riRPHis. 647 



black ; the veins wliitish irrorated with blaek ; a diffused black fascia 

 below base of cell ; traces of an antemedial line, with black points on 

 subcostal and median nervuros, just below the cell and on vein 1 ; 

 the lower part of terminal half of cell suffused with black, extending 

 beyond its extremity between veins 3 and 5 ; a white point at lower 

 angle of cell ; a rather indistinct crenulate postmedial line with 

 black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of ill-defined black marks ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing whitish almost 

 uniformly suffused with fuscous, the cilia white ; the underside 

 white, with postmedial series of black points on the veins and 

 terminal series from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Tegulae without black line and patagia without streak ; fore 

 wing rather redder except costal area, the black markings absent 

 except the points representing the ante- and postmedial lines. 



Hah. Persian Gulf, Fao {Cumming), 1 c? , 1 5» type. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



1949. Cirphis mesotrosta. (Plate XCIII. fig. 29.) 



Leucania mesotrosta, Piingl. Iris, xii. p. 295, pi. 9. f. 9 (1899); Staud. Oat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 192. 



Head and thorax grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge ; ab- 

 domen brownish grey. Fore wing grey-brown with a rufous tinge 

 and slight black irroration, especially on the veins ; traces of a waved 

 antemedial line ; a prominent somewhat lunulate white spot at lower 

 angle of cell on a diffused black patch ; postmedial line arising from 

 a black point on costa, somewhat dentate and produced to black 

 streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous white, with 

 a dark line through them ; the underside pale thickly irrorated with 

 black, a small discoidal spot, diffused sinuous postmedial line, and 

 some stri;e on termen. 



Uab. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 cJ , 1 $ , Amdo. E'oy. 36-40 miliim. 

 Type t in Coll. Piingeler. 



1950. Cirphis unipuncta. 



Nodua unipuncta , Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1809); Steph. 111. Brit. Eiit., 



Haust. iii. p. 80; Harr. Itij. Ins. p. 627, ff. 274-6 ; Riloy, 2nd Rep. 



Ins. Mo. p. 37, ff. 11, 14-16; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 26U ; 



Hinpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 275 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 193 ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 189. 

 Sptslotis punctulata, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Ins. vii. p. 74 (1852). 

 Leucania extranea, Guen. Noct. i. p. 77 (1852). 

 Leucania antica, Wlk. ix. 100 (1856). 

 Leucania convectu, Wlk. xi. 711 (1857). 

 Leucania separata, Wlk. xxxii. 626 (1865). 

 Leucania consimilis, Moore, P. Z. S. 188), p. 336, pi. 37. f. 19. 

 Leucania trifolii, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 114. 

 Leucania sacckarivorn, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soo. 1882, p. 115. 

 Leucania adulteru, SchuuB, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xxi. p. 232 (1894). 



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