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black cell-dots and terminal dots — much less distinct; median shade and on the hindwing the postmedian 
somewhat avellaneous or wood-brown. Forewing beneath suffused almost throughout. Korintji (W. Sumatra), 
1 cJ. 
S. perfilata Prout (21 k). Distinguishable at a glance from consimilata by the shape, which somewhat 
recalls the African sublobata (Vol. 16, pi. 7 g). $ ciliation nearly twice diameter of shaft, hindtarsus somewhat 
over % tibia. Java, locally common. 
S. desita Walk. (21 k). Termen of the forewing more oblique, especially in the Greyish, the lines 
on the forewing slender, rarely w r ell defined, yet very characteristic, especially the postmedian, which is very 
oblique, strongly zigzag and more or less connected, between its very acute tooth at the 1st radial and the 
terminal dot of cellule 7, by an oblique (often interrupted) dark line; black dots or dashes generally develop 
here and there on the lines. Java and through the Lesser Sunda Islands to Queensland and New South Wales, 
the type from Moreton Bay. Specimens from the Kei and Tenimber Islands look slightly less narrow winged, 
more brownish and more weakly marked, but I have not seen fresh specimens. — luzonica Prout. On an average 
markedly smaller (16—22 mm), both wings slightly less elongate costally; slightly more brownish; forewing 
with apical dash obsolete, costal dot of postmedian generally better developed. Luzon. Possibly a separate 
species. 
S. idnothogramma sp. n. (21 k). Considerably less brown-tinged than desita; impure white, with rather 
sjiarse black irroration. Face and upperside of palpus black; vertex white; collar light brown. Antenna of $ 
with ciliation folly as long as diameter of the rather broad shaft; hindtarsus well under *4 tibia. Lines sharper 
than in desita. Forewing with antemedian very acutely angled, its angle very near the cell-dot, its anterior 
arm with a black subcostal dot or tooth; median far beyond cell-dot, sinuous, sharply angled about 1st radial, 
its anterior part weak; postmedian partly blackened, with an acute angle inward in front of 3rd radial, anteriorly 
zigzag; subterminal shades brownish; terminal dots strong, subtriangular, a fuscous spot adjoining the 2nd 
dot proximally. Hindwing with the markings much more regular. Paloe, W. Celebes: Biromaroe, sea level and 
G. Rangkoenau, 900—1800 feet (J. P. G. Kalis), abundant, $$ much scarcer. 
S. nigristellata Warr. (21 k). Slightly paler grey, wings less elongate than in desita much simpler 
in pattern: cell-dots sharply black; postmedian line, and on forewing an antemedian, formed of black vein-dots, 
the postmedian of the forewing near the termen. with the dot on the 2nd radial strongly displaced proximally, 
closely approach ing the very oblique median shade. Antennal ciliation of the J long, hindtarsus short, probably 
about y 3 tibia (broken in the type). Batjan. Single specimens from Ron Island and Humboldt Bay seem to 
agree. — nivimontium form. (? subsp.) nov. Cleaner whitish, the postmedian dots slightly connected by a very 
fine greyish line. Hindtarsus as given under the type form. Dutch New Guinea: Upper Setekwa River. Snow 
Mountains, including the type, in the Tring Museum; Mount Goliath, 1 
S. delospila Warr. (21 k). Certainly near .nigristellata, almost agreeing in structure, though the hind¬ 
tarsus is a little less shortened (almost tibia). Very variable in size and moderately so in colour, but generally 
considerably larger and decidedly greyer; dots connected by lines, often quite strongly; post-median rather 
less near the termen, subterminal shades developing between; median shade of forewing more sinuous, less 
oblique, of hindwing generally well developed. New Guinea, Goodenough Island and New Ireland, the type 
from Biagi. — ab. griseella Warr., also from Biagi. has the grey irroration intenstified and all the lines thickened. 
S. castissima Warr. (= exangulata Warr.) (21 k). Antenna about as in the two preceding; J hindtarsus 
a little less shortened. Face with perhaps a larger part white. Ground-colour white; markings much as in 
delospila , median on the whole a little more slender and dentate, subterminal shades as a rule relatively well 
developed. North Queensland (the type of castissima) , British New Guinea, Sudest, Dampier and the Bismarck 
Islands. 
S. griseolineata Bothsch. Closely similar to a small, rather dusky delospila. Apex of forewing less pointed, 
expanse not quite 18 mm, median shade stronger, less sinuous. Dutch New Guinea: Oetakwa River, 3000 feet, 
only the $ known. 
S. paradela Prout (21 k). Larger than delospila; antenna similar, hindtarsus considerably longer 
(over % tibia). Ground-colour slightly more creamy; black basal dot behind median vein wanting; antemedian 
line not black-dotted; median shade less incurved; fringe without definite vein-dots. Biagi, Mambare River. 
S. homaema Prout (21 k). Close to paradela, but hardly a subspecies. Hindtarsus of scarcely %. 
Wings slightly broader still; whiter, with sparse irroration; postmedian with deeper lunules between the teeth; 
terminal dots elongate; dots on fringe perceptible. Solomon Islands. 
perfilata. 
desita. 
luzonica. 
idnothogram 
ma 
nigristel¬ 
lata 
nivimon¬ 
tium 
delospila. 
griseella. 
castissima. 
griseolineata 
paradela. 
homaema. 
