ciRPnis. 



543 



areas ; the interspaces of terminal area with dark streaks ; a 

 black point below origin of vein 2 ; a white point at lower angle of 

 cell, with some blackish scales 4)efore and beyond it ; an indistinct, 

 obliquely curved, dentate, postmedial line produced to points on 

 the veins ; a terminal series of points ; a slight oblique dark shade 

 from termen below apex. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins 

 and termen tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal 

 area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Colombia, Minca {H. H. Smith), S i" Coll. Druce j 

 Bkazil, Amazons, E. Jurua (Trail), 1 5 type. IJxp. 48 millim. 



1940. Cirphis atrimacula. (Plate XCIII. fig. 22.) 

 Leiicania atrimacula, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 275 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with a few black 

 scales ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with fnscous. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous, sparsely irrorated with black ; a black point at base ; 

 a white point at lower angle of cell, with a black point before it in 

 the angle and a small black patch beyond the angle with some- 

 diffused rufous beyond and below it : a postmedial series of black 

 points bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; an 

 oblique fuscous shade from termen below apex ; a prominent 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with black. 



Hah. JN^ATAL, Durban (GoocJi), 1 5 type. Ex2). 30 millim. 



1941. Cirphis albistigma. (Plate XCIII. fig. 23.) 



Leucania alhidigma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 337, pi. 37. f. 9 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 275. 



Head and thorax grey to pale olive-brown mixed with dark 

 brown ; tegulse with two dark lines ; abdomen grey, dorsally 

 tinged with fuscoiis. Fore wing pale olive-brown to grey-browi], 

 more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins of costal 

 area defined by fine brown streaks hardly visible except in the 

 paler sjjecimens, the interspaces also streaked with brown towards 

 apex; a slight black streak below base of cell; a slight fuscous 

 shade on each side of median nervure, extending beyond the cell to 

 the ti'iangular brown shade from termen below apex; the ante- 

 medial line represented by obliquely placed black points on costa 

 and below cell ; a small rather V-shaped white spot with brown 

 centre ; a postmedial series of black points bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4, sometimes with traces of a crenulate 

 line before it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins, termen, and inner area tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown. 



