ciRrnis. 



505 



streak below base of cell and an oblifjue streak on inner area before 

 middle ; a prominent white streak on terminal part of median 

 nervure, hooked on discocellulars ; the veins of outer area streaked 

 with white and defined by fine brown streaks, veins 4 and 3 more 

 prominently white ; an oblique fascia from apex to vein 2, ochreous 

 to vein 5, then whiter with slight black streaks before it above 

 vein 6, then crossing it and extending to an oblique ochreous bar 

 from below vein 5 to vein 2 ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia whitish, with three brown lines through them ; the antemedial 

 line sometimes represented by an oblique series of points on costa, 

 below cell and in submedian fold, then one nearer base on vein 1 ; 

 the postmedial line often represented by a portion bent outwards 

 below costa, then by an obliquely curved series of points, incurved 

 in submedian fold. Hind wing ochreous more or less suffused 

 with fuscous brown, the veins brown : the cilia white, with a 

 brownish line through them ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point, 

 postmedial and terminal series. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy, 

 Capri (C. S. Browae); Algeria; W. & C. Asia; Pdnjab, Kulu, 

 Sultanpore (G. Young), 2 6 , Simla (SivinJioe, Harford), 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 ty ])e penicillata, Dalhousie, 1 $, Thundiani (I'^e/'iro-w), 2^,1 $, 

 Dharmsala (Hoclcinq), 3 c5' , 3 $ ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 1 § . Exj). 

 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 162. 



Flesh-coloured, with a double dark dorsal line and two dark 

 green lateral stripes on each side. Food-plants, Grasses. Spring 

 and July. 



1870. Cirphis albivenata. (Plate XCIL fig. 9.) 



Leurania aJhivenatct, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 217, pi. 7. f. 7 ; 

 Hmpen. Moths Ind. ii. p. 279. 



S . Head and thorax violaceous grey tinged with red-brown ; 

 ])alpi fuscous; sides of frons with black bar; teguUe with three 

 brow^n lines ; patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; 

 mid and hind tibite and tarsi streaked with black ; abdomen grey, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface with 

 oclireous, the abdominal tufts grey and fuscous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey, the costal and inner areas irrorated with fuscous, the costal 

 edge brown ; a black streak on base of median nervure and an 

 oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; a brown shade 

 through the cell and thence obliquely to apex, leaving a fine white 

 streak in lower part of cell ; the costal nervure and veins arising 

 from it, the median nervure and veins 4, 3 streaked with white 

 defined by fine dark streaks, the interspaces with fine streaks, more 

 prominent and blackish above veins 4, 3, 2 ; an oblique pale fascia 

 from apex to vein 3, the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia intersected with w'hito. Hind wing 



