LOPHOPTERA. 189 
6428. Lophoptera negretina. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 2.) 
Stictoptera negretina, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 212 (1902). 
@. Head and thorax dark brown tinged with greyish; tegulee 
with black medial line; tarsi ringed with grey; abdomen grey 
banded with fuscous, the crests blackish, the ventral surface 
brownish white. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with blackish, 
the veins streaked with blackish, the basal half of medial area 
suffused with black; subbasal line represented by a slight curved 
dark striga from costa ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform 
and orbicular represented by strive of raised black scales ; medial 
line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then slightly 
angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform incompletely defined by raised 
black scales, its lower extremity rather produced, an oblique striga 
to it from costa: postmedial line double, obliyue from costa to vein 
6, then incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, an oblique line 
beyond it from costa to yein 6; subterminal line indistinct, dark, 
dentate from costa to vein 3; a terminal series of black strie. Hind 
wing fuscous brown, the veins and terminal area rather darker ; 
cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside rather paler, with 
indistinet curved medial and postmedial lines. 
Hab, Assam, Khasis, 1 Q type. Hxp. 32 millim. 
6429. Lophoptera luctuosa. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 3.) 
Stictoptera luctuosa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 212 (1902). 
©, Head and tegule red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; thorax 
brownish grey; tibiz banded with fuscous; tarsi fuscous ringed 
with white; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with rufous. lore 
wing with the basal area grey suffused with reddish brown and 
with the slightly sinuous brown antemedial line near its outer edge ; 
a black streak below base of costa; the rest of wing black-brown 
with aslight greyish gloss; traces of a sinuous blackish medial line ; 
reniform indicated by a few whitish scales on its edges ; postmedial 
line hardly traceable, double, bent outwards below costa, then 
dentate, oblique below vein 4; traces of a double dark dentate sub- 
terminal line with two obliquely placed whitish marks on it below 
costa and one at submedian fold; a terminal series of black striz 
and whitish points at the veins. Hind wing dark red-brown with 
a faint purplish gloss; cilia whitish at tips; the underside paler 
with indistinct curved medial and postmedial lines. 
Hab. Cevton (Mackwood), 1 2 type. Exp. 44 millim, 
6430. Lophoptera quadrinotata. (Plate CLXXIX, fig. 4.) 
Gadirtha quadrinotata, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 162 (1864). 
Stictoptera anthyalus, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 403 (1894); Swinh, 
A.M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 8 (1895). 
Stictoptera paranthyala, Holl. Noy. Zool. vii. p. 565 (1900). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen fuseous mixed with greyish; pectus 
