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1884 «. Cirphis atritorna, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish 

 ochreous ; palpi with the second joint blackish at sides ; 

 frous with black bar; tegulse with black medial line and 

 fuscous lines near base and tips ; abdomen grey suffused 

 with fuscous, the sides and ventral surface towards extremity 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 sparsely irrorated with blackish, the costa with black striae ; 

 a white point at base of cell, black subbasal point in cell 

 and brown patch below base of cell ; antemedial black points 

 on costa and veins and patch on inner margin ; orbicular 

 an oblique reddish-white bar connected with the very narrow 

 reniforra defined by reddish white and a white streak on 

 extremity of median nervure; postmedial line represented by a 

 small black spot on costa, then by a curved series of points on 

 the veins ; three small black spots on costa towards apex ; a 

 red-brown patch on termen at discal fold and oblique blackish 

 patch on tornal area ; cilia with series of black points near 

 base, blackish towards tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with a cupreous tinge; cilia white tinged with rufous and 

 with red-brown line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside grey, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 

 suffused with rufous and striated with black, a black dis- 

 coidal spot, diffused postmedial line and series of black 

 points and striae on termen. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Ilesha {Humphrey), 1 $ type. Eoep. 

 34 mm. 



2047 a. Leucania yuconensis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax wood-brown ; abdomen grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown except the anal tuft which is white 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing wood-brown slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the veins slightly streaked with whitish, the 

 interspaces of terminal area with faint dark streal^s; a black 

 discoidal point and postmedial points on veins 5 and 2; a 

 terminal series of minute points. Hind wing fuscous black 

 with some whitish at base ; cilia white tinged with brown at 

 base ; tlie underside irrorated with white, the costal area 

 whitish at base, the veins streaked with white, a terminal 

 series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Canada, Yukon, Dawson City (G. A. Day), 1 ^J, 

 1 $ type. Exp. 32 mm. 



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