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the dark markings rather weak. It occurs also in E. China and Formosa; Wileman seems to have overlooked 
it as a small form of his taiwana. 
S. ptyonopoda Pimps. (23 h). Closely similar to biselata extincta Styr. (Vol. 4, p. 126), but the midtibia ptyonopoda. 
of thesis strongly fringed with more or less vinaceous hair; tuft on hindtibia enormously developed, also largely 
vinaceous-tinged. Postmedian line weak, with slight vein-dots, the cell-dots strong. N. India (type from 
Bhotan), Perak, Pahang and possibly China. 
S. niimica Warr. Unfortunately the type, a from Penungah, N. Borneo, is in wretched condition, mimica. 
Its antennal ciliation is very long, otherwise it looks very near ptyonopoda and procrossa, the costal margin 
of the forewing perhaps less leaden-tinged than in the former but less mixed with red than in the latter. A 
second <$, from Mount- Dulit, mentioned in the original description, is missing from the Tring Museum. 
S. procrossa Meyr. Meyrick, generally an excellent observer of structural characters, strangely over- procrossa. 
looked the midlegs in his type and referred this to “ Eois" {Sterrha) instead of to Xenocentris. It is smaller 
and relatively shorter-winged than typical ptyonopoda, the costal margin proximally more mixed with reddish, 
the midtibial hair perhaps less vinaceous; postmedian of forewing with a conspicuous dot at costa. Sumbawa. 
Single specimens from Java and Sumatra and perhaps even “Ceylon" (in Mus. Tring) agree essentially with 
it, though showing some small and unimportant deviations. 
S. sericeipentlis Warr. (= subrubellata Warr., subcolorata Prout ) (23 i). Warren founded his sericei- scriceipen- 
pennis on the $ (Fergusson Island), his subrubella on the J (Milne Bay) and recognized their close relationship, 
but overlooked the strongly fringed midtibia in the latter. I therefore imagined that I had detected a new 
Xenocentris in a collection from Goodenough Island and created another absolute synonym. Underside with 
vinaceous suffusion on a great part of the forewing and on two ill-defined distal bands on the hindwing. New 
Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. 
S. biagita Warr. (23 i). Antennal ciliation moderate; midtibia with the hair strong, spurs very unequal, biagita. 
midtarsus long, its 1st joint not specialized. Coloration of phoenicoptem, but with broader pale costal streak, 
hindwing with termen well rounded, both wings with subterminal as conspicuous and nearly as broad as the 
postmedian, more zigzag. Biagi, British New Guinea, only the type known. 
S. pilosata Warr. (= epipasta Turn.) (23 i): Midleg of U with the elongate 1st joint of the tarsus, as pilosata. 
well as the tibia, rather strongly fringed with hair; underside of hindwing also, in its posterior half, clothed 
in the U with specialized hairy scaling, hindmarginal fringe very long. Markings generally weak or obsolescent, 
excepting the cell-dot, fringe-dots and postmedian line, the latter on the forewing generally well-marked 
throughout or at least at costa and hindmargin. Hindwing with termen more produced in the middle than in the 
following. Queensland (the type locality for both names) and New South Wales, also Mefor Island to the 
Bismarck Archipelago and apparently Guadalcanar (1 $ with midlegs lost). 
S. nanata Warr. (= incolorata Warr.) (23 i). Smaller than pilosata , often more ochreous-tinged; mark- nanata. 
ings more equally developed, including the subterminal shades, though in occasional aberations one or another 
marking may be accentuated. Easily distinguished by the <$ legs: midtibia with its inner spur exceptionally 
long, the hair very long and dense, midtarsus hairy nearly to its extremity, the hair very long on the 1st joint, 
gradually reducing; hindtibia with vinaceous hair. Tenimber Islands {nanata), Kei Islands {incolorata) and 
Tenimber; forms from Java and Bali scarcely differ. — ab. taeniata Warr., from the Kei Islands, has the mark- tcieniata. 
ings mostly feeble, the cell-dot- unusually large, the proximal subterminal shade developed into a sinuous fuscous 
band. oenopus Lower (= meleta Turn., MS.) is certainly conspecific, perhaps not even racially separable, oenopus. 
but seems to be on the whole more variegated, with a rather clear pale space between the median shade (which 
is at times broad) and the postmedian. The type came from Cookt-own and the range is from Port Darwin to 
Queensland. — ab. marginata nov., mentioned by Turner as “ab. a', is analogous t-o n. nanata ab. taeniata, marginata. 
but has bot h the subterminal shades strongly darkened, so as to resemble, in miniature, the Palaearctic 
biselata ab. jimbriolata Steph. (Vol. 4, p. 127). 
S. zonata Prout {= fasciat-a Warr., nom. praeocc.) (23 i) is superficially very distinct from all the allied zonata 
forms in the darkened median fascia, but- as the structure seems to be like that of nanata, I shall not be sur¬ 
prised if it is found to be a large and striking aberration of that species. The only known specimens are <$<$ 
from Rockhampton (type) and Kuranda, Queensland. 
S. fuscicosta Warr. “16 mm. Forewing shining ochreous, brownish-tinged; the costa brown, containing fusdeosta. 
2 brown dots, indicating origin of inner and outer lines, which, as well as the others, can be just traced, wavy, 
across the wings; cell-dot- brown, distinct; fringe with very minute brown dots at base. Hindwing with brown 
cell-dot. the lines hardly visible. Hair tufts of legs wholly ochreous, neither black (as in velutina) nor reddish 
