CIKPHI8. 551 



Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, especinlly on the 

 veins and termen. Underside with black spot on costa of fore wing 

 beyond middle and terminal series of black points. 



Hah. Loo-cHOo Is., 2 J {Pryer) ; Sikhim, 1 § ; Bombay, Canara 

 (JFard), 1 J ; Madras, Malabar; Ceylon (Temj)leton, Mrs. Linde- 

 say), 2 5 type exempia ; Burma ; Anuamans, 1 5 type costalis ; 

 Singapore {Ridley), 1 2 ; Borneo, Sarawak (Bartlett), 1 § ; 

 Philippines, Manilla. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



1956. Cirphis semiusta. 



Leucania se}7ii!ista, Hnipsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 69, pi. 144. f. 17 (1891); 

 id. Moths lud. ii. p. 274. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous with a slight purplish-brown 

 tinge ; tegulte with the basal lialf irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen 

 ochreous, dorsally slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 slightlj- irrorated with fuscous ; some purplish-brown suffusion iu 

 and below cell, expanding on terminal area to below apex and near 

 torn us ; the antemedial line represented by a slight angled dark 

 mark in cell ; an elliptical ochreous discoidal spot ; a postmedial 

 series of dark points, oblique below vein 4 ; a fuscous triangular 

 shade from termen below apex. Hind wing whitish, suffused with 

 fuscous except on basal and inner areas ; cilia white. Underside 

 white irrorated with fuscous ; fore wing with some fuscous suffusion 

 in, below, and beyond cell, leaving a white discoidal spot ; both 

 wings with terminal series of black points. 



Hab. Madras, Nilgiris (Ilanqyson) , 1 2 type. Exj). 38 millim. 



1957. Cirphis modesta. (Plate XCIII. fig. 31.) 



Leucania modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 335, pi. 37. f. 11 ; Hmpsa. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 274. 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly tinged with brown : 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; tlie antemedial 

 line indistinct, erect, dentate, with dark points at the veins ; a 

 slight black point in lower angle of cell and some fuscous suffusion 

 beyond the angle ; postmedial line crenulate and produced to black 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 somewhat incurved at discal and submedian folds ; an oblique dark 

 shade from termen below apex with a flesh-coloured tinge before and 

 below it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 white stiffused with fuscous except on costal area ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia ochreous white. Underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with fuscous ; fore wing with fuscous suffusion in and 

 below cell, a postmedial lino slightly angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, a terminal series of points ; hind wing with black 

 discoidal spot with streak before it on median nervure showing 



