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SCRIPTANIA; STRIGANIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
syzygia. 
nordenskjol- 
di. 
michaelseni. 
optima. 
demerodes. 
lithophilus. 
scripta. 
call igrapta. 
jucunda. 
44. Genus: Scrii>tania Hmps. 
Characterized by long ciliated eyes, the thorax covered with hair and scales and with loose tufts in 
front and behind, and a tuft on the first abdominal ring; all the rest as in the allied genera. Only few 
species, mostly from the southern part of America, are known. 
S. syzygia Hmps. (23 k). The ground-colour of the forewing is white with a very slight purple hue, 
particularly in the basal, discal and marginal areas densely dusted and strewn with dark brown, with a 
black basal ray, double transverse stripes filled up with white, and whitish maculae pupilled brown and sur¬ 
rounded with black, toiicliing each other on the median; before the undulate line there are small black 
sagittae. Hindwing reddish-brown. Patagonia. 
S. nordenskjoldi Stgr. has greyish-white forewings dusted and strewn with blackish-brown, particularly 
much in and round the cell-end and in the marginal area except the apex with single transverse lines being 
on the averted sides bordered with white; the large coniform macula is blackish-brown, surrounded with 
black, the two upper maculae are grey, in whitish rings and surrounded with black, the reniform macula is 
on the median proximally produced; the veins behind the cell except the middle radial branch are striped 
white and traverse the black and white spotted undulate line. Hindwing blackish-brown with whitish fringes. 
Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Patagonian Andes. 
S. michaelseni Stgr. (23 1) is similar, the ground-colour more purple greyish-brown, all the veins 
striped white, the reniform macula below not produced, before the whitish posterior transverse line there are 
small black sagittae, similar ones near the proximal margin before and behind the antemedian; the white 
undulate line terminates into the apex and it is below the centre pointedly dentate as far as the margin. 
Hindwing brownish-grey with white fringes. Described from Fireland. 
S. optima Dyar. Dusted light brown on a silvery white ground, the brown perhaps a fresh olive- 
green; the cell is narrow silvery white, the maculae are pupilled brown, the reniform macula proximally 
surrounded with black, distally faded, between it and the ring-macula on the median a black streak; sub¬ 
tler minally a white band, fadedly dentate and partly bordered with black, extending oblique to the apex, 
and with a white tooth to the margin above the lower radial branch; the undulate line itself is white, narrow, 
above inclining to black. Hindwing of a pure white. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. From Mexico (City) in June. 
S. demerodes Dyar. Forewing greyish-white, extensively strewn with blackish-grey; the maculae, 
a narrow subcostal stripe, a broad stripe on the median, a narrow one on the proximal-marginal vein, and 
the margin are white; between the maculae below the cell-end and between the sub median fold and the 
lower median branch a black line. The whitish hindwing is particularly at the margin dusted with grey, 
with a small, faint central dot. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Mexico (City) in June. — The two latter species 
may be doubtfully placed here. 
45. Genus: Strigaitia Hmps. 
Entirely like the preceding genus, but the thorax and abdomen tuftless. All the species are American. 
S. lithophilus Btlr. (23 1) with serrate antennae has ochreous-yellowish forewings and obliquely to the 
apex the discal part blackish-brown except the costal margin which is only strewn with dark; the median is 
light ochreous-yellowish, the veins of the marginal area are black, on both sides bordered with ochreous, a 
basal ray and an inner-marginal stripe near the base are black; the confluent maculae are in whitish rings; 
instead of the undulate line black, light-pupilled small sagittae. Hindwing whitish, veins and margin smoked. 
Chile. 
S. scripta Mssn. (23 1) as well as the following species exhibit only ciliated antennae. Forewing light 
ochreous, dusted with brown except the veins; the black transverse lines are on the averted sides bordered 
with white, the posterior line connected with the apex; between the whitish, brown-pupilled maculae there 
is a V-shaped black spot, and a reverse similar spot before the ring-macula; the undulate line consists of 
black wedges on which there are small white crescents, behind them a whitish marginal band. Hindwing 
yellowish white, on the veins and margin brownish. Bolivia. 
S. calligrapta Btlr. (24 a) is larger than scripta and without the white terminal band, the transverse 
lines are double, dark brown, filled up with ochreous yellowish, the large red-brown coniform macula surrounded 
with a darker colour exhibits an ochreous-yellowish hook-shaped spot behind it, the ground between the 
upper maculae without the black V-spot; the undulate line is ochreous with black sagittae before it, traversed 
by the light-edged, dark upper median and lower radial branches. Hindwing light brownish, at the margin 
darker. Chile. 
S. jucunda Mssn. (23k), described as Acronycta, owing to its structure belongs hereto; forewing on 
its white ground densely strewn with olive-green, and in some places, particularly the postmedian area, dusted 
