ciRPnis. 527 



*1904. Cirphis polysticha. (Plate XCII. fig. 32.) 



Leiicania polysticha. Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1902, p. 80. 



S ■ Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown and fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the anal tuft 

 fuscous at extremity. Fore wing ochreous tinged with reddish 

 brown and irrorated with black ; the veins whitish defined by 

 fuscous streaks ; the cell and interspaces of terminal area with 

 fuscous streaks ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and a slight 

 streak in and beyond lower angle of cell ; two postmedial series of 

 black points, becoming very inwardly oblique below vein 4 ; an 

 indistinct oblique pale fascia from apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white, with some black points 

 on apical half of termen ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane, type f c5' in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



1905. Cirphis rivorum. (Plate XCIII. fig, 1.) 



Leiicania rivorum, Guen. Noct. i. p. 82 (1852). 



Leucania pampa, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 233 (1894). 



5 . Head and thorax pnle, suffused with purplish pink and 

 mixed with a few dark scales ; palpi with some fuscous at sides ; 

 tegulae with three dark lines ; abdomen ochreous white with 

 slight dark irroration. Fore wing yellowish white, irrorated with 

 a few black scales on costal and inner areas ; the veins white 

 strongly defined by purple-brown streaks ; the interspaces with 

 purple-brown streaks ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and 

 another in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of indistinct 

 blackish points on the veins. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 termen slightly tinged with brown on apical half ; the underside 

 with the costal area and apical part of termen tinged with ochreous 

 and with slight dark irroration, some black points on latter. 



c? . Tegulce witliout the three dark lines ; fore wing with the 

 veins less prominently defined ; hind wing entirely white. 



Hah. Cuba ; Brazil, llio Janeiro, 1 5 > Castro Parana, type 

 pampa in Coll. Schaus; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 5. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1906. Cirphis sarcistis, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 2.) 

 Leucania extincta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. i. p. 261 (part.), uoc Gucn. 



S . Head and thorax pale flesh-pink, mixed with whitish and 

 slightly with dark brown ; tcgulse with traces of two dark lines ; 

 abdomen rufous, ventrally paler with some dark irroration. Foro 

 Aving pale flesh-pink with slight dark irroration ; the veins whitish 

 defined by tine brown streaks ; the interspaces of terminal half 

 with brown streaks ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; a 

 slight oblique dark shade from termon below apex. Hind wing 



