STRIGLINA. By M. Gaede. 
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S. mediofascia Swh. Reddish ochreous with blackish-brown reticulate lines and spots at the distal 
margin. The main line on the forewing straight to the centre of the inner margin, rather broad, incomplete. 
The blackish band on the hindwing is situate farther inside. Both wings without cellular spots. <$ 25 mm. 
Khasia Mts. 
S. superior Btlr. (91 d, e). Ground-colour greyish-yellow, densely dotted dark. The dark main line 
begins at the distal margin a little below the apex and is mostly distally widened on both wings. Fore wing 
with a large brown median spot which is absent on the hindwing. 24—28 mm. ?m+h4h Is. A specimen from 
Bougainville, labelled superior in the Berlin Museum, shows the band narrower on the forewing, scarcely 
noticeable on the hindwing, but also with a central dot, similar to inversa. 
S. divisata Warr. (91 e). Brownish ochreous. Dark brown at the base, costal margin and behind the 
distal line, strewn with fine black dots. Cellular spot large, blackish. Before the distal margin, between veins 
6 and 7, there are two black dots to which a dark line extends from behind the middle of the inner margin. 
Some more distinct black dots are before the distal margin. The continuation of the line on the hindwing is 
far before the centre. Basal area lighter. Black dots before the margin near the apex and anal angle. 24 mm. 
Natuna, Borneo. 
S. inversa Gaede (91 e) is similar to superior in the ground-colour, but the faded main line begins 
on the forewing at the costal margin before the apex. Central dot of forewing very small, of hindwing very 
large. The dark irroration is very fine. 30 mm. Samoa Is. 
S. straminea Warr. (92 a). Forewing pale straw-colour, with dark brown striae between the veins, 
which are said to be sometimes united into an X or a square, but which I do not notice in the specimens 
before me. Costal margin brownish ochreous, reddish at base. Cross-vein with a brown spot and light central 
dot. Behind it the streaks form 3 or 4 oblique rows parallel to the distal margin. Hindwing similar. The veins 
are brownish ochre in both wings, the upper surface somewhat iridescent. According to a £ determined as stra¬ 
minea, from the Museum of Wiesbaden, and similar specimens from the Berlin Museum, a series of 3 or 4 
spots extends from obliquely outside of the large central spot to the inner margin. 2 or 3 distinct dots are 
before the distal margin behind the cell. The band to the inner margin is not very dark in the larger and lighter $, 
but it is bordered by black streaks. 32—40 mm. Amboina, New Guinea. 
S. glareola Fldr. (91 e). Greyish-yellow. Forewing with a dark central dot and few dispersed dark 
scales. Hindwing without a distinct central spot. 22—26 mm. India. — In scalata Warr. the central spot of 
the forewing is as large as in straminea, Imt the band to the inner margin is absent, replaced by a curved distal 
row of more intense dots. — Extreme specimens of it — ab. nigrata Warr. — show the body partly black. 
All the dark marking on both wings is more extensive and blacker. The $ has a reddish-yellow ground-colour, 
the dark marking is almost still more extensive. Salomons Is. — duplicifimbria Warr. (91 e) is somewhat darker, 
more reddish, forewing dark at the costal margin, central spot very large. A broad band extends from the 
centre of the inner margin more or less narrowed outside around this spot. A few more intense black dots be¬ 
hind the spot towards the margin. A dark band on the hind wing before the middle. Black spots at the base 
and before the margin. 
S. bivittata Mr. (= rufescens Gaede ) (91 e) is stated by Hampson to be a form of glareola. It is smaller 
and darker. Moreover, a median and submarginal band is formed on the forewing by increased dark dusting. 
These bands are not visible on the specimens before me, but dark specimens exhibit a rusty red light spot 
at the cell-end of the forewing. 20—22 mm. Andamans, Assam, Java. — platyntis Meyr. seems to be identical. 
- fuliginosa Rothsch. is very much larger. Sooty greyish-brown with a black hue, a round black spot in the 
basal quarter of the hindwing. $ 26 mm. New Guinea. Rothschild places bivittata to Plagiosella, in my 
opinion this is not correct. 
S. castaneata Hmps. (91 f). Wings bright red-brown, densely and uniformly striated black. Paler 
red-brown beneath, therefore the striae more distinct. 24 mm. Borneo, Singapore. 
S, asinina Warr. Forewing dark smoky brown, reticulated darker. Sometimes a dark spot at the 
cross-vein, another spot below it, forming the lower part of a median band. Costal margin fine ochreous 
except the dark reticulation. Hindwing similar. It may be an extreme form of scalata-nigrata. 25 mm. Sula- 
Mangoli. 
S. derasata Warr. Forewing reddish ochreous with a black reticulation, darker at the costal margin, 
especially at the base. One black spot each at the cross-vein and below it above the submedian fold, besides 
2 small ones behind the cell. Fringe long, one black double dot at the end of each vein. Hindwing paler, veins 
darker than the ground, but the reticulation less distinct. 34—44 mm. North Borneo, Fergusson Is., Tro- 
briand Is. — In ab. vulpina Warr. both wings are suffused with dark red-brown, so that the dark spots and 
reticulate lines become indistinct. 
S. vavauensis Hmps. Forewing dark brown, strewn with small black dots at the costal and distal 
margins. 5 or 6 indistinct red-brown lines and an oblique line from the apex to the inner margin behind 
mediofas¬ 
cia. 
superior. 
divisata. 
inversa. 
straminea. 
glareola. 
scalata. 
nigrata. 
duplici¬ 
fimbria. 
bivittata. 
fuliginosa. 
castaneata. 
asinina. 
derasata. 
vulpina. 
vavauensis. 
