LOPHOPTERA. 191 
*6432. Lophoptera chalybea. 
Gadirtha chalyhea, Wk. Journ, Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 161 (1864); 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91, pL. iii. f. 9. 
_ Gadirtha polygrapha, Wik. Journ. Linn, Soc., Zool. vii. p. 162 (186). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown, the last with the 
crest on 2nd segment whitish at base. Fore wing red-brown with 
a slight reddish tinge ; a curved subbasal brown striga from costa ; 
antemedial line double filled in with reddish ochreous and defined 
on inner side by reddish ochreous and short black-brown streaks on 
and below costa and on median nervure, curved, minutely waved ; 
a black spot at middle of cell; medial line oblique and slightly 
sinuous from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner 
margin ; reniform rufous slightly defined by black-brown, its lower 
extremity produced ; postmedial line double filled in with rufous, 
highly dentate, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below 
vein 4; subterminal line double filled in with rufous, dentate, 
strongly bidentate inwards below costa; a terminal series of dark 
stri defined by rufous lunules and points at base of cilia. Hind 
wing dark red-brown, the cilia white at tips; the underside with 
indistinct medial and postmedial lines, the latter defined on outer 
side by greyish. 
Hab. Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), type t 2 and type T 3 
polygrapha in Mus. Oxon. Ewp. 48 millim, 
6433. Lophoptera metaphea. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 6.) 
Gadirtha metaphea, W\k. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 163 (1864). 
Stictoptera ferruginea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 5385 (1905), 
¢@. Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen rufous tinged with fuscons, 
the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 
rufous ; a faint double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 
angled inwards below costa; a very indistinct double minutely 
waved antemedial line with some dark points on it; aslight discoidal 
Junule defined by brown; a faint double minutely waved postmedial 
line with some dark points on its outer edge, oblique and slightly 
incurved at discal fold and in submedian interspace ; subterminal 
line indistinct, ochreous, minutely dentate, defined by slight dark 
marks on its inner side below costa and at middle and by a complete 
series on outer; a termiual series of dark strize ; cilia ochreous with 
dark points at extremity of the veins. Hind wing uniform fuscous 
brown; the underside rather paler with traces of curved postmedial 
line and diffused subterminal band. 
Q@. Much darker; fore wing with complete series of dark spots 
before subterminal line. 
Hab. Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 9 ; Puro Laur (Doherty), 
2 g type ferruginca; Puitirprns, Taytai (Belton), 1 2. Lup, 
30 millim. Type + in Mus. Oxon. 
