CIKPHIS. 507 



a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia pale rufous, whitish at tips. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous, with the tCostal and terminal areas pinkish ; 

 hind wing pinkish irrorated with black, a discoidal spot, postmedial 

 series of slight streaks on the veins, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. PirsjAB, Kulu, Sultanpore {G. Young), I $, Dharmsala 

 (Boding), 2 (5,5 $ , type diipUcaia ; Sikhisi {Lidderdale), 2 S 

 type prominens ; Assam, Khasis, 4 cJ , 1 $ , type riifida. Exp. 32- 

 42 millim. 



1873. Cirphis albicosta. (Plate XCII. fig. 12.) 



Leucania albicosta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 338, pi. 37. f. 10 ; Hmpsn. 



Moths lud. ii. p. 279. 

 Leucania nigriUnco.m, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 103 (1882). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-wbite mixed with brown and 

 very slightly tinged with purple ; tegulae with two brown lines ; 

 abdominal tufts of male grey and fuscous. Fore wing pale grey 

 with a slight purplish tinge ; a reddish-brown shade from base in 

 and below cell and thence obliquely to apex ; a slight dark streak 

 below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner margin before 

 middle ; the veins streaked with white and defined by fine brown 

 s reaks, the intersi aces of terminal area also with dark streaks, 

 the median nervure except towards base and veins 4, 3 more 

 prominently white ; the antemcdial line represented by slight 

 obliquely-placed black points below co.sta and in submedian fold, 

 the p'^stmedial line by some black points bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4 ; an obliqi;e jiale fascia from apex 

 to vein 2, the area beyond it browner ; a terminal series of black 

 ])oints. Hind Aving whitish tinged with brown, especially on 

 veins and terminal half; the cil'a whitish; the underside pale, 

 slightly tinged with purplish and irrorated with black, a small 

 discoidal spot, postmedial scries of slight streaks on the veins, and 

 terminal series of points. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniformly suffused with red-brown, the 

 pale fascia from apex slighter. 



Hah. Japan, Oiwake {Fryer), 1 5 ; \Y. Chiija, Washan (Pratt), 

 1 J ; Kashmir, Narkundah (McArthur), 1 2 ; Punjab, Kulu, 

 Sultaiipore (G. Young), 1 c? , 1 $ , Simla (Harford), 3 5 , Dalhousie 

 (Harford), 1^,1$, Dharmsala (HocHng), 6 c? , 4 $ , type; 

 SiKHiM Tibet, Tatong (Hohson), 1 § ; Sikhim ; Bhutan. Exp. 

 36-40 millim. 



1874. CirpMs polyrabda, n. sp. (Plate XCII. fig. 13.) 

 Leucania albicosta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 273 (1902), nee Moore. 



(5 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and with a 

 very slight purplish tinge ; palpi brown at sides ; teguUe with three 

 dark lines; mid and hind tibiae and tarsi streaked with brown ; 

 abdomen grey mixed with brown, the ventral surface fuscous, the 



