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through the middle of the wing, from the base to the outer 

 margin a little above the middle, another similar but 

 shorter band, edged outwardly with white across the hinder 

 angle, the white continued upwards in lunules near the 

 margin, all the lunules inwardly edged with brown ; ante- 

 ciliary line white, inwardly edged with black in slight 

 inward curves in the interspaces ; cilia grey : hind wing 

 white slightly greyish, nearly hyaline, the veins grey ; costal 

 and marginal borders broadly black, broadest at the apex. 

 Underside : fore wing uniform blackish brown : hind wing as 

 on theupperside ; palpi, head, and collar dark brown above, 

 abdomen grey ; on the underside the palpi white, the body 

 and legs dark grey, the abdomen with some white suffusion. 



Expanse of wings, 1 T 7 ^ inch. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, two examples. 



Gyrtona yucca. 



Gyrtona yucca, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xii. p. 264 (1893). 

 Gyrtona divitalis, Hampson (part.), Phal. xi. p. 217, pi. clxxx. fi<? 1 

 (1912). 



Type, Singapore. I have it also from Goping Perak, the 

 Andaman Islands, and Ceylon ; it appears to me to be 

 perfectly distinct from divitalis, Walker, from Borneo. I 

 cannot make out what Hampson's figure represents ; it is 

 nearly three times the size of my species and very different 

 in colour and markings. 



Lophoptera apirtha. 



Stictoptera apirtha, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 92 (1900). 

 Gyrtona ckalybea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 1(33 (nom. prasocc.)*. 

 Stictoptera chalybea, Hampson, Moths India, iv., App. p. 629 (1896). 

 Lophoptera plumbeola, Hampson, Phal. xi. p. 184, pi. clxxviii. tiff. 27 

 (1912). 



Type, Solon, Simla, in B.M. Type ? , from the same 

 locality, in my collection. I have it also from Sikkim, 

 Khasia Hills, Fort Stedman, and Port Blair, Andamans; 

 Sir George Hampson makes no mention of my species ; 

 he appears to have described my type of apirtha from 

 Simla as plumbeola. I suppose my type-label has dropped 

 off the specimen in the B.M. 



Lophoptera hampsoni, nov. 



Gyrtona chalybea, Hampson, 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 86, pi. cxlvi. fig. 24 



(1891). 

 Lophoptera chalybea, Hampson, Phal. xi. p. 187 (1912) (praaocc.) *. 



Hab. Nilgiris. 



* Phal. xi. p. 191. 

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