51 S NOCTUIPJE. 



with traces of three lines ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edpe ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow, suffused with purple-red except below cell near base, 

 in end of cell, on inner margin and terminal area; the costal area 

 white sparsely irrorated with black, and with greyish fuscous 

 .sutfusion below it ; median nervure streaked with greyish fuscous, 

 its extremity with white, a greyish fuscous patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 5 and 3 ■ subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa, the antemedial line by an obscure series of points oblique 

 from costa to subniedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; a 

 postmedial series of points bent outwards below costa, and oblique 

 below vein 4, where it is met by an oblique shade from termen 

 below apex ; the veins of terminal area with slight pale streaks ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind Aving oehreoiis suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the termen tinged with pink ; cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside pale ochreous, the costal and terminal areas tinged with 

 purplish pink and irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and post- 

 medial and terminal series of points. 



JIah. Assam, Khasis, 1 cJ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



]885. Cirphispyi-astis, n. sp. (Plate XCII. fig. 19.) 



(5 . Head and thorax rufous with a greyish tinge ; tegulae with 

 three slight dark lines ; abdomen greyish with ill-defined darker 

 bands, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow sparsely 

 irrorated with black, the veins, costal area, a broad fascia on vein 1 

 and above vein 2 from its origin to termen and obliquely to apex 

 suffused with tlesh-pink ; one or two obliquely-placed antemedial 

 black points from middle of cell to sulmiedian fold ; a short pale 

 streak on extremity of median nervure ; a postmedial series of black 

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

 oblique diffused yellow fascia from apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apical half of termen 

 tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area ochreous 

 irrorated with brown, some black points on termen towards apex. 

 Ilab. Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 S type. Ea'p. 34 millim. 



1886. Cirphis formosana. (Plate XCII. fig. 20.) 



Aletia formomna, Butl. V. Z. S. 1880. p. 675. 



Leucania a-ch/sta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 335; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 275. 

 Leucania semicana, Pag. Zoologica, xii. p. 75, pi. ii. f. 37 (1900). 



c5' . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tegula? with 

 slight dark tips ; abdomen pale brownish, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing ochreous, suffused in parts with flesh-colour and sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; the veins defined by slight fuscous streaks, 

 the interspaces of terminal half also steaked with fuscous ; traces of 

 an antemedial series of black points oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; traces of ochreous 

 orlncular and reniform stigmata, the latter with black point in 

 lower part and short yellow streak below it on extremity of median 



