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b'\ Forewing without pale streak in lower 



part of cell duplicate/,. 



b\ Forewing with the ground colour greyish. 

 a r \ Forewing with the costal area pale de- 

 fined by brown below albicosta. 



b c \ Forewing with the costal area concolor- 



ous micacea. 



b' 6 , Forewing without dark streaks in the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area flavostigma. 



1895. ClKPHIS 1-ALBUM. 



1895. a. Cirphis albivenata, Swinh. Trans .Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 217, pi. 7, f. 7. 



ft. Head and thorax violaceous grey tinged with red-brown ; palpi fuscous ; 

 sides of frons with black bar ; tegulae with three brown lines ; patagia with a 

 few black scales near upper edge ; mid and hind tibiae and tarsi streaked with 

 black : abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface with ochreous, the abdominal tufts grey and fuscous. Forewing purplish 

 grey, the costal and inner areas irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge brown ; 

 a black streak on base of median nervure and an oblique streak above inner 

 margin before middle ; a brown shade through the cell and thence obliquely to 

 apex, leaving a fine white streak in lower part of cell ; the subcostal nervure 

 and veins arising from it, the median nervure and veins 4*3 streaked with white 

 defined by fine dark streaks, the interspaces with fine streaks, more prominent 

 and blackish above veins 4'3*2 ; an oblique pale fascia from apex to vein 3, 

 the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia inter- 

 sected with white. Hindwing whitish tinged with fuscous, especially on the 

 veins and towards termen ; cilia whitish ; the underside violaceous white, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot, postmedial 

 series of short streaks on the veins, and terminal series of points. 



9 . More tinged with red-brown. 



Habitat.— Sikkim; Assam, Naga Hills ; Bhurma, Bhamo. Exp. 32-34 mill. 



1918. ClBPHIS EUPIPENNIS. 



1926. Cirphis duplicata, Butl. 111. Het. B.M., VH., p. 8 (1889); Hmpsn. 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., V., p., 506, pi. 92, f. 11. 



Lmcania prominens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 339 (nee Wlk.) 

 „ rufula, Hmpsn. Moths Ind., II., p. 278 (1894). 

 1928. Cirphis albicosta, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 338, pi. 37, f. 10. 



Lmcania nigrilineosa, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 103 (1882). 

 1928. a. Cikphis micacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M., VIII., p. 67, pi. 144, f. 8 

 (1891). 



Head and thorax grey-white with a slight purplish tinge ; tegulaa with three 

 brown lines ; abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown, the ventral tufts 

 of male brownish and fuscous. Forewing whitish with a slight purplish tinge ; 

 the veins white defined by fine dark streaks, the interspaces of terminal half 

 also with dark streaks, the median nervure, except toward* base, and veins 



