Stictoptera subobliqua (Walker)

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 169

11. Stictoptera subobliqua (Walker) .

Steiriasubobliqua Walker, Cat. 13: 1136, 1857.

Stictoptera subobliqua, I: Iampson, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae 11: 156, 1912.

This moth is recorded from Ceylon, Sikhim, North Assam, Singapore, and British New Guinea. Now recorded for the first time from Guam. Eight specimens were taken on the screen as they came to light at our residence: Piti , Aug. 9 , 19 , 20 , Sept. 4 , 7 , 11 , 12 , 13, Swezey ; Fadian , Aug. 19, four caterpillars on leaves of Ochrocarpus obovalis from which one moth matured Sept. 4, Swezey . The latter and four other specimens are of aberration 1. One in Bishop Museum, Fullaway , 1911 .