STERRHA. By L. B. Pkout. 
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S. poecilocrossa Prout (7 k). Easily known by its thick, sinuons postmedian line (placed unusually poecilo- 
close to the margin), its delicate violet-grey suhterminal shading, warm brown costal edge and fringe, etc. 
Cell of forewing very long. Hindtibia of with long, slender pencil, tarsus very short. Madagascar, common 
at Diego Suarez. 
S. submaculata Warr. (7 k). Rather broad-winged, with the abdominal margin of the hindwing rela- sKhmucu- 
tively longer than in most Sterrha. The subterminal markings of the forewing are characteristic, ])laced 
somewhat as in fortificata, from which it differs in the weaker, straighter, more proximally placed lines as 
well as the wing-shape. Described from S. Nigeria and distributed as far as French Guinea without variation. 
S. circumsticta Warr. (7 k). In shape near suhmactdata but less ])ale, much more distinctly marked clrcum- 
above and especially beneath, where the cell-dots are further enlarged and the median shade strengthened. 
Further differs in that the seibterminal shading of the forewing is weak, between the 3rd radial and the 2nd 
median not expanded. Fringe with sharp black basal dots. Founded on 2 9$ from Caconda, Angola. 
S. ascepta Front (7 k). A small and inconspicuous species, recalling the Indian actiosaria Walk, ascepta. 
though slightly narrower-winged and sometimes more tinged with reddish. Hindleg of (J short, without the 
strong hair-tufts of actiosaria. From ScojMla minorata it is of course distinguishable by the venation and 
leg-structure. Cape of Good Hope (type locality) and Orange Free State. 
S. carneilinea Prout (7 1), founded on a $ from Cape Town, differs from ascepta in the flesh -pink carneilinea. 
lines and other details. 
S. laciniata Warr. Very similar to nitescens (71). Paler, the cell-dots smaller, median and suhterminal laciniata. 
shades very weak. Shape and structure about the same. Kikuyu Escarpment, 1 
S. nitescens Warr. (7 1) will very inobably prove to be a more irrorated and more sharply marked nitescens. 
form of the p»receding, which has page-priority. Antennal joints of ^ slightly projecting, ciliation moderate, 
hindleg very short and weak. Described from the Kikuyu Escarpment. A short series from Nairobi shows 
it to be moderately variable. 
S. consericeata Prout (8 k). I formerly siipposed that this might be a race of nitescens, which it conseri- 
recalls in its tone and strong gloss, but the structure brings it closer to ascepta and it may prove to be a pale ceata. 
and very glossy form of that species. Transvaal (type) and Orange Free State. 
S. parallelaria Warr. Rather smaller than nitescens (7 1), the distal margin slightly more oblique, parallela- 
the lines almost parallel with it, the ground-colour more brownish. Cell-dots miniite, placed on the median 
shade; terminal dashes almost obsolete. Hindleg of ^ slender, the tarsus long. Kikuyu Escarpment. — 
paraplesia Prout, from the Transvaal, may be a rather larger, paler form of the same species, as the lines paraplesia. 
follow a similar course; but I am not able to study the d' structure. Similar forms occiir in Rhodesia and 
Nyasaland and will require study. 
S. lalasaria Swinh. (8 k). Antennal joints of d' slightly projecting, ciliation a little longer than lalasaria. 
diameter of shaft; d' hindtarsus much shorter than tibia (perhaps K). Costal margin of forewing curved in 
distal half, median shade well beyond cell-spot, postmedian line distinct, proximal sidAerminal moderately 
so; fringes with a dark line and dark basal spots. Machakos, Kenya Colony. 
S. insularum Prout (= rufulata Warr., nom praeocc.) (7 1). Somewhat like the most warmly coloined insulantm. 
ascepta, on an average smaller and showing a slight tendency to develop the subterminal sha<ling of tristega 
(7 k). Hindleg of (J strongly tufted, somewhat as in actiosaria Walk, (to be described in Vol. 12). Sao 
Thome and more recently found on Principe. 
S. inobtrusa Warr., only known from 4 worn specimens from Warri, S. Nigeria, is evidently nearly inohtrusa. 
related to insularum but is much paler. The sole 9, which is less wasted than the (JcJ, shows moderate sub¬ 
terminal shading and is, both in colour and markings, extremely suggestive of a diminutive hiselata Hufn. 
(Vol. 4, p. 126). Possibly a form of the following. 
S. pulveraria Snell., founded on a $ from Lower Guinea (Congo estuary) has the lines apparently puh-eraria. 
more sinuous or dentate, the subterminal shade on both wings stronger. Forms from the Upper Congo and 
LTganda seem to agree with it and I suspect that it is widely distributed, but good material is sorely needed. 
— subculta Prout (8 k), from Barberton, Transvaal, may probably be a race, or even symonymous, but subculia. 
was also founded on the $; except that the postmedian line of the fore wing arises from a conspicuous 
black costal dot which is wanting in Snellen’s form, I can i^oint to no significant distinction. — agrammaria agramma- 
Mah., from the Comoro Islands and Madagascar may be a pale form of the same species; if I have correctly 
determined it, the (L has a strongly tufted hindleg and the black postmedian costal dot is perhaps the 
princijial distinction from inohtrusa. 
