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subhasal line indistinct, "u-avcd, from costa to rein 1 ; auteraedinl 

 line indistinct, slightly defined by p;rey on inner side, oblique, 

 "Waved ; claviform sometimes reprcssnted by a slight pale mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, pale, with fuscous centres and outline, 

 the former round ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, 

 minutely dentate and produced to black and white points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 



Fig. 144. — Dafi/gaster reversa, J. \. 



subterminal line very indistinct, pale, arising obliquely from apex 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous, especially on the veins 

 and terminal area ; the cilia pale; the underside with waved post- 

 medial line and some black points on apical half of termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the extremity of median nervure and veins 

 3, 4 streaked with Avhitish. — New Guinea. 



Hah. Madkas, Cuddapah, Horsleykondah (Camphell), 1 J, 

 Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 $ ; Cetlox, Pundaloya {Green?), 2 S ,2 $, 

 type; New Guinea; Queensland, Brisbane {Turner),! J, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Genus CIRPHIS. 

 Cirphis, Wlk. xxxii. 622 (1865) 



Typo. 



costalh. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2acl joint fringed 

 witii hair \x\ front, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and seales mixed, the pro- and metathorax 

 •with spreading crests ; tibiiE fringed with rather long liair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with the apex somewhat acute, the 

 termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. (Cirphis). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate; tibiae fringed with 

 rather long hair; abdomen clothed with woolly hair. 



A. Fore wing with the costal edge white. 



a. Fore wing deep purple eloriosa,. 



h. Fore wing pale purplish red '. costalia. 



B. Fore wing with the costal edge not white ohiista. 



