504 idOCTTJiua:. 



I*. Fore wing witliout dart streaks in inter- 

 spaces of terminal area. 

 a'^. Fore wing with the cilia not pink. 



a''. Fore wing slightly irrorated with 



black circulus, 



v. Foi'e wing very strongly irrorated with 



black Jlavostigma. 



h^. Fore wing with the cilia pink inornata. 



1868. Cirphis proxima. (Plate XCII. fig. 8.) 

 Leucania ■prox'una, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 124. 



$? . Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegulse with three dark lines ; patagia with some 

 blackish on outer side and some black scales near upper edge ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous brown sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; a black streak below basal half of cell 

 traversing a pale patch except towards base ; an oblique black 

 streak above inner margin before middle; antemedial line ill- 

 defined, irregular, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; a short white streak on end of median 

 nervure, prominently hooked on discocellulars ; the veins of terminal 

 area streaked with white, veins 4 and. 3 more prominently; post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold, where 

 it is connected with the antemedial line by a blackish streak ; an 

 oblique pale fascia from apex to vein 2, with short black streaks 

 before it towards costa and beyond it at middle, the area beyond it 

 darker, with dentate ochreous marks defined by black on veins 

 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia brown, with fine 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing pale, nearly uniformly suffused 

 with brown, the cilia whitish, with brown line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point, postmedial 

 series of shorC streaifs on the veins, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. W. China, Ni-tou, 1 $ , type. Exp. 38 millim. 



1869. Cirphis l-album. 



Noctua l-aUnm, Linn. Sjst. Nat. sii. p. 8.50 (1767) ; Esp. Sehniett. iv. pi. 90. 

 f. 4; Hiibn. Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 227; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 70, 

 pi. 105. f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Inil. ii. p. 270; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 192. 



Leucania Imtrigain, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 334. 



LeucaniapeniciUaia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 335. 



Head and tnorax ochreous slightly tinged with olive and mixed 

 with fuscous ; frons with dark bar ; tegulse with three dark lines ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upjier edge ; abdomen ochreous, 

 dorsally tinged and vontrally irrorated Avith fuscous, a sublateral 

 series of black spots, the ventral tufts of male black. Fore wing 

 ochreous largely suffused with olive-brown, especially from base 

 through the cell and Ihence obliquely to apex and on terminal 

 area; the costal and inner areas irrorated with black; a black 



