498 xocTuin.T?. 



Puiiclaloya (G^i'Ct'n), 1 J type; Lr. Bcrma, Thayctrayo (Watson), 

 1 d , 1 $ . J^^v2^- 40 millim. 



]858. Cirphis pryeri. (Plate XCI. fig. 31.) 

 Leiicaniapryeri, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 128. 



S . Head and thorax pale violaceous grey mixed with some 

 brown ; tegula? with two brown lines ; patagia with some fuscous 

 on outer side and a few black scales near upper edge ; mid tibiae 

 with black streak on outer side ; abdomen ochreous white, the 

 ventral tufts black. Fore wing pale violaceous grey ; the costal 

 and inner areas irroratcd with a few black scales ; an olive-brown 

 shade from base through the cell and thence obliquely to apex ; 

 a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner 

 margin before middle ; the terminal half of median nervure streaked 

 with white, slightly defined by black above and below and slightly 

 hooked on median nervnire ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with white, veins 4 and 3 more promiuentl)'; the veins defined by, 

 and the interspaces with, fine dark streaks, those above veins 4, 3, 2 

 more prominent and black ; an obli(jue whitish fascia from apex to 

 vein 2, the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with fuscous, the terminal half darker from costa to vein 2. The 

 underside pinkish white ; fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 scattered silvery scales, hind wing with the disk suffused with 

 silver scales, leaving the costal and terminal areas pinkish. 



Bab. Japan, Yokohama {Prt/er), 1 (5 , type. Ea'2J. 38 millim. 



1859. Cirphis hamifera. 



Leucania hamifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 179 (1862) ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind." ii. p. 270. 

 Leucania »nbnitens, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 218, pi. vii. f. 1. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; tegulte with three dark 

 lines ; mid tibite with black streak on outer side ; abdomen white, 

 with a slight ochreous tinge. Fore wing violaceous white, tinged 

 with ochreous except on costal area ; a prominent red-brown shade 

 from base through the cell to apex, at base extending to below the 

 cell ; the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a white streak on terminal half of median nervure, very slightly 

 hooked on discocellulars, veins 4 and 3 also streaked with white ; 

 the veins of terminal half defined by shght red-brown streaks, the 

 interspaces also streaked with red-brown ; an oblique ochreous 

 shade from apex ; a terminal series of black points ; the postmedial 

 line sometimes represented by some black points or traces of a 

 dentate line bent outwards below cobta, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique and angled inwards in submcdian fold ; cilia intersected 

 with white. Hind wing white, tlie terminal area tinged with 

 brown from apex to vein 2, fxtending below the cell to origin of 



