ciRrais. 



553 



1960. Cirphis hypophaea, n. sp. (Plate XCIV. lig. 14.) 



J . Head, thorax, and abdorfen grey tinged with pale red-brown ; 

 palpi tinged with black at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tegulag with medial black line ; patagia with a few black scales 

 near upper edge ; fore femora black above ; legs and ventral surface 

 of abdomen slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing greyish 

 slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black point on costa, antemedial line by a series 

 of black points oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards ; extremity of median nervure and lower discocellular 

 whitish, with a black point in lower angle of cell and a more or less 

 developed black mark beyond the angle ; a postmedial series of black 

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

 below vein 4 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, 

 paler towards costa ; some black points on termen ; cilia ochreous 

 Avhite. Underside of fore wing suffused with black except marginal 

 areas ; hind wing whitish irrorated with black, a discoidal spot, 

 sinuous punctiform postmedial line, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Cetlox, Maskeliya (J. Pole), 2 S type. Exp. 34 millim, 



1961. Cirphis rubrisecta, n. sp. (Plate XCIV. fig. 15.) 



cf . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi tinged 

 with fuscous at sides ; patagia with some black scales on u])])er edge ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 sparsely irrorated with black, the inner half tinged with pale 

 purplish brown ; a rufous streak on median nervure ; a black point 

 in lower angle of cell ; faint traces of two postmedial series of 

 points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; an oblique rufous streak 

 from termen below apex ; some black points on termen. Hind wing 

 fuscous, the cilia ochreous white. Underside ochreous ; fore wing 

 with the cell and area below it and beyond lower angle suffused 

 with fuscous ; hind wing irrorated with fuscous, slight fuscous 

 streaks beyond lower angle of cell, some points on termen. 



Hah. Bhutan {Dudgeon), 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. 



*1962. Cirphis brantsi. 



Leucaiiia branfsii, Snell. Tijcl. v. Ent. xv. p. 48, pi. 4. f. 7 (1872). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous with a rufous tinge. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and with slight fuscous 

 irroration ; a slight dentate antemedial line angled inwards to more 

 prominent points on median nervure and vein 1 ; a black point in 

 end of cell and red-brown patch beyond it, traces of a medial line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a postmedial series of 

 black points oblique from vein 4 to inner margin and a terminal 

 series. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous ; a 

 terminal series of dark striae. 



Hah. W. Africa, Lr. Guinea. Exp. 30 millim. This species is- 

 unknown to mc. 



