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SPEIREDONIA. By M. Gaede. 
hampsoni. 
sikkimensis. 
contractipen- 
nis. 
meridiona- 
lis. 
madrasensis. 
burmanica. 
padanga. 
retorta. 
euphrages. 
recessci. 
hampsoni Strd. has a small dot separated at upper end from the large lower spot. — sikkimensis Strd. has a 
more yellow ground colour, especially at margin. 45—55 mm. India. 
E. contractipennis Joan. (50 d). The arrangement of markings is like that of the preceding species, but 
it is easily recognisable by the outer margin of forewings, which is sharply incised at vein 2 and then descending 
vertically to anal angle. Ground colour grey-brown, darker brown at outer margin of forewings. Antemedian 
line and a streak at disco-cellular indistinct. Median and postmedian lines in a larger arc around the cell, less 
shortly curved than in unistrigata. The pale submarginal line is not quite straight, it corresponds to the curve 
of the margin. Hindwings similar to unistrigata, submarginal line rather more curved. 50 mm. Tonkin, Hainan. 
3. Antennae of $ with short cilia. 
E. meridionalis Hingis . (50 d). $ forewings red-brown. Antemedian line brown, indistinct, vertical. At 
disco-cellular 2 black dots. Median line obliquely excurved under costa, then indistinct, inwards, distally 
greenish grey below costa. Postmedian line somewhat outwards below costa, then inwards, dentate, outwardly 
greenish grey. Submarginal line yellowish, straight. Hindwings widely red at costa, also slightly so at inner 
margin. Antemedian and submarginal lines somewhat curved, median line dentate. In $ forewings paler, red- 
brown in marginal area. At disco-cellular 2 black dots. Postmedian line consists of a row of dots. Submarginal 
line heavily white. Hindwings yellow with heavy submarginal line. — madrasensis Strd. The greenish colour 
below the costa of forewings is replaced by grey. 45—50 mm. Madras, Ceylon. 
E. burmanica Hmps. (47 a). grey-brown with lilac sheen, darker in marginal area. Antemedian line 
indistinct on forewings, dark, vertical. Reniform stigma large, black, somewhat wider at bottom. Median 
and outer lines closely approximated, somewhat outwards below costa, then straightly inwards; the former 
diffuse, the latter dentate. Submarginal line indicated. On hindwings inner margin narrowly red-yellow. Ante¬ 
median line diffuse, heavy; median line dentate, fine. The white submarginal line delicate, terminating at anal 
angle. The $ is yellow, darker at outer margin. Transverse lines more distinct than in Submarginal line 
yellow. 45—50 mm. Burma. — We are illustrating a $ from the Coromandel Coast, which probably belongs here. 
E. padanga Swh. (50 e). Lilac-brown. Forewings lilac-grey at base and on costa. A dark brown stripe 
from apex to vein 5. An angulated dark brown postmedian band to inner margin and a submarginal row of 
black lunules. Hindwings with rose-grey angulated postmedian line. The $ is ochreous brown. At end of cell 2 
round black spots with inner ochreous brown annulets. Postmedian line dark brown, straight, double, thin 
at apex, then wider and terminating at anal angle of hindwings. Distally of this line densely dusted with brown. 
Submarginal line of both wings consists of acute white triangles; with a brown shadow band proximally there of 
on hindwings. 70—80 mm. Sumatra. 
15. Genus: ipeiredonia Eta. 
This Genus is represented everywhere throughout the old world. In Africa there are only 2 species, but 
more occur in palaearctic regions, and most of all in the indo-australian territory. Compare also Vol. Ill, p. 325 
and Vol. XV, p. 218. 
Type: Sp. retorta L. occurring throughout E. Asia. 
Sp. retorta L. and its forms has already been dealt with in Vol. Ill, p. 325. Among these suffumosa 
Guen., which Hampson considered a species. On the other hand in Vol. Ill, p. 325 helicina Hbn. was treated 
as a species, and this Hampson considers identical with retorta. As the Speiredonia species have a close resem¬ 
blance. it is difficult to separate them; this is especially the case in the badly marked, dark c?<?. 
Sp. euphrages E. Prout. This is probably a retorta form. Forewings of $ paler on upperside than retorta. 
Both outer lines around the ocellus gradually approximate, but are separate at inner margin. The submarginal 
lines are quite obsolete. Hindwings with straight diffuse outer and submarginal lines, so that the wings are 
divided into a dark basal, a brown median and a pale marginal area. The $ is similar to the suffumosa form 
(Vol. 3, pi. 60 a), but is darker and less greenish. Forewings more extensively black distally of the inner line and 
between and before the two outer lines at inner margin. The two submarginal lines are undulate, closer together 
than on pi. 60 a in Vol. Ill, with a wide shade anteriorly at inner margin. On hindwings the lines are widely 
diffuse. Distally of centre a wide white band. 75—-80 mm. New Guinea. 
S. recessa Wkr. (47 b). Forewings dark brown, paler posterior to outer line. The dark antemedian line 
excurved, inwards below the cell. The two outer lines uniformly curved around the ocellus and close together 
below it. Posteriorly dark streaks on veins 6 and 7, white on veins 8 and 9. Submarginal line indistinctly double. 
Hindwings dark brown at base, paler in marginal area. In $ forewings ochreous brown, dark distally of ante¬ 
median line, similarly at inner margin between the two outer lines, of which the outer branch is not undulate 
at costa. On hindwings 3 dark straight inner bands, posteriorly a wide white central band. Underside of <$ 
brown, of $ red. 50—55 mm. N. Australia. 
