CIRPHIS. 



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1894. Cirphis l)ifasciata. 



Leucania bifasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 410 ; Bull. 111. Het. B. M. 

 vii. p. 51, pi. 126. f. 13 ; Hiii^sn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 279. 



$ . Head and thorax ochveous white ; tegulse tinged with purplish 

 pink and with two slight dark lines ; palpi, pectus, and legs tinged 

 with pink ; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally 

 with pink. Fore wing rufous, the costal area pale ochreous to 

 middle, the inner area to near torn us ; a slight whitish streak on 

 median nervure from before middle, the veins beyond the cell slightly 

 streaked with white ; a black point in lower angle of cell, a more or 

 less distinct postraedial series of black points ; a slight triangular 

 dark shade from termen below apex ; cilia pink. Hind wing 

 ochreous whitish tinged with fuscous, especially towards termen ; 

 cilia pinkish at base. Underside of fore wing with the cell and 

 area below and beyond it suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. PuKJABj Dharmsala (Hocking), 2 $ type. £ayj. 36 millim. 



1895. Cirphis atrinota, n. sp. (Plate XCII. fig. 25.) 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; abdo- 

 men ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with 

 black. Fore wing ochreous white ; the costal and inner areas 

 slightly irrorated with black; the veins whitish defined by fine 

 rufous streaks, the interspaces also streaked with rufous ; a slight 

 black streak below base of cell ; the white streak on median nervure- 

 expanding into a small spot at lower angle of cell, in which there is 

 a black point, and beyond which there is a small triangular black 

 patch ; traces of a postmedial series of black points bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a triangular rufous patch 

 from termen below apex and slight marks towards tornus ; cilia 

 deep rufous. Hind wing ochreous white, the termen tinged with 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costal area and apical part of 

 termen ochreous irrorated with black, some black points on termen 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall, Dohhie), 2 J type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



1896. Cirphis roseilinea. (Plate XCII. fig. 26.) 



Leucania roseilinea, ^Ylk. Journ. Linu. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 179 (1862). 

 Leucania simillima, WJk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 179 (1862). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown and tinged with 

 purplish red ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with brown, 

 ventrally irrorated with black ; the claspers of male with thick 

 tufts of hair. Pore wing ochreous white tinged with vinous red, 

 the costa irrorated with black ; the veins white defined by purple- 

 brown streaks ; the interspaces also streaked with purple-brown ; 

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

 margin before middle ; a brown shade below median nervure ; a 

 black point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial scries of black 



