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D ARANTOIDES; STIGMATOPHORA. By. Dr. A. Seitz. 
rubroflava. 
flava. 
leacrita. 
palmata. 
inanis. 
strigivenata. 
nearly always drop to the ground, often projecting themselves with the help of their long, springy hindlegs 
with such force that they jump across the poison jar held underneath. On the ground they find then no 
difficulty to escape by hiding in moss or tufts of grass. 
The Lithosiiclae do not vary much; on the contrary they are very constant, the same pattern of spots 
and often very distinct bands recurring in the different specimens of the same species. Still, whether among 
the hereafter described forms a larger number may not be referred to one and the same species, can only 
be decided when we possess a more intimate knowledge of the earlier stages than we have to-day of the 
Indo-Australian species. 
In the general arrangement we have followed largely Hampson’s Catalogue in which by far the greater 
number of Lithosiiclae are found so well illustrated that we have merely copied them; those species which were 
not illustrated in colours, were mostly figured from the types in the London Museum. While it is obviously 
impossible to bring absolutely complete illustrations of all the Exotic species, we trust that we offer a sufficient 
number to enable the student to classity and determine his material without difficulty. 
1. Genus: J>arantoicles. i; 
This genus is placed at the head, because it is considered by Hampson in his excellent Catalogue to 
be the oldest of all the Lithosiiclae. Tongue well developed; palpi not extending beyond frons; antennae very 
long, more than 2 / 3 of length of costa, in cf rather long ciliated; tibiae with moderately long spines. Forewings 
long and narrow, widest in the middle, inner margin curved. Highly characteristic is the cell, its end pro¬ 
jecting in two long lobes. The space between median and submedian veins extraordinarily widened, the, 
lower median arising, not as usual near the middle of the cell, but only before the end of its lower arm. 
All the veins are free, neither stalked nor confluescent. Hindwings large, with pointed apex. 
D. rubroflava ILmps. (13 d). Rody orange, hindwings brown. Forewings with broad oblique bar beyond 
cell, and yellow veins. Hindwings with yellow costal area and similar spot before anal portion of termen. 
24 mm. From New Guinea; discovered by Meek. 
2. Genus: Stiginatopliora Stgr. 
This largely Palaearctic genus contains 8 Asiatic species. Ground-colour yellow, rarely red, with dark 
transverse striae or punctate rows, or with hardly any markings. Antennae of c? delicately ciliated. Tibiae 
with long spines. On the forewing vein 2 arises almost exactly in the middle of the cell, 3 shortly before, 
4 and 5 close together at the lower angle of the cell, 6 and 7 are long, 8 and 9 somewhat shorter stalked; 
11 arises a trifle beyond the middle of the upper edge of the cell, 10 about midway between the upper angle 
and the starting point of 11. On the hindwing vein 2 is given forth immediately beyond the middle of the 
cell, 3 just before, 4 and 5 at the lower angle, with very short, common stalk; 6 and 7 with common stalk 
from the upper apex of the cell, 8 from its middle. The larvae feed on rock lichens, the imagines are among 
the larger, more strikingly coloured and mostly also more common representatives of the family. 
S. flava Brem. (= ochracea Led., sinensis Wkr .) (Vol. 2, pi. 11a). This species which I encountered 
at Hongkong locally, though not scarce, as f. i. on the race-course of Happy Valley and the shooting-places 
at Koowlong, advances far into the Palaearctic Region, being also mentioned from Penang in Farther India. 
Wings deep yellow, the primaries with 3 rows of fine black dots, giving it some resemblance to Philea 
irrorella (Vol. 2, pi. lli). Southern specimens mostly represent the form leacrita Sivinh. (Vol. 2, pi. 11a), 
differing from the northern form in the absence of the sooty black irroration of the under surface of the 
forewings, and the larger size of the black dots. — From the similar, but larger S. micans Brem.-Grey (Vol. 2, 
pi. 11a) of the Amur Region and Northern China (Tsing Tan) it is distinguished by the yellow tinge of the 
forewings, which in the otherwise white micans only occasionally suffuses the terminal area. Not scarce. 
S. palmata Moore (Vol. 2, pi. lib) differs from the preceding species especially in having on the 
forewing the punctate terminal rows replaced by rows of black striae drawing obliquely from costa to inner 
margin, the outer one continuing to the apical area of the hindwing. — inanis form. nov. (— ab. 1 limps) 
from Murree has the transverse streaks and basal dots, which otherwise are heavy and glossy steel-blue, finer, 
the terminal striae largely obsolete* the hindwing generally devoid of all markings. Widely distributed through 
Rengal and the Himalayas; enters the Palaearctic Region in Cashmere, whence it has already been described 
in Vol. 2, p. 51. 
S. strigivenata limps. (13d); not. unlike palmata, pale yellow, forewing with rows of transverse striae 
also in basal area, only a narrow median band and the termen displaying the ground-colour free of striation. 
From Pegu in Burmah, where it was discovered by Doherty. 
