CIRPHIS. 541 



ferruginous marks, the latter with white point below it at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmediai line strongly dentate, bent outw^ards 

 below costa and oblique belowf vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area 

 •with dark streaks : subterminal line only represented by the area 

 beyond- it being darker, arising obliquely from termeu below apex, 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds, excurvod at middle ; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous brown ; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged 

 ■with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Asia Minoe. Eithynia, Pontus, Taurus ; Sieia, Dead Sea, 

 in Coll. Piingeler. Edj). 40 millim. 



1936. Cirphis phaea. (Plate XCIII. fig. 19.) 

 Leucania ph(Ba, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 275 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax brown largely mixed with fuscous ; ab- 

 domen brownish white, veutrally irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 pale grey-brown very thickly irrorated with black ; the veins 

 slightly paler and defined by very slight dark streaks : the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks; median nervure 

 with a dilFused fuscous streak extending to just beyond lower angle 

 of cell, where there is a w4iite point ; an indistinct irregularly 

 crenulate postmediai line, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area ochreous, irrorated with black 

 and on terminal area down to vein 2. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson)^ 1 S : Cape Coloxy, Transkei 

 {Miss F. Barrett), 1 c? type. Bxj). 84 millim. 



1937. Cirphis leucosticha, n. n. 



Leucania instdicola, Saalin. Lep. Madag. p. 254, f. 181 (1891), nee Guen. 



Head and thorax purplish grey or brownish ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous ; frons with blackish lateral bars ; tegulae with three dark 

 lines ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged Avith brown towards 

 extremity. Fore wing pale ochreous more or less tinged with 

 purplish red, especially in and beyond end of cell, and sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; the veins whitish defined by fine purple- 

 brown streaks, the interspaces also tinged with purple-brown ; 

 median nervure slightly defined by fuscous above and below, 

 extending slightly beyond lower angle of ceil, where there is a 

 white point ; traces of an antemedial line usually present, oblique 

 from costa to just below cell, where there is a black point ; a post- 

 medial series of black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4, usually connected by an indistinct crenulate line; a 

 triangular brown shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing semi- 



