/352 NOCTTTID^. 



through to upperside, traces of a postmedial line with short black 

 streaks on the veins and a terminal series of points. 



Hab. SiKHiM ; Assam, Khiisis, 1 S . Exp. 38-44 millim. 



1958. CirpMs metaphaea, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 32.) 



c? . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; some black scales on upper 

 edge of tegulse and patagia ; abdomen fuscous, with ochreous seg- 

 mental lines, anal tuft, and ventral surface. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous on 

 terminal area ; antemedial line represented by a slight speck in 

 submedian fold ; a slight point in lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, crenulate and produced to dark points on the veins ; 

 oblique below vein 4, and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; 

 an oblique shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing dark fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous, with 

 a brownish line through them. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with fuscous except on marginal areas, a small dark spot on costa 

 beyond middle ; hind wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, 

 the area below the cell suffused with fuscous to near termeu, a 

 discoidal lunula with streak before it on median nervure, traces of 

 a postmedial line, a terminal series of points. 



Hah. Madras, Palni Hills (T^. jET. Campbell), 1 cJ type. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



1959. Cirphis placida. 



Mythimna placida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 79 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 'ii. p. 21, pi. 28. f. 5. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous ; palpi blackish ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge, thorax with a slight rufous tinge 

 on dorsum ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing pale ochreous irrorated with black ; the antemedial line 

 represented by fuscous spots on the veins ; a black point in lower 

 angle of cell and a small patch of fuscous suffusion beyond the angle, 

 the orbicular and reniform sometimes represented by slight pale 

 marks, the latter figure-of-8-shaped ; postmedial line hardly trace- 

 able, dentate and produced to a series of black points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, oblique 

 below vein 4 ; a slight oblique shade from termen below apex ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia 

 ochreous white. Underside of fore wing fuscous except costal and 

 terminal areas, a postmedial fuscous bar on costal area ; hind wing 

 pale ochreous irrorated with black, a small discoidal spot, traces of 

 a dentate postmedial line with slight streaks at the veins, and a 

 terminal series of points. 



Bah. Japan, Yokohama {Pryer, Jonas, Manley), 6 J , 1 5 , typo, 

 Tokio {Maries), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Nikko (Lewis), 1 § ; Corea, Gensan 

 (Ito), Id,] $ ; W. China, Chang-Yang (Pratt), 1 c? , 2 $ , Omei- 

 shan, 1 2> Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), I J, Ni-tou, 1 J. Exp. 46-50 

 millim. 



