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and the smaller hyaline portion is at the inner margin deep chrome-yellow, not merely faintly tinged with yellow 
as in Sikkim specimens. Body of ? very robust, black, anal segment covered with yellow-grey hair; it hardly 
ever uses its wings. 
S. lucina Btlr. (lOh). Black like the preceding species, but hindwing with two separate spots, one 
near base, greatly reduced, the other beyond it; all the spots faintly tinged with yellowish, the two abdominal 
rings very fine. Forehead orange-coloured, not pale yellow as in sperbius. In the Himalayas, from Nepal, 
Sikkim to Calcutta. —- assamensis Zerny (= khasiana Bothsch). ?: forehead black, thorax with orange collar, 
abdomen with 6 yellow rings. On the forewing a yellowish hyaline spot below the base of the cell, another 
near its apex, one each between veins 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 4 and 5, G and 7, frequently a further small 
one between 7 and 8. Hindwing with two large subhyaline yellow spots. Described from a ? taken in June 
in the Khasia Hills. Length of forewing 17 mm. 
S. madurensis Hmps. (9f). Antennae of c? strongly pectinate. Hindwing brown; frons and patagia spotted 
with orange; hind tibiae with orange stripes; tarsi with the first segment orange; abdominal segments 1 and 
5 ringed with orange; last segment with a small spot. Hindwings with small square spots below base and at 
the end of the cell; an oblique bar below 2, one spot each above 3 and 4, and another small one above G. 
Hindwing with orange median band from cell to inner margin. Madura. A small-sized species. 
S. minor Warr. (lOh) is even smaller than the preceding, having the spots reduced to mere dots and 
the abdominal rings very fine. Discovered by Yerbury in the arid regions of Northwestern India; evidently 
a dwarfed form of one of the preceding species. 
S. insueta Swinh. Nearly twice the size of the preceding; body black with bright, coppery lustre, 
like in minor. Forehead and collar orange; the two abdominal bands as in the preceding; on the forewings 
the spots faintly developed, hindwings with small hyaline spot in the discal area; inner margin tinged with 
yellow. Barakpore, Northern India. 
S. cingulata Web. ( = annetta Btlr.) (Vol. II, pi. 9d) described in Vol. II, p. 39 of the Palaearctic Part, is 
evidently a southern form of the Pliegea Group. China, going south as far as Hongkong and Swatow, but not common. 
S. albapex limps. (9g) resembles the preceding species; hindwing with 2 spots. May be recognized 
by the yellow collar and the white portion of the fringe below the apex of the forewing. Ceylon, evidently 
rather scarce; mentioned from Pundaloya, one of the best and most favoured places for butterflies on the 
island, and from Nawala-Pitiya. 
S. megista Hmps. (lOi) resembles in colouring the species of the Pliegea Group, but has the spots arranged 
quite differently. Forewing with 5, hindwing with 2 white, semi-transparent spots which are nearly all equally 
far apart. Abdominal belts as in the preceding species. Found by Waterstradt on Kina Balu in North Borneo. 
S. khasiana Btlr. (nec Bothsch.) (10 h) resembles the preceding species in the white portion of the fringe 
below the apex of the forewing; in the spotting it approaches lucina (lOh); also the 2 abdominal bands 
are like those of lucina, whereas the intermediate segments show on either side of the back some pale spots. 
Assam, Khasia .Hills. 
S. wuka Pagenst. (10 h) has forehead, collar, breast and legs as well as one ring at the base of the 
abdomen ochreous yellow; the rest of the body and the wings black with a strong steel blue lustre; forewing 
with 6 , hindwing with 2 contiguous spots. — ab. tiandae Hmps ■ lacks the yellow band at the base of the 
abdomen. — ab. metan Pagenst. has all the hyaline spots with the exception of that at the apex of the cell 
reduced to mere dots; also on the hindwing only a minute central dot. 
S. leucozona Hmps. ? has head and body black-brown with faintly bluish lustre. Frons white, shoulder 
and breast likewise; abdomen dorsally spotted with white on segments 1 and 2; a white belt on segment 4. 
Forewings black-brown, with delicate blue lustre; below the middle of the cell a triangular white spot, and 
similar spots beyond the middle below ribs 7, 5 and 4. Hindwing with a round semi-transparent spot below the 
cell, and some similar, smaller ones beyond the middle below ribs 5 and 3. Found at Simbang (Borneo) by 
Moulton; type in the British Museum. 
S. leucozonoides Bothsch. differs from the preceding species in the larger semi-hyaline spots. Within 
the cell a large spot, but the one at the inner angle is lacking. Taken in June near Kuching (Borneo). 
S. formosae Btlr. (= eruma Btlr) (Vol. II, PI. 9e) which has been described on page 39 of Vol. IT as 
occurring in the Palearctic part of China, really belongs to farther India and Formosa. Wings spotted as in 
edwardsi (10 g), but the thorax is much more orange, and the abdomen has not merely the base and fifth 
segment ringed with yellow, but all segments ringed with orange. 
S. flavifrons Hmps. (10 h) has likewise its home in Farther India, whence it has spread to Assam and 
Burma. Its size is somewhat larger than that of the preceding species; on the forewings the spots are similarly 
arranged but larger and more rounded; hindwings with 2 widely separated spots. Head, collar and shoulders 
deep yellow, likewise the rings on 1. and 5. segments. All the other segments with strong blue metallic lustre, 
finely marked with yellow. On the forewing the fringes white below the apex. 
X 
luchm. 
assamensis. 
madurensis. 
minor. 
insueta. 
cingulata. 
albapex. 
megista. 
khasiana. 
wuka. 
tiandae. 
metan. 
leucozona. 
leuco¬ 
zonoides. 
formosae. 
flavifrons. 
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