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ANISODES. By L. B. Prout. 
with that or any other known Anisodes. Areole wanting. Typical rujiplaga has subterminal reddish blotches, 
stabilata. the large (posterior) one reaching the 1st median. — ab. stabilata Warr. is a rather frequent form with no special 
fasdata. maculation except small paired black spots (dots) placed near the tornus. — ab. fasciata Warr. has no special 
dark markings, except sometimes the cell-spot of the hindwing, but has the space between the median and 
postmedian lines and that between subterminal and termen dark-shaded so as to form greyish bands. — ab. 
nigriversa. nigriversa Warr. has the reddish blotches of the type changed to black, but lacks the one beyond the cell. New 
Guinea and Goodenough Island, all the name-types coming from the Owen Stanley Range. 
G. HintibiaofcJ with 3 crowded spurs. 
-penumbrata. A. penumbrata Warr. Palpus in the $ with the terminal joint long. Areole present. Recognizable by 
the long wings, the very oblique lines and shades of the forewing, etc. The type from S. Celebes, measures 
acrobeles. about 36 mm. acrobeles Prout (18 a) is somewhat larger, slightly narrower-winged, the grey markings less 
(or not at all) reddish- or vinous-tinged. the vein-dots on the lines inclined to lengthen into very small dashes, 
the proximal markings of the forewing beneath more obsolete. Central Ceram: Manusela, 6000 feet. — ab. 
argyrostig- argyrostigma Prout, collected with acrobeles , has the cell-spots white, black-ringed, that of the hindwing larger. 
mu. more elongate. — 2 from Rana. Buru, belong to the subspecies acrobeles but are perhaps slightly inter - 
microtera. mediate towards the type penumbrata. - microtera subsp. nov. Considerably smaller (scarcely 33 mm), slightly 
less fleshy-tinged (more yellowish), hindwing with the cell-mark narrow, not white-pupilled, the postmedian 
slightly more sinuous than in p. penumbrata, the underside also yellowish, with little sign of rosy markings. 
Klondyke, Benguet. Luzon. 800 feet. 1 in the Wileman collection. 
variospila. A. variospila Warr. (= falsareolaria $ Oberth.. falseareolaria $ Oberth., biformis Warr.) (18 a). Very 
inadequately erected as a new name for a 3-spurred Anisodes which Warren thought was probably the mone- 
taria of Hampson's “Moths of India ", but which (as Warren rightly saw) could not be that of Guenee. 
“Yellowish ochreous, with the usual markings fairly well expressed”, the cell-spot of the hindwing either black, 
cloudy, with pale centre (the usual form) or round and white, with dark edging. No more definite locality is 
given than “India", but the specimen which serves as type came from Sikkim; Oberthur's type from the Khasis. 
Probably a brighter, more sharply marked race of the following. 
contrariaia. A. contrariata Walk. (18 b). The determination of this Anisodes is not yet absolutely assured, as the 
type is a poor $ from Sarawak, which is not yet an ascertained locality for the present species. Swinhoe 
considered it to be a “much faded" obrinaria, but it seems to agree better with the Malayan species which has 
the A leg-structure of variospila , and of which we here figure a faded $ from Kuala Trengganu; perhaps if 
this were in fresher condition, it would be indistinguishable from typical variospila, but the Sarawak original 
seemed slightly longer-winged, with the termen of the hindwing slightly more crenulate and had the cell-spot 
of that wing smaller than in any true variospila I have yet seen. 
patruelis. A. patruelis Moore (18 b). Extremely similar to the common absconditaria Walk., though the different 
leg-structure will prevent any confusion as to the AS- Forewing with the apex scarcely so acute; a slightly 
warmer tone of colour is general than in that species, but both are somewhat variable. The cell-spot of the 
hindwing shows a much wider range of variation than in absconditaria, where it is usually a white dot surrounded 
by a very small black ring; in patruelis that form does occur, but quite frequently the cell-spot is large, either 
black with a small white pupil, or white with a slender black ring round it, or whitish with two dark rings, one 
surrounding it, the other smaller, placed within the large one and in its turn enclosing a very small pale spot. 
In these large-spotted forms the cell-dot of the forewing is also slightly enlarged and encloses a more con- 
punctata. spicuous white pupil. — ab. punctata ab. nov. has a few irregularly placed dark spots on the antemedian of 
the forewing and more on the postmedian and in the subterminal region of both wings, causing it to recall, 
except in its considerably larger size, a moderately strongly marked specimen of the common South American 
Semaeopus caecaria Hbn. Type a $ from Maskeliya in mv collection, patruelis seems to be confined to Ceylon, 
where it is locally common. 
aedes. A. aedes sp. n. Close to patruelis. perhaps a subspecies of it. Hindtibia of the A, in both the known 
examples of the sex. with the proximal spur not longer than the terminal ones (in patruelis, at least sometimes, 
so definitely longer that when directed hindward it can slightly outreach the longer terminal). Wing-expanse 
on an average a trifle less, colour slightly paler, especially on the forewing beneath, cell-dot of forewing perhaps 
oftener without a white pupil; median shade generally weak, postmedian dots perhaps set on a better-developed 
line or shade than in patruelis. Selangor: Bukit Kutu (loc. typ.), 3400—3500 feet, 2 2 $$; Pahang: Camer¬ 
on's Highlands, 4800—5500 feet, 2 9$; Kedah Peak. 
subroseata. A. subroseafa Walk., a small and poor $ from Ceylon, has never been rightly determined, but I have 
an impression that it may belong to the present section and therefore deal with it here. Hampson made it 
