498 noctuib.t:. 



Pundaloya (6?>*em), 1 (^ type; Lr. Bdrma, Thayetmyo (Watson), 

 1 d , 1 5 . Exp. 40 millim. 



]858. Cirphis pryeri. (Plate XCI. fig. 31.) 



Leucania prycri, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 128. 



(S . Head and thorax pale violaceous grey mixed with some 

 brown ; tegulse with two brown lines ; patagia with some fuscous 

 on outer side and a few black scales near upper edge ; mid tibiae 

 with black streak on outer side ; abdomen ochreous white, the 

 ventral tufts black. Fore wing pale violaceous grey ; the costal 

 and inner areas irrorated with a few black scales ; an olive-brown 

 shade from base through the cell and thence obliquely to apex ; 

 a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner 

 margin before middle ; the terminal half of median nervure streaked 

 with white, slightly defined by black above and below and slightly 

 hooked on median nervure ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with white, veins 4 and 3 more prominently ; the veins defined by, 

 and the interspaces with, fine dark streaks, those above veins 4, 3, 2 

 more prominent and black ; an obli(jue whitish fascia from apex to 

 vein 2, the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with fuscous, the terminal half darker from costa to vein 2. The 

 underside pinkish white ; fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 scattered silvery scales, hind wing with the disk suffused with 

 silver scales, leaving the costal and terminal areas pinkish, 



Hab. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 c? , type. Exp. 38 millim. 



1859. Cirphis hamifera. 



Leucania hamifcra, Wlk. Journ. Liiin. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 179 (1862) ; Hnipsn. 



Moths Ind.' ii. p. 270. 

 Leucania mibnitens, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 218, pi. vii. f. 1. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; tegulge with three dark 

 lines ; mid tibiae with black streak on outer side ; abdomen white, 

 with a slight ochreous tinge. Pore wing violaceous white, tinged 

 with ochreous except on costal area ; a prominent red-brown shade 

 from base through the cell to apex, at base extending to below the 

 cell ; the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a white streak on terminal half of median nervure, very slightly 

 hooked on discoeellulars, veins 4 and 3 also streaked with white ; 

 the veins of terminal half defined by sliglit red-brown streaks, the 

 interspaces also streaked with red-brown ; an oblique ochreous 

 shade from apex ; a terminal series of black points ; the postmedial 

 line sometimes represented by some black points or traces of a 

 dentate line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold ; cilia intersected 

 with Avhite. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown from apex to vein 2, extending below the cell to origin of 



