186 NOCIUIDE, 
from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, minutely waved ; 
claviform and orbicular represented by striz of raised black scales ; 
reniform incompletely defined by black and with some brown in 
centre, narrow ; medial line blackish, slightly curved and somewhat 
oblique ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved below vein 4, some 
white points beyond it on costa, and a very slightly waved blackish 
line defined on each side by pale reddish brown; a minutely waved 
silvery white subterminal line defined on outer side by blackish ; a 
black terminal line. Hind wing black-brown, the interspaces of basal 
half hyaline ; cilia with fine white line at base and white tips. 
Hab. Crvton, Gampola (Machkuood), 1 ¢ ; Stnearore (Ridley), 
6 $,13 Q type; Bornro, Kuching (Shelfor dl), 19. Exp. 18-238 
millim, 
6423. Lophoptera pheoxista, n. sp. (Plate CLXNXVILII. fig. 30.) 
¢. Head and tegule dark red-brown ; thorax pale red-brown ; 
palpi at base, pectus and legs grey-white, the tibiae blackish at 
base, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown 
with the crest on 38rd segment rufous, the ventral surface whitish. 
Fore wing with the base silvery violaceous grey with a dark 
subbasal striga from costa; the antemedial area olive-yellow with 
a silvery grey streak in cell; antemedial line dark, waved, followed 
by a silvery grey band, then an obliquely curved olive-yellow band 
with tufts of red-brown scales on it representing the claviform and 
orbicular; the outer half of medial area silvery violaceous grey ; 
reniform defined by minute black points, constricted at middle ; 
the terminal area red-brown slightly suffused with silvery grey ; 
postmedial line blackish, minutely waved, erect, another similar line 
beyond it; subterminal line similar but rather more punctiform ; 
cilia dark brown with a leaden grey tinge. Hind wing dark 
brown; the underside grey tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 
striga and postmedial line excurved below costa and above inner 
margin, 
Hab. Cnytoy, Udagama (Pole), 1 g type. Exp. 22 millim. 
6424. Lophoptera plumbeifascia. (Plate CLAXVIII. fig. 31.) 
Gyrtona plumbeifascia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 405 (1894). 
Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the latter tinged with 
leaden grey ; palpi black, white at base; pectus and legs white, 
the fore and mid legs with the base of tibize blackish, the tarsi 
blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey, the crest on third 
segment black, the ventral surface white. Fore wing olive-yellow ; 
a leaden grey and blackish patch at base from costa to vein 1; a 
cabbage black point in submedian fold; a leaden silvery ante- 
medial band with the shght double minutely wavcd black antemedial 
line on it and the tufts of raised black scales representing the 
