178 NOCTUID A. 
the cell and streak below middle of vein 1; cilia white with some 
brown at base. 
Hab. Mapras, Cuddapah, Jammalamaduga (Campbell), 1 3 ; 
Cnyton, Kandy (JJeade- Waldo), 1 9; Ausrraria, 1 ¢ type wittiyera, 
Townsville (Dodd), 1 9. Evp. 36-40 millim, 
6409. Lophoptera aleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXYVIII. fig. 18.) 
oS. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some ochreous ; 
pectus whitish ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey. Fore 
wing violaceous grey suffused with brown, the costal area dark 
brown, its lower edge oblique from postmedial line to apex; ante- 
mediai line double, waved, hardly traceable on the dark costal area ; 
medial line dark, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly 
oblique; reniform dark brown faintly defined by blackish points, 
conjoined to the dark costal area ; postmedial line double, slightly 
angled inwards below costa, then strongly bent outwards, then 
dentate, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 
costa; two dark dentate subterminal lines defined on inner side by 
whitish lunules ; a terminal series of dark striae. Hind wing black- 
brown with opalescent hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond the 
cell; cilia brown at base, white at tips. ; 
Hab. Qunenstand, Moreton Bay (Gibbons), 1 3 type. 
Evp. 
88 millim. 
6416. Lophoptera costata. 
Lophoptera costata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 125, pl. 159. f. 8 (1885) ; 
Hipsn. Moths Ind. i, p. 403. 
Head, tegule, and prothorax red-brown mixed with blackish, the 
thorax grey pencilled with black; palpi blackish; tegulee with 
blackish medial line; pectus whitish mixed with brown; legs 
brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen fuscous brown 
with dorsal series of whitish and black bars. Fore wing llacinc- 
grey pencilled with dark brown, the costal area dark red-brown, 
expanding between ante- and postmedial lines, then oblique to apex, 
detined below by a yellowish white streak to the postmedial line ; 
antemedial line double, brown, waved, obsolete on costal half; clavi- 
form represented by a slight tuft of blackish scales at its extremity, 
the orbicular by a slight projection from the dark costal area; 
reniform with its lower part incompletely defined by black-brown ; 
medial line brown, sinucus, obsolete on the dark costal area; post- 
medial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then waved, 
incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some pale points beyond it 
on costa; two dark dentate subterminal lines defincd on inner side 
by whitish ; a terminal series of dark striz defined on inner side by 
whitish ; cilia chequered with grey at tips. Hind wing black- 
brown, the interspaces in, below, and beyond the cell with semihyaline 
streaks; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with pale streaks 
