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2, and on vein 1; outer line a curved series of black points; hindwing ochreous white, veins and termen 
tinged with brown. Swinhoe’s type from Burma; Snellen’s from Celebes. 
S. venalba Moore (= linearis Lucas) (13 e). Forewing rufous ochreous; veins white, outlined venalha. 
with rufous or redbrown; streaks of the same colour along the intervals, the cell and space beyond 
rather more strongly rufous; a pale oblique streak from apex; hindwing white slightly tinged with 
ochreous at termen towards apex. Sikkim and Bengal in N. India, Ceylon, Singapore, Brisbane, Queens¬ 
land; the species occurs also in China. 
S. incana Snell. Forewing flesh pink, with paler streaks on the two folds, and above vein 6; the incana. 
veins white-streaked and defined by fine slightly darker streaks; inner line marked only by a spot on 
submedian fold below origin of vein 2; outer by a complete curved row; a black dot in lower angle 
of cell; hindwing semihyaline white, tinged towards termen with ochreous, which bears a row of black 
dots. Bonthain, Celebes, whence Snellen’s type; also found in Sikkim. 
S. byssina Swinh. Forewing ochreous white, somewhat thickly irrorated with black; black byssina. 
points at base, in lower angle of cell, and on submedian fold, the last representing inner line; 
outer line formed of black vein points; a slight fuscous triangular shade on termen below apex; hindwing 
white, the termen faintly ochreous. The type from Mhow, Bombay. A form occurs in the Kangra 
Valley, Punjab, — ab. albifera ab. nov. (= ab. 1 . Hmps.) in which the median vein is whitish at extre- albifera. 
mity and hooked on the discocellular. 
S. leucostigma Snell. (13 e). Forewing ochreous, suffused and striated with pink, and with slight Icucosiigma. 
fuscous irroration; a small round white spot at lower angle of cell with small fuscous patch beyond it; 
a curved subterminal row of black points; hindwing pure white. Java. 
S. fasciata Moore (= furcifera Moore). Forewing dingy greyish ochreous dusted with darker fasciata. 
atoms; median vein and base of veins 3 and 4 greyish white; a brown streak, edged above with pale, 
from base along submedian fold; a brown streak beyond cell above vein 4, joining a subapical brown 
triangle; the two stigmata pale; outer line double, lunulate dentate; hindwing dull fuscous. Sikkim, 1ST. 
India; occurs also at Yatong, Tibet in a greyer form with blacker markings. 
S. melanopasta Trnr. (13 e). Forewing olive ochreous irrorated with black; an obscure black melano- 
streak below base of cell; median vein blackish, except at base; stigmata represented by 3 black points V asia - 
in lower part of cell; outer line a double series of black points, oblique below vein 4, the inner on 
the interspaces; hindwing ochreous whitish suffused with brown, the veins and terminal half darker. Bris¬ 
bane, Queensland. 
S. (?) eutherma Lower. Forewing pale ochreous fuscous, slightly glossy; the markings fuscous; eutherma. 
costa marked with some ill-defined spots; a short dark streak along submedian fold at base; inner and 
outer lines comyiosed of dark dots on veins; a row of black terminal dots; fringe fuscous beyond a pale 
basal line; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base; in both wings the termen is said tobe waved. S. Australia. 
33. Genus; C'lrjiliis Walk. 
Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment rough-haired 
in front, the third short and smooth; thorax with very slight crests; abdomen clothed with woolly 
hair; antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia; tibiae fringed with hair; fore-wing narrow; the 
costa straight; apex subacute; termen obliquely curved; neuration normal. Type C. costalis Walk. 
A small genus confined to Tasmania. 
C. eboriosa Guen. (13 f). Forewing deep purplish pink; the costal edge white; veins terminally eboriosa. 
darkened; inner line marked by dark dots on veins and inner margin; outer by a series of black 
vein dots, incurved below vein 4; a subterminal row of white dots in the interspaces; a white point 
at lower angle of cell; hindwing dark redbrown; fringe purplish pink. Tasmania. 
C. costalis Walk. Forewing paler purplish than in eboriosa ; the costal edge white; inner line mark- costalis. 
ed by dark dots on median vein and vein 1; outer by a curved series of dark vein points; a white 
point surrounded with fuscous at lower angle of cell; hindwing pale reddish with fuscous suffusion; the 
inner marginal area and termen redder; fringe pale rufous with white tips. Tasmania. 
C. obusta Guen. (13 f). Forewing deep rufous suffused with purplish pink; no markings except obusta. 
a faint curved row of outer dots on veins; fringe rufous; hindwing ochreous suffused with reddish 
fuscous especially terminally; fringe rufous. Tasmania. 
