ClRPHJS. 



487 



terminal scries of black points, usually prominent ; cilia intersected 

 with fuscous. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous, the terminal 

 area with brown ; a terminal series of black points ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly irroratcd with fuscous. 



Hah. Formosa (Hohson), 1 S type ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 {G. Young, Hoeling), 6 c? type irrorata, Kangra Valley {Dudgeon), 

 1 $ , Simla (Siuinhoe), 2 ^ type alhivena ; Madras, 1 $ ; S.E. 

 Borneo, 1 $ . Exp. 28-36 millim. 



1841. CirpMs prominens. 



Leucania prominens. Wlk. ix. 102 (1856). 



Lcucania hiRpauica, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 421, pi. 9. f. 5 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191. 



Head, tegulae, and prothoracic crest flesh-colour, the teguloe with 

 fuscous and white medial line and tips ; thorax yellow, with some 

 black scales near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous, whitish 



Fig. 150. — Cirphis prominens, cJ. } 



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at base, the lateral fringes of male yellow. Fore wing ochreous 

 sparsely irrorated with black, the veins defined by slight brown- 

 pink streaks, the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with 

 brown ; the median nervure and veins 4 and 3 white, the former 

 defined below by a brown shade and with a slight blackish streak 

 below it at base ; a black point in lower angle of cell. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with ochreous ; the underside 

 with the costal area sparsely irrorated with fuscous, some black 

 points on apical part of termen. 



Hah. Spain, Catalonia, Zeller and Leech Colls., Andalusia ; Algeria ; 

 Nigeria, Accra {Carter), 1 $; Congo {Curror), 1 $ type; Br. E. 

 Africa, Kikuyu {CrawaTiay), 1 c? ; Mashonaland {Dohhie), 1 cf . 

 Exp. 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Ic. ii. p. 414, pi. 93. ff. b-l. 



Pale yellowish or rufous ; dorsal line fine defined by brown ; 

 subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral lines strong, white in the rufous 

 specimens and defined by brown. Food-plants, Grasses. 5 & 8. 



c. Mid tihin^ f)f male normal. 



tf'. Fore libiii', femora, and cox.-r of male with immense 

 tiitts of lung scales and liair. 

 a". Fore wing with biackisli fascia on median nervure 

 pxfending to near ternirn 



diairrcfa. 



