LOPHOPTERA, 187 
claviform and orbicular on its outer edge; medial line fine, 
brownish, very slightly sinuous ; reniform represented by four 
points of raised black scales at its angles and a point in centre, 
some leaden silvery above it on costa and on middle of inner 
margin; postmedial line represented by a series of black points 
defined on inner side by leaden silvery below vein 5 and on outer 
by a leaden silvery band except at costa, then by a fine very 
minutely waved brown line with minute black points on it; sub- 
terminal line minutely waved, brown with series of black points 
on it and slightly defined on inner side by leaden silvery ; a series 
of blackish points just before termen. Hind wing brown, the 
terminal area tinged with fuscous; the underside whitish tinged 
with brown, a faint curved postmedial line. 
Hab. S. Anpamans, 1 ¢,1 9 type. Hyvp. 22 millim. 
6425. Lophoptera chalybsa. 
Gyrtona chalybsa, Hmpsn. Ill. Lep. Het, BM. viii. p. 86, pl. 146. 
f. 24 (1891). 
3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; pectus 
whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomen fuscous, the 
crest on 3rd segment black, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 
wing brown suffused with silvery grey leaving a triangular patch 
from medial part of costa to vein 1 browner; subbasal line repre- 
sented by two black striz from costa; the antemedial Jine with 
two black striz from costa, then slight, single; claviform and 
orbicular represented by strize of raised black scales, the reniform 
by a small rufous lunule ; medial line dark, curved, slightly waved ; 
postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards and obsolescent 
below costa, incurved at discal fold, incurved and slightly waved 
below vein 4, another minutely waved blackish line beyond it; a 
minutely waved dark subterminal line; a series of small black- 
brown spots just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown; the 
underside brownish grey with indistinct sinuous medial and 
postmedial lines. 
Hab. Mavras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 ¢ type. Evp. 24 millim, 
6426. Lophoptera ferrinalis. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 32.) 
Evia ferrinalis, Wk. xxvii. 89 (1863). 
2. Palpi, frons, and antenna black-brown ; vertex of head and 
thorax bright rufous; pectus whitish; legs black-brown, the tarsi 
ringed with whitish; abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface 
whitish. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with silvery purple, 
the inner area bright rufous from base of costa to postmedial line, 
with white streak above it at middle and leaving a datk patch at 
base of inner margin; subbasal line represented by two indistinct 
dark strie from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 
minute tufts of raised black scales in and below middle of cell; 
