136 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



tuft grey-buff. Forewing semihyaline opalescent cream buff, a basal and an ante- 

 median oblique band black-brown, a median transverse band black-brown enclosing 

 cream buff stigma, an oblique postmedian black-brown band from costa to vein 5, 

 apex black-brown, from which proceed an oblique postdiscal and a terminal black- 

 brown band which join on inner margin \ inwards from tornus. Hindwing semihyaline 

 cream opalescent buff" with large orange patch at tornus ; a spot at base, a median 

 transverse line enclosing buff spot, a postdiscal and a marginal band black-brown. 



?. Smaller, paler, and with forewing not so produced. 



Expanse, cJ 30, ? 25 mm. Length of forewing, 3 13, ? 10-5 mm. 



1 cJ 1 ? Base Camp, January 1913. 



756. Sylepta crucifera sp. nov. 



o. Antennae, head and thorax buffy orange, spots at apex of tegulae and at base 

 of patagia umber brown ; abdomen orange buff, latero-dorsal patches on segments 4 

 and 5 and tuft black-brown, the latter with orange-bixff marks. Forewing orange-buff, 

 a basal band, a convex antemedian band, a cellular stigma, and an oblique double 

 concave band coalescing with the antemedian band above vein 1 forming a cross 

 dark umber brown ; a spot between and on veins 3 and 4 and a marginal line from 

 apex to vein 4 also umber brown. Hindwing semihyaline buff, margin, fringe and large 

 spot below vein 2 orange buff ; a streak in cell, one beyond it, one on abdominal 

 area and two near margin umber brown. 



Expanse 30 mm. Length of forewing 13 mm. 



1 (J Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



757. Sylepta irreciularis sp. nov. 



c?. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brownish buff'. Forewing semihyaline 

 iridescent orange-buff', costa grey-brown, outer half clouded with grey-brown, a convex 

 antemedian line, 2 spots in cell, a spot above vein 1, an irregular band below apex of 

 cell and a zigzag postmedian band grey-brown. Hindwing semihyaline buff, becoming 

 more orange-buff towards margin ; a cellular stigma, a zigzag discal band and a crenu- 

 late marginal line grey-brown. 



Expanse 32 mm. Length of forewing 14 mm. 



1 cJ Base Camp, January 1913. 



758. Sylepta leucodontia Hmpsn. 



Sylepta leucodontia Hampson, P.Z.S., 1898, p. 7L3 (Celebes). 

 1 c? Base Camp, March 1913. 



