f),">2 NOCIUIDJ?. 



through to uppersidc, traces of a postmedial line with short black 

 streaks on the veins and a terminal series of points. 



]Iah. SiKHiM ; Assam, Kbiisis, 1 d . Exp. 38-44 millim. 



1958. Cirphis metapliaea, n. sp. (Hate XCIII. fig. 32.) 



J . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; some black scales on upper 

 ed"e of tegulic and patagia ; abdomen fuscous, with ochreous seg- 

 mental lines, anal tuft, and ventral surface. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous on 

 terminal area ; antemedial line represented by a slight speck in 

 submedian fold ; a slight point in lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, crenulate and produced to dark points on the veins ; 

 oblique below vein 4, and incurved at disc;il and submedian folds ; 

 an oblique shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing dark fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous, with 

 a brownish line through them. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with fuscous except on marginal areas, a small dark spot on costa 

 beyond middle ; hind wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, 

 the area below the cell suffused with fuscous to near termen, a 

 discoidal lunule with streak before it on median nervure, traces of 

 a postmedial line, a terminal series of points. 



Hah. Madras, Palni Hills (T^. i^. Gamphell), 1 d type. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



1959. Cirphis placida. 



Mythimna placida, Bull. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 79 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 ii. p. 21, pi. 28. f. 5. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous ; palpi blackish ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge, thorax with a slight rufous tinge 

 on dorsum ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing pale ochreous irrorated with black ; the antemedial line 

 represented by fuscous spots on the veins ; a black point in lower 

 angle of cell and a small patch of fuscous suffusion beyond the angle, 

 the orbicular and reniform sometimes represented by slight pale 

 marks, the latter figure-of-8-shaped ; postmedial line hardly trace- 

 able, dentate and produced to a series of black points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, oblique 

 below vein 4 ; a slight oblique shade from termen below apex ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia 

 ochreous white. Underside of fore wing fuscous except costal and 

 terminal areas, a postmedial fuscous bar on costal area ; hind wing 

 pale ochreous irrorated with black, a small discoidal spot, traces of 

 a dentate postmedial line with slight streaks at the veins, and a 

 terminal series of points. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Fryer, Jonas, Manley), 6 J, 1 2 , type, 

 Tokio {Maries), 1 S , ^ 2 ■> Nikko (Leivis), 1 $ ; Corea, Gensan 

 (Ito), 1 d, 1 $ ; W. China, Chang- Yang (Prrt<0, 1 6,2 $ , Omei- 

 shan, 1 2 > Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 d , Ni-tou, 1 J • E.rp. 46-50 

 millim. 



