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Simla and Kulu in the Punjab, N. India, and from Ceylon; the type of nigrilinea Leech from Yokohama, Japan. 
S. nainica Moore (= griseofasciata Moore, irrorata Moore ) (12 d). Forewing pale brownish ochreous nainica. 
with some fuscous irroration; the cell and space beyond more rufous; median vein defined by a fuscous fascia 
below it, expanding into a triangular shade reaching termen below apex, its outer half streaked with white and 
hooked at lower angle of cell, in which there is a black point; outer line lumdate dentate, indistinct, generally 
marked only by the black teeth; veins terminally slightly streaked with white, the intervals with brown; ter¬ 
minal black points; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base. Found only in the Punjab; Simla, Dalhousie, Dharm- 
sala, Naim Tal. 
S. insularis Btlr. ( — irrorata Moore, albivena Moore) (12 d). Forewing ochreous with some black insular is. 
speckling; a slight black streak at base of submedian fold; median vein and base of vein 4 streaked with 
white, with slight diffuse dark streak above and below it, running obliquely from end of cell to termen at vein 6; 
inner line marked by a black dot on each fold; outer by a double row of dots, the inner between, the outer 
on the veins, all sometimes obsolete; orbicular and reniform stigmata marked by black spots; hindwing white ting¬ 
ed Avith ochreous, towards termen with brown; both Avings with terminal black points. Described by Butler 
from Formosa; both of Moore’s types from the Punjab, where the insect occurs at Kulu, Sultanpur, Simla, and 
the Ivangra Valley; also from Madras, and S. E. Borneo. 
S. diatrecta Btlr. (12 d). Forewing broAvnish ochreous dusted slightly with black; the costal edge diatreda. 
whitish; a diffused blackish streak along median vein and below vein 5 to near termen, with a white point 
in it at lower angle of cell; a black streak on inner margin from before middle to tornus; terminal intervals 
AAnth dark streaks; hindwing Avhite, the veins and terminal area brown. Peak Downs and Brisbane, Queens¬ 
land, N. Australia. 
S. uda Guen. (= curta Walk., stenographa Lower) (12 e). ForeAving pale brownish ochreous finely uda. 
irrorated with black; the costal edge whitish; an indistinct inner line, oblique from costa to above inner 
margin, Avhere it is angled; median vein slightly white-streaked; a white point at loAver angle of cell with 
some fuscous round it; outer line lunulate dentate, sometimes reduced to two series of points; hindwing 
whitish becoming fuscous at termen. S. Australia. 
S. abdominalis Walk. (= robusta Walk., labeculis Lucas) (12 e). ForeAving rufous ochreous, some- abdomina- 
times with a grey tinge, and with darker irroration; the costal edge whitish; a small whitish spot at loAver ^ 
angle of cell Avith a black point before it in the angle; an outer curved row of dark vein points; hindAving 
white, the veins and termen yellow brown, the fringe with a vinous tinge. Rockhampton, Brisbane, Queens¬ 
land; Moreton Bay, New South Wales. 
S. adjuncta Walk. (12 e). Forewing pale grey brown irrorated with black, the disc tinged purplish; adjunda. 
costal edge whitish; inner line marked by a black dot in each fold; outer by a curved row of black vein 
dots; a small whitish spot at loAver angle of cell Avith a black point before it; hindwing white, veins and 
termen to vein 2 fuscous; the $ is browner without any purplish tinge; in the ab. obscura ah. nov. (12 e) obscura. 
the hindwing is more thickly suffused with brown, and the forewing has a small dark patch beyond lower 
angle of cell; in ab. pallida ab. nov. (12e) the hindwing is whiter, and only the terminal edge brown. Brisbane, 'pallida. 
Queensland; the paler form from Roebourne, S. Australia. 
S.Jeucosta Lower (12 f). ForeAving deep purple red irrorated with black and grey; the costal edge leucosta. 
Avhite; an oblique inner line sometimes traceable; outer line a curved series of spots on veins; some black points 
on termen; a white point on a small fuscous patch at lower angle of cell; hindwing Avhite; the veins and ter¬ 
minal area as far as vein 2 suffused with purplish red; fringe purplish red. Queensland and S. Australia. 
S. leucosphenia Beth.-Baker (12 f). ForeAving ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous; veins defined leuco- 
by fuscous streaks and the intervals also; an oblique black streak above inner margin before middle; a short sphema. 
white streak at end of median vein with a slight hook at loAver angle of cell; vein 4 white-streaked; an outer 
row of dark vein points; an oblique pale streak from apex, followed by a dark triangular shade on termen; 
fringe intersected with white beyond veins; hindwing pinkish brown, tinged with purple, the veins and termen 
darker; dark terminal points below apex. Dinawa, New Guinea. In this species the $ has the anal tufts 
very largely developed. 
S. lasiomera Hmps. (12 f). Forewing ochreous Avhite, the interspaces purplish rufous; veins finely lasiomera. 
black, the terminal intervals streaked with black; inner line a series of black points oblique to submedian 
fold and there angled; outer line interrupted and maculate, oblique below vein 4; an oblique whitish streak 
from apex Avith diffused fuscous below it; a short whitish streak at end of median vein, hooked on discocel- 
lular, with a black point in lower angle of cell and a small spot beyond the angle; hindwing ochreous 
white; the veins and terminal area brown. Preanger, Java. 
S. tangala Fldr. (12 f). Forewing rufous ochreous, Avith some dark scales along inner margin; veins tangala. 
