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ANLSEPHYRA. By L. B. Prout. 
hyriaria. 
obliquifascia. 
diffusifascia 
sanguinaria. 
histrionaria. 
ornata. 
brunnearia. 
rufaria. 
ocularia. 
maculifascia. 
more bent or angled at 3rd radial than forewing, sometimes more or less crenulate throughout; 2nd subcostal 
connate or stalked; 1st median separate, connate or shortly stalked. Type: sanguinaria Moore. The genus 
consists of 6 species, mainly Himalayan, and its more specialized members (with areole simple) are kept apart 
from Calothysanis and Ptochophyle more by their wing-shape, pattern, etc. than by important structural 
characters. 
A. Section. Areole of forewing double. 
S. hyriaria Walk. (16 d). Orange-yellow, with the cloudings outside the postmedian slighter than in the 
similarly coloured forms, the cell-spot of forewing small, punctiform. Also distinct in structure from obliqui- 
fascia in that the 2nd subcostal of the forewing arises from the stalk of the 3rd—5th; 1st median of hind wing- 
separate or connate. N. India and Burma; also (possibly a separable race) in Yunnan. 
S. obliquifascia Prout (16 e). Forewing with 2nd subcostal arising from the cell; hindwing with 1st 
median connate or stalked. Somewhat narrower-winged than hyriaria, the lines of the forewing correspondingly 
more oblique. Fairly common in the Kbasis, rare at Darjiling. 
B. Section. Areole of forewing simple. 
S. diffusifascia Swinh. (16 e) can be so similar in aspect to obliquifascia that the two were long confused 
as a single species. The easiest distinction, apart from the venation, is that the median shade is continuous 
across both wings, whereas in obliquifascia its greater obliqueness makes it terminate more proximally. Its 
colour is on an average less warm and the postmedian of the hindwing is not definitely separate from the distal 
shade beyond it. Sikkim to Pahang and Tonkin, the type from the Ivhasis. 
S. sanguinaria Moore (16 e). Paler yellow, with a stronger vinaccous tinge in the distal blotches; these 
are ample and well separated by the ground-colour between the 3rd radial and 1st median. Common about 
Darjiling and occurring again in the Nagas, but I do not think recorded from the Khasis. 
S. histrionaria Swinh. (16 e). Variable, sometimes very similar to sanguinaria. Generally somewhat 
more warmly coloured; cell-spot of forewing smaller, that of the hindwing, on the other hand, more conspi¬ 
cuously white-pupilled, generally set on a more definite median shade; subterminal spots often more confluent, 
or at least connected by a sinuous proximal line or narrow shade, their tone oftener purple-grey than vinaceous. 
In the venation there is no constant difference, but the first median of the hindwing is oftener stalked in sanguin¬ 
aria , merely connate in histrionaria. Distribution as in hyriaria. ornata Bastelb. (= lentiginosaria Wileman) 
(15 g) is of a considerably deeper colour (nearly as in obliquifascia), the proximal part of the fore-wing much 
suffused, the cloudings of the distal area on the whole less sharp. Formosa. 
S. brunnearia Leech (Vol. 4. pi. 5 f). As was pointed out in the Supplement to Vol. 4 (p. 27), this seems 
to be best treated as a somewhat aberrant Synegiodes, with less bright colour and simpler markings. The shajje 
is not at all extreme; the areole is considerably smaller, with all the subcostals well stalked from its apex, and 
it is just possible that my earlier placing in Anisephyra was preferable; probably it may require a separate 
genus. The variable veins of the hindwing (2nd subcostal and 1st median) here both arise at about the end of 
the cell. W. China. 
13. Genus: Anisephyra Warr. 
Face in the type species sloping, protuberant below, in ocularia more normal. Palpus and tongue in 
the type species stout. Antenna of the A strongly bipectinate. Hindtibia in both sexes with all the spurs. Fore¬ 
wing with termen smooth; cell 1 2 the wing-length, thus longer than in Synegiodes-, areole simple, of moderate 
size, all the subcostals generally stalked beyond it, 1st median widely separate at its origin from 3rd radial. 
Hindwing with termen rounded (type) or very feebly bent in the middle; cell V or nearly; 2nd subcostal about 
connate or quite shortly stalked; 1st median nearly as on forewing. Founded on the little-known rufaria Warr., 
to which was added the common ocularia F . ; the latter, at least, has very much in common with the African 
Palaeaspilates (Vol. 16, p. 49). 
A. rufaria Warr. (16 e). A rather small species, narrower-winged than the following, the light-brown 
ground-colour with a more or less strong fleshy or rufous suffusion; irroration coarse, the lines of the hindwing 
macularly thickened in places. Ajmere, Rajputana, type and allotype; also known from Jubbidpore and Deesa. 
A. ocularia F. (= albannularia Walk., invexata Walk., monochromata Walk.) (16 f). Variable, but not 
liable to be mistaken for any other species which is yet known. The type form, described from India, was yel¬ 
low. with the band like postmedian shade apparently obsolete (perhaps, however, not a very fresh specimen). 
The name-typical race is distributed from Ceylon and India to Hainan and Formosa. — ab. maculifascia Pimps. 
lacks the white pupils of the cell-spots and has the punctiform ante- and postmedian lines strengthened. The 
