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SOPHTA. By W. Warken. 
flavilunata. 
poecilota. 
concavata. 
atrifalcis. 
diplochorda. 
omopis. 
0. flavilunata spec. nov. (24 k). Forewing bright straw yellow, showing only in a band between 
outer and subterminal lines, the basal two thirds and the terminal area, except at apex, being overlaid with 
dull greyish redbrown; subbasal and inner lines slightly marked with yellow below median vein, and by yellow dots 
on costa; reniform stigma a curved black line with some fiery orange scales beyond it; outer line black, strongly 
lunulate dentate, parallel to termen; the subterminal line also lunulate dentate, the teeth pointing basewards, 
the iunules coalescing to form yellow ovals, separated by the dark veins and with an interrupted rufous line 
along their centres; fringe dull red, mottled with yellow at base; hindwing with very little reddish suffusion, 
the whole wing being yellowish with the veins redbrown, and the inner line as strongly marked as the outer; 
underside pale straw colour; the basal two-thirds and the narrow terminal area of fore wing red; the hindwing 
with apex only redbrown and a red cellspot and outer line; he ad wanting; thorax dull greyish red, like forewing; 
dorsum yellow mixed with red scales as in hinclwing. 1 $ from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, 
6000 feet, November 1904 to February 1905 (A. S. Meek). 
65. Genus: ftogihta Walk. 
Tongue developed; frons with a conical prominence with slight upward ridge to between antennae; 
palpi obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment with a fringe of scales at extremity, the third short; 
antennae of £ ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled without crests; forewing with apex bluntly 
produced and depressed; termen elbowed at middle, above which it is excised; the stalk of 9, 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole. Type S. concavata Walk. 
S. poecilota Trnr. (23 i). Forewing flesh colour, irrorated with dark scales; a black dot in cell near 
base and a second just before inner line, which is double, dark filled in with pale, slightly excurved below costa 
and inbent on vein 1; three black dots on discocellular; outer line double, dark filled in with pale, excurved 
above, incurved below middle; a subterminal series of black and white dots, parallel to outer line; terminal 
area redder except at apex; hindwing with costal half fiery red, the inner half flesh colour tinged with dull red 
and sprinkled with black scales; a white discal spot with two black dots on it; outer line as in forewing. Ku- 
randa, Queensland. 
S. concavata Walk. (= nana Walk.) (23 i). Forewing grey tinged with red brown and irrorated with 
some black scales; a black dot in cell near base; inner line double, dark filled in with grey, wavy, bent out¬ 
wards beloAv costa; outer line similar, but outcurved above and oblique below the middle; reniform stigma 
rounded, obscurely defined by brown, with a dark centre; some brown suffusion beyond it on costal area 
to near apex; subterminal line grey, preceded by a series of dark spots; a row of blackish dots before termen; 
hindwing similar, the costal area pale; a blackish discoidal bar; the rest as in fore wing. Moreton Bay and Brisbane, 
Queensland. 
S. atrifalcis Hmps. (23 k). Forewing pale ochreous, tinged with rufous and dusted with a few dark 
scales; a black dot at middle of cell and three at its end; a double straight oblique dark line from end 
of cell to inner margin; outer line double, the inner arm darker, slightly excurved from 6 to 4, but not reach¬ 
ing costa, then oblique inwards; subterminal line formed of double dark striae, obsolete at costa, and in¬ 
curved below 4, the area beyond it brownish; dark points before termen, the subapical point white and black; 
fringe red brown, black at apex; hindwing similar; in the ab. dubia ab. nov. (— ab. 1 Hmps.) the inner arm 
of outer line in both wings is less distinct, not marked with black. Recorded from Ceylon only. 
S. diplochorda Hmps. (23 k). Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with rufous and dusted with blackish; a 
black dot in middle of cell and two, obliquely placed, at its end; a double oblique brown line from end of cell to 
inner margin; outer line double, faint above middle, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique to inner margin, 
with a slight outward curve to vein 4; subterminal line double, faint, oblique below vein 4; the terminal 
aiea more strongly rufous; a row of black dots before termen; fringe deep rufous; hindwing-similar; a 
black cell dot; the outer and subterminal lines oblique and double. The Khasia Hills, Assam. 
This and the preceding species differ from the others in the lines being all inwardly oblique and parallel, 
obsolete below costa, and in their paler ground colour. 
S. omopis Meyr. (= clipyra Trnr.) (23 k). Fore wing rufous slightly irrorated with blackish and silvery 
scales; the costal area more strongly silvery; small double subbasal and antemedian black spots on costa; 
a small black discoidal lunule; outer line black, marked with black dots on veins, excurved above, incurved 
