria." 



Anisodes Guenee. 



Spec. Gen. Lep., ix, 415, 1858. — Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind., Moths, iii, 446, 1895. 



Except in the Holarctic Kegion, where it is replaced by the closely allied 

 Cosymbia Hubner, a few islands such as Hawaii and New Zealand, and the 

 southern part of South America, this genus is universally distributed, though 

 less prevalent in Africa than in the Indo- Australian and Neotropical Regions. 

 It is extraordinarily interesting on account of the very great diversity of $ 

 secondary sexual characters, on which have been based numerous " genera," 

 better treated for the present as subgenera, though some remarkable divergences 

 in the genitalia suggest that there may be some heterogeneous elements which 

 it will ultimately be necessary to exclude. The are on the whole very stable 

 in structure, and the principal venational variations — presence or absence of 

 areole and approximation or wide separation of M 1 of the hind wing — do not 

 appear to be of generic value. Two species have already been recorded from the 

 Samoan Islands and a third is represented ia the present collection, though 

 unfortunately only by a single A very probable addition is A. (BracJiycola) 

 decohrata Warren (Nov. Zool, iv, 215, 1897), described from a specimen from 

 Lifu, Loyalty Islands, though a closely similar form is known to occur in Tahiti. 



