508 ICOCTUID.T,. 



abdominal lufts prey and black. Fore wing grey-wbitc with a 

 slight purplish tinge ; a brown shade in and below cell and thence 

 obliquely to apex ; the veins white defined by tine dai-k streaks, the 

 intersp-ices of terminal area also with dark streaks, the median 

 nervure except towards base and veins 4, '3 more prominently 

 white ; an oblique dark streak above inner margin before middle ; 

 the antemedial line represented by obliquely-placed black points 

 below costa and in submedian fold, the ])ostmedial line by some 

 points bent outwards below costa and oblicjue below vein 4 ; an 

 oblique pale fascia from apex to vein 2, the area beyond it rather 

 browner; a terminal scries of black points; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing pm-e white, the veins and tcrmen slightly 

 tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 witli brown, a postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins and a 

 terminal series of points. 



JJab. Natal, Estcourt (IlutcJiinson), 1 d type. Exjy. 38 millim. 



1875. Cirpliis micacea. 



Lciicania micacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 67, pi. 144. f. 8 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 279. 



Head and thorax grey-white with a slight purplish tinge : tegulie 

 with three brown lines ; abdomen ochrcous white mixed with 

 brown, the ventral tufts of male brownish and fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish with a slight purplish tinge ; the veins white defined by 

 iine dark streaks, the interspaces of terminal half also with dark 

 streaks, the median nervure except towards base and veins 4. '6 more 

 prominently white ; an oblique dark streak above inner margin 

 before middle ; the antemedial line represented by obliquely-placed 

 black points below costa and in submedian fold and one nearer base 

 on vein 1, the postmedial line by some points bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4 ; an oblique pale fascia from apex 

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

 black points, the cilia intersected with white. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown : the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a postmedial series of slight streaks and terminal series of points. 



The Ceylon form has the thorax and fore wing more suffused 

 with red-brown, the latter especially in and below cell and thence 

 obliquely to apex. 



Jlah. BouBAY, Mahableshwar (Stvinhoe), 1 5 ; Madras, Nilgiris 

 (JIamiison), 2 ^ type; Ceylon, Dickova {Green, Fairlie), 1 cf , 

 1 2 • E-rj). 30 millim. 



*1876. Cirphis circulus. 

 5aalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, 



2 • Head and thorax ochreous, tinged with rufous and with a few 



Leucania circulus, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 268 ; id. Lcp. Madag. 

 p. 260, f. 102. 



