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STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
rufula. 
scintillans. 
rniltyphrica. 
scaur a. 
eretmopus. 
perdulcis. 
methaema- 
ria. 
lamprotis. 
lacteipennis. 
gemmaria. 
sarcosona. 
S. rufula Warr. (23 e). This name, erected in 1899, will perhaps sink to uniformis (1896), but until 
the status of this latter is placed on a surer foundation. I prefer to conserve the safer name. Perhaps on the 
whole more cinnamon than the preceding forms, and with the irroration and the lines rufescent; lines fairly 
well developed. Underside ochreous-fleshy, without markings. The A, which is rarer in collections than the $, 
has the antennal ciliation less short than in the larger carnearia (about 1); hindwing not ventricose. Solomons 
(the type from Tulagi). New Guinea and its islands, the Kei Islands, Fiji and perhaps Buru. The $$ which 
I have recorded from Samoa and the New Hebrides now seem to me more likely to be ^-forms of rhipistis (section 
Pythodora). 
S. scintillans ITarr. (23 e). Expanse 15 mm. Antenna “sharply but minutely serrate”; hindleg ex¬ 
tremely short, the tibia thickened. Ockreous, with a rufous tinge, costal edge reddened; the lines differentiated 
by the absence of the rufous irroration, the postmedian arising from a pale spot; terminal line darker. Named 
from the glistening upperside. Queensland: Coomooboolaroo. Dawson district, 1 A, September 1890. A second 
A is only labelled “Queensland”. Related forms perhaps occur in Dutch New Guinea and Vulcan Island. 
S. miltophrica Turn. (23 e). The copious sprinkling of metallic silvery scales on the grey ground and 
the thick, sinuous orange-cinnamon lines render this an unmistakle species although the $ is still unknown. 
Port Darwin. 
S. scaura Turn, is unknown to me, but is said to be “near eretmopus but greyer, the hindtibia similar, 
but the tarsus much smaller and not dilated into paddle-shaped organs'”. Expanse 18 mm. Cilia of d antenna 
114 . Forewing rather narrow, the lines faintly darker, dentate, minutely dark-dotted, pale-edged distally; 
hindwing with termen rounded. Herberton. North Queensland. 
S. eretmopus Turn. (23 e). Expanse 15--18 mm. More whitish than . scaura , d ciliation shorter; closely 
similar to philocosma but readily distinguished by the remarkable hindleg of the d — tibia short and stout, 
with a large dense tuft of very long hairs springing from inner side of base, tarsus broadly flattened and paddle¬ 
shaped. I have only seen the $. Queensland, in several localities. 
S. perdulcis Turn. 20 mm. Forewing costa straight to near apex, termen slightly curved, moderately 
oblique; grey-whitish, a fine, wavy, outwardly oblique fuscous-brown line from % hindmargin reaching half 
across disc; a fuscous-browm subterminal line, broadly suffused in disc, three times sinuate, with angular slight 
projections distally; a moderately broad terminal grey suffusion." Hindwing rounded, terminal suffusion broad, 
the band median, with two angular projections. Dalby, Queensland, only the type km own. I have not seen 
it; the pattern seems to have much in common with Dithalama cosmospila. 
S. methaemaria Hmps., founded on a rubbed $ from Sikkim, has the termen of the forew ing less curved 
and with tornus less rounded than in gemmaria, the outer band less broad and less irregular (though sinuous), 
continued to the costa, the hindwing coloured more as in lacteipennis , with only a narrow band just beyond 
the cell-dot remaining clear yellowish. A second $ comes from Hu-pe and a $ from Formosa. 
S. lamprotis Prout (23 e). unknown. The strongly glossy wings and their general scheme of coloration 
and markings recall Lipomelia or still more some South American Acratodes or Crypsityla , but the generic 
affinities can scarcely be questioned. Moderately robust, smooth-margined, areole ample, 1st subcostal and 
5th both arising close to its apex; hindwing with 2nd subcostal stalked to about U its length. Htawgaw, Kachin 
Hills, 1 $. 
S. lacteipennis Bull. (23 e). Antennal ciliation of the A not long; hindtibia short, slightly sw-ollen and 
tufted; tarsus quite short (*4 or less). Forewing somewiiat elongate, very pale buff, with a small cell-dot and 
an incomplete, sinuous dark red-brown postmedian, accompanied distally by a diffuse band-like shade. Hind¬ 
wing with a similar but more complete postmedian, which leaves free little of the ground-colour except centrally. 
Dharmsala (type) and Simla. 
S. gemmaria Hmps. (23 f). Another pretty Sterrha. , only known to me in a small series from Ceylon 
(including the type) and 1 A from Madras. The areole is very small, though apparently always present (all the 
subcostals stalked beyond it), and recent inverstigations have convinced me that it should have been placed 
close to egenaria , perhaps hardly more than a race. Half-band of forewing rather broad, more proximally placed 
than in that, violet-mixed centrally, somewhat dark-mixed distally, with a sharp projection between the medians. 
Band of hindwing broad, its anterior half darkened distally. 
S. sarcozona sp. n. Expanse 16 mm. Forewing somewhat less elongate than in gemmaria, areole larger; 
ground-colour about as in that of lacteipennis. markings more fleshy-tinged; a slender sinuous antemedian line 
from cell to hindmargin; median line faint anteriorly, stronger from about the base of 1st median vein to hind- 
