ciKniis. 499 



vein 2. Underside of male with the disk of fore wing and the 

 hind wing except base and inner area suffused with silver ; female 

 with the fore wing and costal area of hind wing pale rufous irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. BuKMA, Bhamo, 1 S type suhnitens ; Borneo, Sarawak 

 ( Wallace), 3^,2$. Exj;>. 42 millim. 



*1860. Cirphis cryptargyrea. (Plate XCI. fig. 32.) 

 Leucania cryptargyrea, Betb.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 197 (1905). 



cS . Head ochreous mixed with fuscous ; tegulae grey, with three 

 fuscous lines ; prothoracic crest grey and fuscous ; thorax ochreous 

 tinged with rufous ; tegulte fuscous and purplish on outer edge and 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; legs with some fuscous 

 streaks ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown, the dorsal 

 crest black at tips, the ventral tufts deep black. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, espeiially in cell, and irrorated with black 

 chiefly on costal and inner areas : the costal area whitish ; antQ- 

 raedial line represented by traces of black points oblique from costa 

 to submcdian fold, then with a more prominent point nearer base 

 on vein 1 ; reniform represented by an indistinct pale lunule ; 

 postmedial line represented by a double series of black points 

 connected by traces of a dentate line, bent outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4 ; a diffused, oblique, pale fascia from 

 apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, the 

 inner area whitish ; cilia white, ochreous at base. Underside of 

 fore wing brilliant silver from before middle to near termen except 

 on costal area, where there is a postmedial fuscous spot ; hind wing 

 brilliatit silver from before middle to termen except on inner area, 

 some black points on termen. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f J in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 50 millim. 



1861. Cirphis decisissima. 



Leiicania, decmssima, W\k. xxxii. 624 (1865); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vi. 



p. 32, pi. 109. f. 6 ; Hi.ipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 2(;9. 

 Leucania vurohi, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 9 (1874). 

 Lemania pulchra, Snell. Midd.-Sum., Lep. iv. p. 41, pi. 4. ff. 3, 4 (18S0). 

 Leucania lanceata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with pale ochreous ; abdomen 

 ochreous dorsally tinged with brown, the ventral tufts black. I'oro 

 wing ochreous ; the veins defined by rufous and the interspaces 

 streaked with rufous ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa, the antemedial line by a curved series of points on the 

 veins ; a white streak on terminal half of median nervure ending 

 in a small hook on discocellulars, a black point in lower angle of 

 cell and a small fuscous patch beyond the angle ; veins 4 and 3 less 

 prominently streaked with white ; postmedial lino represented by a 

 series of black points on the veins, sometimes conjoined by traces 

 of a crenulate line, bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, 



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