544 NOOTUinji:. 



Hah. India (Ifearsa)/), 1 (S , 1 $ ; Sikhim ; Madras, Gooty 

 (Campbell), 2 $, Nilgiris {Lindsay, Ilantpson), 4 c? , 2 $ , Coim- 

 batore ( Walhouse), 1 $ . Ex}'*- 32-38 millim. 



*1942. Cirphis putrida. (Plate XCIII. fig. 24.) 



Leitcania putrida, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 48 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 192. 



Head and tliorax brownish grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulaj 

 with more or less distinct dark medial line ; abdomen grey-wliite 

 irrorafed with fuscous. Fore wing pale brownish grey, shghtly 

 irroratcd with fuscous ; a broad fuscous fascia above and below 

 median nervure to beyond cell ; anteniedial line represented by dark 

 points on the veins with traces of an excurved line below cell ; a 

 white point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line strongly dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4 ; terminal area fuscous, with the veins crossing 

 it grey, running obliquely from termen just below apex to discal 

 fold, then excurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white ; the veins brown ; the terraen tinged with 

 brown ; a terminal scries of black ])oints ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. 



Jfah. W. TuRKKSTAN, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Mongolia, Aksu, in Coll. Piingeler, Avj). 34-38 millim. 



Subsp. palcfstince, Stand. Iris, x. p. 174, pi. iv. ff. 11, 12 (1897). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; teguloe without dark 

 line ; fore wing ochreous ; the fuscous fascia confined to medial 

 area above median nervure ; the postmedial line hardly traceable, 

 except as a series of points on the veins; the dark terminal area 

 reduced to dentate marks in the interspaces. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Syria. Exji. 40 millim. 



1943. Cirphis zeae. 



Nociua zecB, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 1. p. .363, pi. 122. f. 4 (1827) ; ITenv- 



Schtiff. Eiir. Sehmett., Noct. ff. .311, 315 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 192. 

 Leucania indisiincta, Christ. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 79, pi. 4. f. 5 (1887). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous mixed with grey ; palpi 

 and legs irrorated wnth fuscous ; tarsi blackish, with pale rings ; 

 abdomen white, tinged with ochreous. Fore wing brownish 

 ochreous suflFused and irrorated wath grey, the veins irrorated 

 with fuscous ; the antemedial line represented by dark points on 

 the veins or traces of a waved line ; a white point at lower angle 

 of cell ; a more or less prominent dentate postmedial line with 

 more distinct dark points at the veins, bent outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4 ; an oblique dark shade from termen 

 below apex. Hind wing white, the termen with some black 

 points ; the underside with slight dark irromtion on costal and 

 apical areas, a postmedial series of points on costal half. 



