CIKPHIS. 



487 



terminal series of black points, ■usuallj^ prominent ; cilia intersected 

 with fuscous. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous, the terminal 

 area with brown ; a terminal series of black points ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Formosa (Hohson), 1 J type ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 (G. Young, HocJcivg), 6 6 type irrorata, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), 

 1 5, Simla (Sivinhoe), 2 j type albivena ; Madras, 1 §; S.E. 

 Borneo, 1 5 . E.vp. 28-36 millim. 



1841. Cirphis prominens. 



Leucania prominens. Wlk. ix. 102 (1856). 



Leucania hispanica, Uell. Ann. iSoc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 421, pi. 9. f. 5 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191, 



Head, tegulae, and prothoracic crest flesh-colour, the tegulae with 

 fuscous and white medial line and tips ; thorax yellow, with some 

 black scales near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous, whitish 





Fig. 150. — Cirphis prominens, (^ . \. 



at base, the lateral fringes of male yellow. Fore wing ochreous 

 sparsely irrorated with black, the veins defined by slight brown- 

 pink streaks, the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with 

 brown ; the medmn nervure and veins 4 and 3 white, the former 

 defined below by a brown shade and with a slight blackish streak 

 below it at base ; a black point in lower angle oE cell. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with ochreous ; the underside 

 with the costal area sparsely irrorated with fuscous, some black 

 points on apical part of termen. 



Hah. Spain, Catalonia, Zeller and Leech Colls., Andalusia ; Algeria ; 

 Nigeria, Accra {Carter), 1 5; Congo (Curror), 1 2 type; Br. E. 

 Africa, Kikuyu (CrawsJiai/), 1 c? ; Mashonaland {Dohhie), 1 J. 

 Exp. 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Ic ii. p. 414, pi. 93. ff. 5-7. 



Pale yellowish or rufous ; dorsal line fine defined by brown ; 

 subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral lines strong, white in the rufous, 

 specimens and defined by brown. Food-plants, Grasses. 5 & 8. 



c. Mid tibipe of male normal. 



a\ Fore tibia", femoi'a, and coxre of male with immense 

 tnfts of lung scales and hair. 

 a^. Fore wing with blackish fascia on median nervure 



extending to near termen diafrecia. 



