LOPHOPTERA. 179 
in, below, and beyond end of cell ; hind wing with curved dark post- 
medial line. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing without the whitish streak beyond the costal 
area, 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with diffused white below the costal area. 
Hab, W. Curna, Kia-ting-fu, 1 ¢ ; Puxsas, Kulu, Sultanpur 
(G. Young), 1 9, Simla (Harford), 1 ¢, Kangra (Dudgeon), 2 3, 
Dharmsala (Hocking), 5 g, 2 9 ; Sram (Moller}, 1 2 ; Ceyton, 
2 ¢ type; Sineapore (Ridley),2 $. Kup. 30-42 millim, 
6411. Lophoptera methyalea. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 19.) 
Stictoptera methyalea, Hmpsn. Ann, 8. Afr. Mus, ii. p. 309 (1902). 
Head and thorax fuscous biack mixed with some brown and 
tinged with grey; pectus grey-white; legs whitish suffused 
with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen pale 
grey, the crests darker, the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing 
grey suffused with fuscous and some brown, the basal area suffused 
with black; traces of a double waved subbasal line, from costa to 
vein 1; antemedial line double, highly waved; claviform repre- 
sented by a tuft of black scales ; medial line blackish, oblique from 
costa to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin; reni- 
form slightly defined by blackish, constricted at middle and 
extending to submedien fold; postmedial line double, strongly bent 
outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 
below vein 4 to the reniform, a band of blackish suffusion beyond 
it except towards costa defined by a sinuous line of raised black 
scales, then a reddish brown band; subterminal line slight, greyish, 
somewhat dentate with slight dark streaks beyond it in the inter- 
spaces and more prominent streak below costa; a terminal series 
of blackish strive. Hind wing hyaline, the costa, inner margin, and 
terminal area black, the last with rather irregular inner edge ; cilia 
brown at base, white at tips. 
Hab, Conco, Katanga, Kambove (eae), 1 2 ; MaAsHonaLann, 
Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ type. “vp. 30 millim. 
*6412. Lophoptera semirufa. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 20.) 
Lophoptera semirufa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. ined. 
Head and thorax deep rufous; tarsi dark brown ringed with 
white ; abdomen dark brown with grey segmental rings, the crests 
on 3rd and 4th segments rufous, the ventral surface white mixed 
with brown. Fore wing with the basal area deep rufous, its outer 
edge obliquely curved from costa before middle to inner margin at 
postmedial line and defined by whitish, the terminal area grey 
thickly irrorated with dark brown and with some deep red-brown 
suffusion on apical area and from vein 4 to tornus; subbasal line 
indistinct, double, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 
indistinct, double, oblique to median nervure, then angled inwards 
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