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radial. d hindtarsus about % the length of the tibia. Very widely distributed in China, excepting the North, 
known also from Corea, Formosa and Tonkin. Type from Szechuan. 
S. francki Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 5e). Hindtarsus somewhat shorter, cell-dots larger, borders less francki. 
strongly darkened, the subterminal not expanding quite so strongly at the radials, terminal line broken into 
dots or very short dashes. W. China: Kwanhsien. 
S. limbata Wileman. Very near francki , cell-dots hardly larger than in propinquari «, borders as weak limbata. 
as in francki, subterminal line less broadened, etc. Formosa. 
S. sybillaria Swinh. (20 k). Perhaps not always distinguishable from limbata, which may be a race of sybillaria. 
it. On the whole smaller and less contrastingly marked, cell-dots less large, postmedian with the angulations 
less deep. Central and W. China, the type from Ichang. 
S. praesignipuncta Prout. Altogether more sharply marked than sybillaria ; cell-dots relatively extremely praesigni- 
large; that of the forewing round, that of the hindwing slightly elongate along the discocellulars; antemedian 
of forewing we 11 developed, rather regularly curved, the proximal area strongly irrorated; postmedian much 
less irregular than in limbata-, distal area rather strongly darkened, the pale subterminal thickening almost as 
in propinquaria, Riu-Kiu Islands, only the type $ known. 
S. ophthalmica Prout (20 k). Perhaps a subspecies of the following, but the d antennal joints appear ophthalmiai. 
to project slightly less and the hindtarsus may be a trifle longer (slender, fully % tibia); ciliation somewhat 
above diameter of shaft. The cloudings and irroration of the forewing give a suggestion of the fibulata group; 
median line rather less thick and more distally placed, postmedian with the tooth at 1st radial rather longer; 
terminal line broken into dots. Hindwing much less dusted than in fibulata. Celebes: Bonthain (type) and 
Paloe. 
S. ocellata Warr. (20 k). Named from the greyish ring which encircles the black cell-dot of the forewing; ocellata. 
distal area, with subterminal, much as in the more brownish- or yellowish-white praesignipioncta. Ciliation of 
antenna in d rather long, hindtibia not greatly shortened. Sambawa (type) and E. Java. 
S. alboverticata Warr., founded on a dark $ from Oinanisa, Dutch Timor, may be an extremely heavily alboverii- 
irrorated form of ocellata-, lines weak, cell-dot without ring (but this may be obliterated by the irroration), sub¬ 
terminal line bordered proximally with blackish. A still more melanic $ from E. Java is probably an ocellata. 
S. nigrocellata Warr. (20 k). Termen of forewing somewhat less oblique than usual. Recognizable at nigrocellata. 
once by the enlarged and ocellated black cell-marks. Dammer Island, only 1 d and 1 $ known. Hindtibia of 
the d with the hair-pencil thick; tarsus 2 / 5 or scarcely. 
S. fluid aria Swinh. (20 k). More browmish than sybillaria, the terminal area not (or in the $ weakly) fluidaria. 
darkened, the subterminal line therefore inconspicuous. Cell-dots generally, especially in the $$, with some 
greyish suffusion around them, occasionally with indefinite ring suggesting that of ocellata. Hindtarsus of the 
d short, much less than % tibia. India, in the lowlands; also Ceylon. Described from Poona. — $-ab. loc. 
subfasciata nov. Both wings with much strengthened and generally a little broadened grey shade between the subfasciata. 
postmedian and the subterminal, the latter conspicuous, at the folds enlarged. On the underside, where typical 
fluidaria shows no bandlike clouding, the distinction is still more striking. Ceylon: Maskeliya, including the 
type; Haputale, etc. 
amphiphrac- 
ta. 
S. amphiphracta sp. n. (20 k) should probably be placed about here, although the somewhat more irre¬ 
gularly crenulate margin of the hindwing recalls the ornata Scop, group of the Palaearctic Region. The d has 
the ciliation rather long, tarsus % tibia. Irroration quite sparse, but the broad grey (blue-grey rather than 
brown-grey) median and subterminal shades on the creamy ground-colour give a characteristic tone to the 
wings. Otherwise similar to fluidata ab. subfasciata, though very much larger; cell-dot very small and weak; 
postmedian of hindwing dentate but unusually direct. Underside very heavily marked, particularly the sub¬ 
terminal bands. Paloe, W. Celebes (J. P. A. Kalis), 900—3700 feet, a short series of ddi type from Gunong 
Rangkoenau. 
S. bispurcata Warr. (20 k). d with antennal ciliation rather long, hindtarsus scarcely over 1 ■> tibia, bispurcata. 
Easily distinguished by the form of the dark postmedian spots on the forewing and their smaller accompanying 
spots close to the termen. Khasi and Kachin Hills and (one only, perhaps a rather more dark-marked race) from 
Ceylon. 
S. monosema Prout (20 1). Ciliation scarcely so long as in pulchellata, hindtarsus a little longer; lines monosema. 
less sinuous, subapieal mark similar, the blotches of the outer area replaced by an almost uniform, rather in¬ 
distinct, grey shade. Kashmir. 1 d- 
