524 NOCTUID.E. 



points bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a pale 

 oblique fascia from apex defined by brown above and below by a 

 triangular brown shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing ocbreous white ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, the termen sometimes with 

 series of black points. 



Hah. N". China, Shanghai, 1 S ; Madras, Travancore, Pirmad, 

 1 (S ; Cetlon, Kandy {E. E. Green), 1 d" ; Singapore {Ridley), 1 $ ; 

 Borneo, Sarawak, type and tvpe simillima in Mus. Oxon., Sandakan 

 {Fryer), 1 J . Exp. 30-34 imiilim. 



1897. Cirphis polemusa, 



Leiicania polemtisa, Swiuh. P. Z. S. 1885, p 447, pi. 27. f. 1 ; Hmpsu. 

 Moths lud. ii. p. 280. 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; palpi blackish 

 at side ; tegulae with two dark lines ; legs streaked with blackish ; 

 abdomen ocbreous whitish. Fore wing narrow, white, the costal 

 and inner areas slightly irrorated with black ; a yellow shade on 

 inner area and below median nervure to end of cell and thence 

 obliquely to apex ; the veins white defined by fine brown streaks, 

 the median nervure more prominently white, forming a very slight 

 hook at lower angle of cell, in which there is a black point ; a black 

 streak in submedian fold to near origin of vein 2 ; a postmedial 

 series of black points bent outwards below apex and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated Avith pale brown, some black points on termen from apex 

 to vein 2. 



Rab. Bombay, Poonah (Sivinhoe), 1 c5' , 1 $ , type. £v/j. 26 millim. 



1898. Cirphis secta. (Plate XCII. fig. 27.) 



Leucania secta, Herr.-ScbafF. Corresp.-Blatt zool.-miii. Ver. Eegensb. 

 1868, p. 147. 



(S . Head whitish ; palpi, sides of frons, and antennae rufous ; 

 thorax yellow, patches on tegulae, streaks on outer edge of patagia, 

 and the thoracic crest rufous ; pectus and legs ocbreous white, the 

 latter streaked with rufous ; abdomen ocbreous. Fore wing yellow 

 with a slight greenish tinge irrorated with a few black scales ; a 

 rufous fascia below the cell ; a streak above inner margin near 

 base: the veins beyond the cell defined by rufous streaks and 

 vein 1 to near base, a more prominent streak above base of vein 4 ; 

 a black point in lower angle of cell, a curved postmedial series and a 

 terminal series; cilia rufous intersected with fuscous. Hind wing 

 greenish yellow, the termen and inner area slightly tinged with 

 rufous. 



2 . Hind wing pale, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 2 cJ . Exp. 24 millim. 



