650 NOCTUID^E. 



wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the antemedial line brownish with fuscous points on the 

 veins, obliquely sinuous from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; the orbicular represented by a small black- 

 brown spot in cell, the reniform by a larger somewhat quadrate 

 spot ; postmedial line brown with black points at the veins, crenu- 

 late, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a slight 

 triangular shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area and cilia 

 ochreous white ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with 

 fuscous, the inner half of terminal area suffused with fuscous, 

 a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and some points on 

 terraen. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 1 $ type. Eay. 44 millim. 



1954. Cirphis pastea, n. sp. (Plate XCVI. fig. 13.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown ; 

 palpi brownish at sides ; frons with brown bar ; tegulie with three 

 brown lines ; i)atagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi 

 with dark rings ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally suffused with 

 brown, ventrally irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous white 

 irrorated and striated with rufous and dark brown ; some brown 

 suffusion below middle of costa ; orbicular represented by a small 

 round brown spot, the reniform by a large rather diffused lunule ; 

 a diffused brown fascia beyond lower angle of cell connected with a 

 triangular shade from termen below apex ; a curved postmedial series 

 of black points with an ill-defined brown shade beyond them ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous white intersected 

 with brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia white with a brownish line through them ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunula 

 and terminal series of points. 



Hab. Assam, Khasis, 1 2 type. E^iy. 36 millim. 



1955. CirpMs yu. 



Leucania yu, Guen. Noct. i. p. 78 (1852). 



Leucania exempta, Wlk. xi. 710 (1857) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 90, 



pi. 161. f. 9; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 273. 

 Leucania costaUs, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 603, pi. 59. f. 11. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous ; the cell 

 defined below and beyond extremity by rufous and fuscous suffusion ; 

 traces of a waved antemedial line, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular represented by a 

 small black spot in cell ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line rather indistinct, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, and oblique below vein 4 ; a slight oblique 

 shade from terraen below apex ; a terminal series of black points. 



