538 



noctuid.t;. 



terminal area. Underside of fore wing with some fuscous suffusion 

 on disc ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. alhivena, Fore wing with postmedial series of black 

 points. 



Ab. 2. cyperi. Fore wing without the dark streaks. 



Hah. Belgium; S.W. Frah^ce ; Sardinia; Italy, Central and 

 South, Capri (C. S. Browne), Sicily, Zeller Coll. Ea-^^. 32-3-i 

 millim. 



1930. CirpMs alopecuri. 



Lemanla alojKcuri, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 132 (1840) ; Herr.-ScbafT. 

 Eur. Schiuett., Noct. f. 369; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191. 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; abdo- 

 men whitish slightly tinged with brown, the dorsal crest at base 

 tipped with blackish. Fore wing ochreous suffused with brown, 

 tending to form diffused streaks defining the whitish veins ; a white 

 point at lower angle of cell and black point in angle ; traces of a 

 curved postmedial series of points sometimes present ; a terminal 

 series of poiuts. Hind wing white, the terminal area more or less 

 tinged with ochreous brown ; the underside white, the costal area 

 slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, some black 

 points on apical part of termen. 



II((b. S. liussiA, Sarepta {Christojjh), Zeller Coll.; ?E. Siberia. 

 Ea-ji. 30-32 millim. 



1931. Cirphis irregularis. 



Nonagria irregularis, Wlk. xi. 71- (1857); -Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 281. 

 Leucania cxnosa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent,. xx. p. 24, pi. 2. f. 13 (1877). 

 Axj/lia ahstracta, Swinli. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221, pi. vii. f. 13. 

 Leucania sepidehralis, Lucas, P. Roy. Soc. Queer.sl. xv. p. 149 (1900). 



Head and thorax brown, more or less completely suffused with 

 fuscous ; abdomen brownish grey, the basal crest dark. Foro wing 

 ochreous brown, more or less completelj' suffused with fuscous ; a 

 black streak below base of cell ; a fuscous fascia aloug median 

 nervure, expanding beyond the cell to termen below ape.v and 

 toruus ; some blackish streaks in the interspaces beyond upper angle 

 of cell ; a white point at lower angle of cell ; traces of a waved 

 postmedial line usually present, incurved below vein 4 and with 

 series of black points beyond it on the veins ; an oblique black 

 streak from apex bounding the dark area above ; a terminal series 

 of black points usually present. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 terminal area tinged with brown or fuscous ; the underside with 

 the costal area and termen tinged with fuscous. 



IJab. Punjab, Kangra, 1 (S > Burma, Moulmein (C'lerck), 1 2 

 type, llaugoon, 1 (5, Thayetmyo (Cory), 1 5» Bhamo, 1 5 type 

 absitracta ; Prov. Wellesley (Ridley), 1 J ; Singapore (EkUey), 

 1 c? , 2 $; Borneo, 1 S '•, Java; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 

 1 J , 1 $ . Exp. 26-38 millim. 



