CIKPHIS. 497 



6'". Hind wing of male on under- 

 side with the silver not ex- 

 tending to termea pryeri. 



f^. Fore w^Jng with rufous streak 



below base of cell hamifera. 



c^. Fore wing without streak below 



base of cell cryptargijria. 



b'*. Fore wing with the costal area 

 coucolorous. 

 a^. Hind wing almost entirely suf- 

 fused with fuscous decisissima, 



i". Hind wing white slightly tinged 



with fuscous nebulosa. 



h' . Fore wing with the pale streak on 

 median nervure not hooked at lower 



angle of cell covgrua. 



i*^. Fore wing without dark streaks in 

 interspaces of terminal area. 

 a?. Fore wing with short white streak 

 on extremity of median nervure. 

 a". Hind wing white, the veins tinged 



with fuscous usfo. 



b^. Hind wing almost entirely suffused 



with fuscous ivfrargyrea. 



//. Fore wing with yellow spot with black 



point on it at lower angle of cell ... suhsignafa. 

 c~. Fore wing with minute white point at 



lower angle of cell simplex. 



1857. Cirphis inframicans. 



Leucania ivframicans, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 90, pi. IGl. f. 2 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 27U. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some brown ; 

 tegulae with three dark lines ; mid tibiae with black streak on outer 

 side ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with brown, the ventral 

 tufts black. Fore wing violaceous grey ; the costal and inner areas 

 irrorated with black, the cell and area below it suffused with pale 

 golden brown ; a blackish streak in base of submedian fold and an 

 oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; the terminal half 

 of median nervure streaked with white, slightly defined by black 

 above, and with a small hook on discocellulars ; veins 3, 4 also 

 streaked with white, the interspaces above them with fine black 

 streaks and vein 2 irrorated with black; faint traces of a post- 

 medial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then very obliquely 

 curved ; a pale oblique streak from apex and an ill-defined rufous 

 patch between veins 4 and 2 ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia intersected with white. Hind wing white, the terminal area 

 tinged with fuscous from apex to yein 2. Underside w^ith the disk 

 of fore w.ing in male and the hind wing except basal and inner 

 areas suffused with silver scales, a postmedial black point on fore 

 wing and a terminal series ; female with the fore wing and costal 

 and terminal areas of hind wing tinged with pinkish and irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. Punjab, Almorah {Bogs^), 1 d" , Manpuri, 1 6 ; CfirLON, 



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