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lias the cell-dots strong, more or less enlarged, the antemedian line and subterminal shades very weak or obsolete, 
the postmedian slender, without any thickening or blackening at the folds. To 2 the whole of this different¬ 
iation applies, to 1 $ and 1 £ the last distinction only; more material from the locality is needed. obdiscata obdiscata. 
subsp. nov. (21 a). General tendencies as in discata, except that the dark postmedian dots remain prominent 
(though never developing ab. maculata ); ground-colour occasionally clean white, but nearly always inclining 
towards yellowish or stramineous, never (unless perhaps on New Britain and French Islands) showing a trace 
of the fleshy tinge which characterizes the preceding forms. Admiralty Islands to New Ireland and (with so 
few modifications that I have not yet been able to demonstrate any further subspecies) throughout the Solomons. 
Type $ from Feni Island, off New Ireland. - spilotis subsp. nov. (21 a). Lines and shades weak (in cl u d i n g spilotis. 
the p o s t m e d i a n), cell-dot and the dark markings of the postmedian relatively very strong, the latter 
generally manifest even on the hind wing; a black antemedian dot on hindmargin of forewing frequent. 
Dorsal spots of abdomen generally developed. — As might be expected, ab. maculata nom. coll, occurs among maculata. 
this race, which is frequent on the Tenimber Islands and provides an interesting transition between perlineata 
and the spilodorsata series. 
S. graphidata Prout (21 a). Larger than perlineata , as white as the less yellowish of the obdiscata forms, graphidata. 
but slightly roughened with minute black irroration. Antemedian line better developed, dark-dotted on the 
veins, median line angled outward on the 2nd submedian vein, postmedian more deeply sinuate, etc. Celebes. 
S, nictata Guen. ( ligataria Walk.) (21 a). Hindwing somewhat more quadrate than in the preceding nictata. 
group, the angle at 3rd radial strengthened. Tone somewhat brownish; dark markings at the postmedian nearly 
always well developed on the forewing and very commonly (though smaller) on the hindwing; median line 
generally slender, denticulate; spot in cellule 6 of forewing close to termen conspicuous: India, common (inclu¬ 
ding the type), Ceylon, Burma, Hainan. Also “Formosa”, 1 G, determined by Butler (1880) as perlineata. 
takowensis form. (? sp.) nov. Generally smaller; the spots outside the postmedian line weakened. As the takowensis. 
ground-colour is slightly deepened, the impression is of a much less variegated insect than typical nictata. 
Formosa, distributed; a long series in the Tring Museum from TakoAV (Wileman) has been made typical, 
semperi subsp. (? sj).) nov. (= misera Semp. nec Walk.) (21 a). There are at least two species of the nictata semperi. 
group on Luzon, and it is not yet certain that either is conspecific with nictata but as the present form seems 
to agree therewith in structure and is in some measure connected by takowensis I incline to refer it here. Al¬ 
ways small (length of a forewing 9 or 10 mm), at least as brown and still more weakly marked, in particular 
without any clear development of the subapical spot of cellule 6. Luzon, in several localities, the type series in 
the Tring Museum from Klondyke, Benguet; also at Taytay, N. Palawan. A single from Paloe (Celebes) at 
2700 feet may represent a further subspecies. 
S. caeria sp. n. (21a). Superficially more like n. nictata. than is semperi, except that the forewing is relatively caeria. 
a trifle narrower. Antennal joints of the more markedly dentate, hindtarsus less abbreviated (over % tibia). 
Abdomen with black dorsal spots. Wings rather whiter than in most nictata; median line on forewing scarcely 
dentate, its anterior angulation acute, on hindwing rather broad, predominantly more proximal (in relation 
to the cell-dot) than in nictata. Benguet, Luzon: Klondyke, 800 m, 15 March—7 April 1912, type $ and 2 others, 
collected together with semperi; Palali, 2000 m, 1 July 1913, 1 <$. Type in the Tring Museum; all from the 
Wileman collection. 
S. nigridentata Warr. (21 a) perhaps belongs to the following group, but is smaller; hindwing somewhat nigridentata. 
crenulate, well toothed at the 3rd radial. Hindtibia of $ moderately dilated, tarsus fully ^4 as long as tibia. 
Larger than caeria, more brownish, the dark markings at the postmedian (both wings) as strong as in nictata, 
additional ones on forewing at both folds, but not in front of 1st radial; terminal and fringe-dots strong. Khasis. 
S. proximaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. of). Somewhat similar to moorei (21 c) but much smaller, less dark- proximaria. 
dusted, the postmedian on both wings more strongly incurved between the radials, the spot near tornus of 
forewing larger, the underside more strongly marked. The fascicles of cilia of the $ antenna seem to be consider¬ 
ably less dense. Described from Ichang, known also from W. China. - indigenata Wileman. from Formosa, has indigenata. 
a browner tinge above and beneath, but otherwise I can find no constant difference; the one known $ (Kanshirei) 
has the cell-dot of the hindwing somewhat enlarged. — ab. (?) tetrasticta nov. has the black spots almost as large tetrasticta. 
as in quadrimacula and may be a third species, but is to some extent linked up with the G3 by the already 
mentioned $. Kanshirei, 2 $$ in the British Museum. 
S. voluptaria sp. n. Expanse 36 mm. Very like a rather large strongly marked walkeri (21 b). Antenna voluptaria. 
with the fascicles of cilia less long (little longer than diameter of shaft); hindtibia rather longer and not quite 
so strongly dilated; hindwing a little more strongly crenulate; abdomen with the black dorsal spot on the 4tli 
segment enlarged. The markings will perhaps prove variable, but both the known examples have the dentate 
