184 NOCTUIDE. 
medial area, the two antemedial lines black on inner half, forming 
a somewhat conical mark. 
Hab. Formosa, Takow (Hobson), 1 Q ; Prnane (S. S. Flower), 
1 9 ; Perak, Goping (Kistler) ; Stveavore (Lidley), 1 3,1 9 type. 
Exp. 24-28 millim. 
6419. Lophoptera huma. (Plate CLXXVIILI. fig. 26.) 
Stictoptera huma, Swinh. Fascic, Malay. Zool. i. p. 75 (1903). 
2. Head and thorax brown mixed with fuscous black; palpi 
rufous ringed with black; pectus reddish ochreous, the tibize and 
tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen fuscous with dorsal series of 
black bars on pale triangular patches, the ventral surface white. 
Fore wing brown suffused with silvery purple; a yellowish white 
patch on antemedial costal area from near base to antemedial line 
enclosing a dark spot on costa, the medial area beyond and below 
the cell to vein 1 yellowish white; subbasal line represented by a 
slight dark striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 
minutely waved, filled in with whitish below the yellow ‘patch ; 
strie formed of raised black scales in and below middle of cell and 
above inner margin; a slightly sinuous medial line; reniform with 
white annulus defined by black points; postmedial line double 
filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 
minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points 
beyond it on costa and a sinuous line formed by tufts of raised 
black scales defined on inner side by whitish; subterminal lne 
white, slightly waved, bent inwards at vein 3; a terminal series 
of black strize defined on inner side by white; a fine white line at 
base of cilia. Hind wing black-brown, the interspaces in, below, 
and beyond the cell hyaline, the inner area with hyaline streaks 
above and below vein 1 to beyond middle; cilia with a fine white 
line at base and white tips. 
Hab. Stam, Biserat, 1 2 type; Suneapors (/idley), 19. Exp. 20- 
22 millim. 
6420. Lophoptera plumbeola, n.n. (Plate CLXXVIIL. fig. 27.) 
Gyrtona chalybea, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 163; Hmpsn. Moths Ind, i. 
p. 405 (nee W1k. 1864). 
Head and thorax dark purplish brown; pectus greyish; tarsi 
slightly ringed with white; abdomen brown tinged w ith grey, the 
ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing dak 
reddish brown with a purplish grey gloss; subbasal line indistinct, 
double, curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 
double, waved; claviform and orbicular represented by minute 
rufous spots with tufts of raised scales on their outer edges; 
reniform defined by tufts of raised black scales and with rufous 
spot in centre; medial line dark, excurved in and below cell; 
