CIKPHIS. 54-9 



Larva. Head brown, reticulate with dark brown and with curved 

 vei'tical bands. Body green or brown, strigose with a darker shade. 

 Dorsal line nearly lost in a broad dorsal dark powdering, white, 

 dotted ; subdorsal line more continuous, its upper dark border 

 diffuse ; lateral line white, between it and substigmatal band dark 

 brown ; substigmatal band broad, white on the edges, reddish 

 blotched. Leg-shields brown. Food-plants : Grasses and cereals. 

 5-6.— H.G.D. 



1951. Cirphis corrugata. (Plate XCIII. fig. 30.) 



Leitcania corrugata, Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 278 (1894). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish ochreous ; ab- 

 domen with the dorsal crest blackish, the ventral surface irrorated 

 with black. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous, slightly irrorated 

 with black and with some rufoias suiiusion in and beyond end 

 of cell ; antemedial black points on the veins ; a small elliptical 

 white spot at lower angle of cell, with ill-defined yellowish discoidal 

 spot above it ; poslraedial line indistinct, minutely crenulate with 

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

 below vein 4 ; some black points on termen towards apex. Hind 

 wing ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous, rather jialer on basal, 

 costal, and inner areas ; cilia ochreous white, with brownish line 

 through them. Underside ochreous whitish irrorated with fuscous ; 

 fore wing with the cell slightly suffused with fuscous, an indistinct 

 oblique postmedial line ; both wings with some points on termen. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla, Kau Mt. {Harford), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



*1952. Cirphis arcupunctata. 



Leucaiiia arcupunctata, Mssn. Stiibel's Eeise, p. 138, pi. vi. f. 1 (1890). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing 

 brownish ochreous ; the veins streaked with black, the submedian 

 fold with a rufous streak, the interspaces of terminal area with 

 diffused fuscous streaks ; orbicular represented by two black points 

 on its upper edge, the reniform by four black points at its angles ; 

 a curved postmedial series of prominent black points on the veins 

 and a terminal series. Hind wing brownish ochreous, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous. 



Huh. EcTTADOR, Antisana, 12,000'. Exp. 48 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; structural characters examined by 

 Prof. Karsch. 



1953. Cirphis denticula. 



Leucania denticula, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 90, pi. 101. f. 10 (1893); 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 273. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly tinged with reddish 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous white, the dorsal crest blackish. Fore 



