ciuPHis. 519 



nervure ; a postmedial series of black points bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4, connected by traces of a highly 

 crenulate line ; an oblique dark shade from terraen below apex ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins and 

 terminal half suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish pink and irrorated 

 with black, a postmedial series of short black streaks on the veins 

 and series of black points on apical half of termen. 



Hub. Formosa (Eohson), 1 $ type ; Punjab, Manpuri, 1 $ ; 

 SiKUiM (Lidderdale), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Assam, Khcisis, 1 § type adusta ; 

 Travancoee, Pirmad (Imray), 1 c? ; Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 

 3 c? , W. Haputale (Pole), 1 cjT ; Selangok, Kuala Lumpur [Durham), 

 1 S ; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 c? ; N. Guinea, Bismarck Arch., 

 type t 5 semicana in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 36 millim. 



1887. Cirphis clarescens. (Plate XCII. fig. 21.) 



Leucania clarescens, Moscbl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 143 (1890). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi with some black 

 above ; frons and vertex of head with dark bars ; tegulae and 

 patagia tinged with purplish red, the former with black medial 

 line, the latter with black patch ; metathoracic crest blackish ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous, the dorsal crest dark-tipped. Fore 

 wing brownish ochreous with a pink tinge ; the costal, inner, and 

 terminal areas irrorated with a few black scales ; a black streak, 

 edged below by rufous, below basal half of cell and a similar oblique 

 streak from inner margin near base to below middle of vein 1 ; a 

 black point on middle of median nervure with a white streak on it, 

 slightly hooked at lower angle of cell, then continued as fine streaks 

 on veins 3, 4 ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and another in 

 lower angle of cell ; black streaks in the interspaces above veins 3, 4, 

 the interspace above vein 2 suffused with lilacine grey ; a curved 

 postmedial series of black points on the veins and a terminal series; 

 an oblique grey shade from termen below apex ; cilia intersected 

 with dark brown. Hind wing whitish, the veins and termen tinged 

 with reddish ochreous ; the underside with slight black irroration 

 on costal area, some terminal black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Bahamas, Andros (Zion^oie), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Cuba; Porio Pico. 

 Exp. 30 miliim. 



1888. Cirphis imperfecta. (Plate XCII. fig. 22.) 



Leucania imperfecta. Siiiitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 76 (1894) ; Dyar, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 163. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with browii and irrorated with 

 some fuscous ; tegular with three dark lines ; abdomen brownish 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated 

 with black, leaving ochreous streaks in submcdian interspace to 

 beyond middle, above veins 2 and 3, and in and beyond end of cell 

 to near termen, and an oblique shade from apex ; a slight black 

 streak below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner margin 



