532 



NOCTUIDiE. 



(Giroi), n c? ; ErnMA, Bhnmo, 2 c? type vefasta ; Singapore 

 {Rhihy), 1 d; EoKNEO, Kuching (Shelford), 1 c? . ^-q). 26-32 

 luillim. 



1916. Cirpliis megaproctis, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 10.) 



c? . Head and thorax ochreons white ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 froiis with black bar ; togulte with two black lines and black tips ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge; legs irrorated with 

 black, mid tibife with two black streaks, hind tibite with one, spurs 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white, a sublateral scries of 

 small black spots, the ventral surface irrorated with blnck. Fore 

 Aviiig ochreous white, the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated 

 with black; the veins white defined by fine fuscous streaks, the 

 interspaces of terminal area also streaked with fuscous ; traces of 

 an antetnedial series of points oblique from costa to the submedian 

 fold, where there is a more prominent poiiit, then strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; a black point 

 iu lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, partiallj- connected 

 by a crenulate line ; a very slight triangular fuscous shade from 

 tenncn below apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with black, a postmedial series of 

 slight streaks on the veins and a terminal series of points from apex 

 to vein 2. 



Hah. Ceylon, Haputale (Madcivood), 1 S type, ICandy {I'J. E. 

 Green), 1 J . Exp. 30 millim. 



1917. Cirphis jimcicola. 



Leucama jtmcicola, Guen. Noct. i. p. 83 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. IBS.,' 

 Hcliophila aJjiifa, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 158 (1874). 



Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi with some black at sides: frons 

 rufous below; tegulas with two pur])lish-fascous lines with reddish 

 behind them, the thoracic crest purplish at tips ; pectus puridish red 



Fig. 159. — Cirjokis Jimcicola, cJ*. \. 



in front ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with reddish brown, the 

 crest at base puri)lish fuscous at tij)s, ventrally slightly irrorated 

 Avith black, tJie genital tuf Is largo 



Pore wing ochreous with slight 



