CIKPHI?. 531 



1914. Cirphis insulicola. 



Leiicania inmiUcola, Guen. Noctt'i. p. 82(1852). 



Leucaiiia simplaria, Saiilm. Lep. Madag. p. 252, f. 160 (1891). 



Head and thorax ochreons tinged wilh rufous; tegulfe with two 

 dark lines ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; abdo- 

 men brownish ochreous, the dorsal crest blackish at tip. Fore wing 

 ochreous ; the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated with black ; 

 the veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks, the interspaces also 

 streaked with brown ; the antemedial line represented by obliquely 

 placed black points below cell and in submedian fold ; a black point 

 in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of points, with traces of 

 another series before them, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein -l ; an oblique pale fascia from apex defined by brownish 

 above and below by the triangular brown shade from, tcrmen below 

 apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wnng semihyaline 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with brown, especially in female ; 

 the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated 

 with brown, some black points on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with small fuscous patch beyond lower angle of 

 cell and the terminal area darker. — Gambia, in Coll. de Joannis. 



Hab. S. Leo>e (Cator), 1 $; Gambia; Ni&erta, Sapele (*Sca>?p- 

 son). Id, 1 2; jSTatal, Durban (Gooch), 1 $; Madagascar; 

 EouRBON, typet in Mus. Paris, Exj). 34-36 millim. 



1915. Cirphis compta. 



Leucania comjpta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 336, pi. 37. f. 8; Hmpsn. 



Motbs Ind. ii. p. 272. 

 heucania canaraica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 339. 

 LeJtcania nefasta, Swinb. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1890, p. 219. 

 Leucania stramen, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 68, pi. 144. f. 2 (1891). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous : tcguhe with 

 two dark lines ; patagia with some black scales near ui)per edge ; 

 abdomen ochreous, dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 ochreous, with a slight rufous tinge in and beyond end of cell ; the 

 veins whitish defined by fine reddish-brown streaks, the interspaces 

 also streaked with brown ; the median nervure more pi'ominently 

 white, expanding towards extremity, beyond which there is a small 

 fuscous patch ; the antemedial line usually represented by a black 

 point below cell and often another nearer the base on vein 1 ; a 

 postmedial series of black points bent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4 ; an oblique pale fascia from apex, with a tri- 

 angular dark shade below it from termen ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with ochreous brown 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas tinged with ochreous, some black points on apical half of 

 termen. 



Hah. Ganjam ; Bombay, Canara ( Ward), 1 2 type canaraica ; 

 Madras. Xilgiris {Hampson), 1 S type stramen; Ceylon, Dickova 



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