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GIRPA ERIOPHORA (Plate 156, Fio. 4, j). 



Hulodea eriophora, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 210 (1852), $. 



Ophisma deficicns, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1383 (1858) j. 



Remigia perjidiosa, Walker, id. xiv. p. 1511 (1858), g. 



Hypopijra apicalis. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vii. p. 178 (1864), $. 



Ophisma cunulifera, Walker, MS. B. M. Coll, g . 



Male and female. Dark lilacine-cinereous. Male : forewing with a transverse 

 obsolescent subbasal and an incomplete antemedial blackish-speckled zigzag line, a 

 faint medial undulated line, three nearly erect discal denticulated more distinct lines, 

 followed by a broader angulated outer duplex line, and a slender blackish marginal 

 line with white-bordered square tipt dots ; orbicular spot and reniform mark very indis- 

 tinct, rufous-brown : hindwing with an inner black-speckled discal fascia, four outer 

 denticulated lines, and a marginal black-pointed line. Female : forewing with similar 

 blackish-speckled subbasal and antemedial incomplete lines ; medial line obsolete ; 

 the three black discal lines and the outer duplex angulated line prominent, the 

 interspace between the inner and outer discal line being broadly and irregularly dark 

 ferruginous ; reniform mark prominent, obliquely curved, narrow, and dark ferru- 

 ginous ; orbicular obsolescent ; marginal pointed line as in male : hindwing with five 

 similar transverse lines, which are most distinct posteriorly, and broader, the points 

 slightly white speckled, and there is a small slightly ferruginous patch between the 

 outer lines near posterior angle ; a marginal black square-pointed line. 



Expanse, ^ 1|, ? 2^ inches. 



GIRPA PERTENDENS (Plate 156, Fig. 3, Zu, $ ?). 

 Remigia pertendens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1512 (1858), (J. 



Male and female lilacine-cinereous. Male : forewing with a transverse subbasal, 

 and an antemedial ill-defined black-speckled zigzag line, a slightly broader undulated 

 medial fascia, followed by two denticulated discal lines, and two outer angulated 

 ferruginous-brown bordered lines, the two outer Unes being more distinct and with 

 a few clustered whitish speckles near upper end ; a slender black marginal Une with 

 white bordered points ; a small blackish-speckled orbicular spot, and a larger reniform 

 mark : hindwing with an inner discal transverse blackish-speckled fascia, two outer 

 denticulated lines, and two lunular ferruginous-brown angulated lines, and a marginal 

 black-pointed line. Female : forewing with the inner lines, orbicular and reniform 

 spots obsolescent; the two outer discal angulated lines coalescent, widened and 

 white- speckled at the apical end, and bordered by the upper parts of the adjoining 

 lines ; marginal pointed line less distinct : hindwing with the Unes broader posteriorly, 

 ferruginous speckled, obsolescent anteriorly ; marginal pointed line also indistinct. 



Expanse, S 1|, 2 1' inch. 



