64G KOCTUIT).E. 



terminal areas irrorated with brown, a ciirvcd postmedial series of 

 short streaks ou the veins. 



Hah. New South Wales, Moreton Bay {Biggies), \ S typo 

 ofifiimilis, Sydney (Lambert, Raynor), 2 d , 1 $ , type. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



1946. CirpMs fragilis. (Plate XCIII. fig. 26.) 



SnifMis frngUig, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. IGO; Hmpsn. Mot lis Ind. ii. 

 p. 275. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at 

 sides; abdomen greyish or wilh a rufous tinge in male, yellowish 

 white in female. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; anteraedial line indistinct, oblique and dentate from 

 costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; a small 

 white spot at lower angle of cell ; postmediul line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, oblique below 

 vein 4, and incurved at submedian fold : a terminal series of minute 

 points often present. Hind wing whitish slightly tinged with 

 brown, the veins and termen brown ; the underside whitish, the 

 costal area tinged with grey-brown, some blackish lunules on 

 termen. 



Hab. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpore (G. Young), 4 c? , 4 $ , (Hocking) 

 1 J , 2 2 , Simla (Swinhoe, Harford), 3 c? , 1 $ , type, Dharmsala 

 (Hocking), 3 S , 1 $, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), 1 $ ; Cenxk. 

 Peovinces. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



Larva. Does much damage to wheat in Chindwara Distr., 

 C. Provinces. 



1947. Cirphis opaca. (Plate XCIII. fig. 27.) 



Leiwnnia opaca, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 374, pi. 6. f. 13 (1900) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 192. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorated with brown ; traces of an anteraedial 

 line oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; a white point at lower angle of cell with some fu.scous 

 before and beyond it ; an indistinct dentate postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4. Hind wing whitish, 

 uniformly suffused with brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. E. TuKKESTAN, Korla, Id, 1 $ . Exp., 6 32, 2 36 

 millim. 



1948. Cirphis crenulata, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 28.) 



d . Head and thorax pale brown ; sides of palpi and frons 

 blackish ; tegulae with broad black medial line, patagia with black 

 streak on outer edge ; legs slightly streaked with blackish ; abdomen 

 brownish grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous before the ochreous anal 

 tuft. Fore wing grey, tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with 



