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SICYODES. Bv L. B. Prout. 
cosiipicla. 
olcarift. 
algoaria. 
livieiiaria. 
coryi. 
cambogia- 
ria. 
iardaria. 
S. costipicta Prout. Expanse 38 jnm. General coloration bnff, Avith some pink suffusions, the palpus 
mostly red. Forewing w ith costa almost straight, its edge more strongly spotted AA'ith red than in other hitherto 
knoAvn Sicyodes, some of the spots longitudinally extended; cell-dot very small and Aveak; lines as in camho- 
giaria cj: fringe dark Aunaceous proximally, mostly AAdiitish distally. HindAving almost Avhite, except at anal 
angle and distal part of abdominal margin; line traceable at posterior end only; fringe behind 2nd median as 
on forcAA'ing, anteriorly Avhite. Belgian Congo: kil. 311 from Kindu, \ — olearis suhsp. nov. (13 e) is probably, 
by the shape and-red-dotted costa, a race of costipicta, Avhich I cannot noAV compare. Different in its olive- 
buff or oliA'e-yelloAA' foreAving (cpiite of the same colour as olivescens), incomplete purple-broAvn proximal line 
of fringe of the foreAA'ing, Avhich from the 1st radial at least to the 1st median is merely represented by spots 
opposite the veins, less AA'hite and better marked hindAA'ing and underside, the postmedian of the liindAving 
lAeneath, hoAvever, not arising from a strong costal dash. Transvaal: Nelspruit, October-NoA^ember 1917 (G. H. 
Brei.jer), 3 (J(^; type in the Transvaal Museum. Differs from olivescens in its straighter, red-spotted costa, 
more produced apex, more variegated fringes, ]JOStmedian line of foreAA’ing beneath more oblique at its costal 
end, etc. From Jarse's description and figure (though the latter AA'ould be a someAA’hat Aveak-marked example) 
I gather that this is obAuously the ""canihogiaria (J'' of that author; probably the similarity of the fringes mis¬ 
led him. A much more likely (though not yet proven) $ to olearis lies before me in 2 examples, one from 
]Moord(h’ift in October, the other from Pretoria North in December; less green than the (light pinkish buff 
or more yelloAvish. only in the median area of the foreAA'ing AA’ith a tinge of green), costal edge marked as in 
them, slightly more cui'A’ed near base, termeiiAvith the irregularities of shape intensified and the fringe-mark¬ 
ings stronger (compare the sex-dimorphism in camhogiaria and others), antenna not pectinate, 
at most slightly serrate. 
S. algoaria Feld. (13 e) can scarcely be, as has hitherto been assumed, a large aberration of camhogiaria 
[hivic.ria). The better deA’eloped postmedian costal spots of the foreAA'ing, better develoj^ed (on the underside 
dentate) line of the hindAA'ing and especially the spotted fringe of the latter readily distinguish it. ForeAving 
rather more elongate, AA'ith costa someAA'hat more arched proximally; postmedian line someAA'hat more proxim¬ 
ally placed than is usual in camhogiaria. — Hmettaria Feld. (13f), collected Avith it at Plettenberg Bay, must 
surely be the $to algoaria. It sIioaa's similar distinctions from camhogiarm $in the more elongate Avings, prox- 
inially more arched costa, more proximally placed ])ostmedian line and is further distinguishable by the 2 
small antemedian spots, the dee]) iiiAA'ard curve of the fragmentary postmedian at the fold (forming a lunule 
or — AA'ith the aid of some irroration outside it — a larger part of a moon), little indication of the terminal 
l)and of ty])ical ccmhogiaria . Fringe-line of foreAA'ing incomplete, someAA’hat as in olearis, of hindAving mxich 
as in the (algoaria). 
S. coryi Janise is unknoAA'n to me and no structural description is given, excejxting a very full one of 
the genitalia, AA'hicli are very similar to those of Eupagia valida and curvifascia ; as, hoAA'ever, its author places 
it betAveen hiviaria and ocellata in Sicyodes and makes no mention of exceptional palpus or A^enation, I assume 
that it is rightly placed here. The figure and descri]hion in jnost respects fit algoaria remarkably Avell and it is 
possible that it AA'ill pro\m a sidxspecies thereof. The fringe of the foreAA'ing, hoAvever, is blackish opposite 
the last subcostal and the 3 radials (in algoaria here unicolorous yelloAA’-), the Aving is sprinkled throughout, 
though sparsely, Avith black scales (not discernible in algoaria), the red-l)roAAm fringe-spots of the hindAving are 
tipped AA'ith black and are not found at the vein-ends behind the 3rd radial (in algoaria continued, though some- 
AA'hat AA'eakened). I find no other significant difference in the AAhole of Janse’s careful and detailed accoxmt; 
and it is right to add that he lays the emphasis on the spotted fringe of the h i n d AA'ing and that his key 
only gives '‘cilia often checpiered”, etc., so that the essential distinctions from algoaria become still slighter. 
Founded on 3 from Karkloof, Natal. 
S. camhogiaria Guen. (13 f). Notwithstanding that Janse has done some carefril Avork on the ^ geni¬ 
talia of the species of this group AA'hich AA'ere accessible to him, there still remains much to be accomplished in 
the differentiation of the species and forms and the adjAistment of their synonymy. I feel confident, lioAveA^er 
(notAA'ithstanding that they have not yet been bred from the egg, nor ca]xtured in co])ula), that the tAVo common 
forms here associated (camhogiaria $ and hiviaria t^), AV'hich occur together in so jnany places, are the sexes 
of a single species. The name-typical form, AA’hich belongs to the $ only (Guexee's type “cj”, AA'hich I haA’e 
not seen, and AAdiich AA'as said to be like his AA'ell-knoAvn must, I siqxpose, have been in reality another $), 
is variable, but readily recognizable by the (shortly) pectinate antenna, the bright yelloAA' colour, red-broAvu 
or pxirjAle-broAA'n antemedian s]>ots and extended distal clouding on the foreAA'ing, the latter also generally more 
or less developed on the hindAving. Fringes dark ])roximally, AA'hite (AA’ith dark s])ots op])osite the A’eins) distally. 
— S-ab. tardaria Walk., founded on a very bad specimen from the Ca])e, is eAudently the forjn (generally small) 
in AA'hich only the foreAA'ing is reddish-bordered, this colouring paler (not mixed AA'ith fuscous), though some¬ 
times continuing to rather nearer the costa, the antemedian spots scarcely developed, generally replaced by 
a more extended, but much AA'eaker, pinkish suffusion; postjnedian line generally a little less irregular, inter¬ 
mediate toAA'ards that of the i^. Occasional in Gape Colony, the Orange Free State and probably elseAA'here. — 
