NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAB XXI. 1!)14. 417 



by a short white line, somewhat dentate below cosia and ereiiulate in lower half; 

 terminal line black, with ochreous dots beyond veins. 



llim/niny : with broad black terminal border and hyaline basal area, better 

 defined than in leucostriga Hmps. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. 



Expanse of wings : S ~-l vaxn. ; ¥ 20 mm. 



1 (?, 1 ? (types) from the Khasia Hills ; and 1 S fwm near Manilla, the 

 Philippines. 



In the subspecies niyi-iplaga subsp. nov. the space beyon<l inner line is occujiied 

 by an oblique blackish blotch ; the example, a ? , is from Ht. Aignan. 



39. Lophoptera sordida spec nov. and ab. bimaculata ab. nov. 



Forewing : c? dingy brownish ochreous ; the costal streak darker, grey-brown ; 

 a dull brown patch at base of inner margin ; inner line double, brown, strongly 

 sinnous ; median just beyond it, marked with black points ; both median and inner 

 lines much nearer base than usual ; outer line strongly outbeiit below costa, then 

 angled, and running obliijue and straight, strongly dentate-lunulate to inner 

 margin; orbicular stigma pale, large and somewhat flattened; the reniform large 

 with a brown lunular centre, outlined laterally with black spots ; subterminal line 

 pale brown between two series of dark brown lunnlate markings, the veins between 

 them dark brown ; the lunule between veins 4 and u before subterminal line 

 blackish ; terminal line black, interrnpted by pale brown dots beyond the veins ; 

 fringe white, rayed with black beyond the veins. 



Ilindwiiig : black-brown, the fringe brownish ochreous ; basal area slightly 

 paler. 



Underside dull olive fuscous with darker bands and paler intervals. 



Head and thorax concolorous with forewing ; abdomen with hindwing, bnt 

 the centre of dorsum is narrowly pale brown ; venter pale ochreous ; legs grey- 

 brown with the joints pale. 



? much paler, ochreous or brownish ochreous, with the markings clearer ; the 

 hindwing pale greyish fuscous with darker veins ; the parts of the body proportion- 

 ally paler. 



The paler ochreous of the 2 ? ? , marked on the forewing with two large black 

 patches, one on the submedian fold before middle, the other beyond middle 

 between veins 2 and 4 on the outer line, may be distinguished as ab. bimaculata 

 ab. nov. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



3 cf (?, 2 ¥ ? from the Khasia Hills. 



411. Lophoptera brunneata spec. nov. 



Forewing : S dull red-brown, the marginal areas all blacker and diffuse ; 

 three or four waved dark lines at base, dentate inwards on median vein ; inner line 

 double, black, angled outwards on each fold, inwards on median vein and vein 1 ; 

 a black spot between the arms on submedian fold ; median line black, parallel, 

 touching the reniform which is oval, oblique, outlined in black ; its lower half 

 acutely serrate, like the double black outer line and the two following it before the 

 subterminal line which ends at anal angle in a white spot ; a tliick black terminal 

 line with pale dots beyond veins ; fringe iron-grey. 



