416 NOVIIATES ZOOLOGICAK XXI. I'JH. 



36. Lophoptera flavina spec. nov. 



Forewing : pnrplish brown over a groniid coloar of browuish ocbreous, which 

 appears only in an oblique band preceding outer iine ; lines black, double, filled in 

 with dull gilded 3'ellow ; the inner broad, vertical!}' sinuous, with a dash of brighter 

 yellow above median vein ; outer line obliquely siuuous ; reuiform stigma with 

 leaden grey centre ringed with yellow and outlined in black ; the veins across the 

 brown band darkened ; subterminal line pale, externally black-edged ; another 

 similar line between it and the outer line ; a black terminal line interrupted at 

 the vein-ends. 



Hiiidwiiig : hyaline yellowish ; terminal border purplish fuscous. 



Underside bronzy purplish, the basal half of hindwiug yellowish, the costa 

 dusted with fuscous. 



Head, thorax, and basal segments of dorsum purplish brown ; abdomen below 

 and at sides yellowish, tinged with dark brown on dorsum ; legs in front and palpi 

 purplish brown. 



Expanse of wings : 21 mm. 



1 ? from Ramboekers, Tondano (Weigall). 



37. Lophoptera albigrisea spec. nov. 

 Forewing : whitish grey suffused with darker grey and in parts slightly with 

 pale brown ; the markings blackish fuscous ; a roundish black patch at base not 

 reaching below vein 1, bounded by a curved pale space with the black inner line at 

 its middle, followed by a dark area, black on costa before the white reniform, 

 which has two black dots at its lower end, and expanding into a fuscous triangular 

 blotch that reaches subterminal line on inner margin ; outer line black, lunulate- 

 dentate, the area beyond the reniform whitish, washed boj'ond cell with pale 

 brownish ; subterminal line pale, between dark shades, except beyond cell, these 

 on costa strongly marked and blackish ; black terminal lunules iuterrnpted by 

 pale grey dots ; fringe grey. 



Hindwing : greyish fuscous, deeper towards apex, with traces of dark outer 

 and subterminal lines. 



Underside fuscous ; costa of forewing whitish with blackish striae ; both wings 

 with dark median and outer lines and dark terminal border. 



Head, palpi, and tegnlae black-brown ; thorax and abdomen grey ; the dorsum 

 with black marks. 



Expanse of wings : S 30 mm. ; ? 38 mm. 



3 t?c?, 2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



Allied to the group containing chal;/bea Wlk. and luctuosa Hmps. 



3s. Lophoptera coangulata spec. nov. 

 Forewing : dark purplish fuscous on a pale brown ground, which is visible as 

 a diffuse triangular marking only on costa beyond middle ; inner line double, waved, 

 dark filled in with pale brown, toothed outwards on subcostal, and rather strongly 

 angled outwards on median vein, then oblique inwards ; outer line also double, 

 Innulate, bent inwards below middle to touch the lower end of reniform, then 

 outcnrved again ; reniform indistinct, with a slight interrupted pale annulus and 

 black outlme ; subterminal line with dark shades on each side followed beyond cell 



