ciRPnis. 527 



*1904. Cirphis polysticlia. (PLate XCII. fig. 32.) 

 Leitcania polysticha, Turner, Piv Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1902, p. 80. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown and fuscons ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish ochreons, the anal tuft 

 fuscous at extremity. Fore wing ochreous tinged with reddish 

 brown and irrorated with black ; the veins whitish defined by 

 fuscous streaks ; the cell aud interspaces of terminal area with 

 fuscous streaks ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and a slight 

 streak in and beyond lower angle of cell; two postmedial series of 

 black points, becoming very inwardly oblique below vein 4 ; an 

 indistinct oblique pale fascia from apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white, with some black points 

 on apical half of termen ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane, type f J in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 42 millira. 



1905. CirpMs rivorum. (Plate XCIII. tig. 1.) 



Leucania rivorum, Guen. Noct. i. p. 82 (1852). 



Leucania fanupa, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 233 (1894). 



5 . Head and thorax pnle, suffused with purplish pink and 

 mixed with a few dark scales ; palpi with some fuscous at sides ; 

 tegulfe with three dark lines ; abdomen ochreous white with 

 slight dark irroration. Fore wing yellowish white, irrorated with 

 a few black scales on costal and inner areas ; the veins white 

 strongly defined by purple-brown streaks ; the interspaces with 

 purple-brown streaks ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and 

 another in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of indistinct 

 blackish points on the veins. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 termen slightly tinged with brown on apical half ; the underside 

 with the costal area and apical part of termen tinged with ochreous 

 aud with slight dark irroration, some black points on latter. 



S . Tegulie without the three dark lines ; fore wing with the 

 veins less prominently defined ; hind wing entirely white. 



Hah. CuB.\ ; Brazil, Ptio Janeiro, 1 5 , Castro Paraiia, type 

 pampa in Coll. Schaus ; Paragday, Sapucay (Foster), 1 $ . Exj). 

 38 millim. 



1906. CirpMs sarcistis, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 2.) 

 Leucania extincta, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 261 (part.), nee Giieu. 



cJ . Head and thorax pale flesh-pink, mixed with whitish and 

 slightly with dark brown ; tegulse with traces of two dark lines ; 

 abdomen rufous, ventraUy paler with some dark irroration. Fore 

 wing pale flesh-pink with slight dark irroration ; the veins whitish 

 defined by fine brown streaks; the interspaces of terminal half 

 with brown streaks ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; a 

 slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex. Hind wing 



