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4-3 more prominently white ; an oblique dark streak above inner margin 

 before middle ; the antemedial line represented by obliquely placed black points 

 below costa and in submedian fold, and one nearer base on vein 1, the post- 

 medial line by some points bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; an oblique pale fascia from apex to vein 2, the area beyond it rather 

 browner ; a terminal series of black points ; the cilia intersected with white. 

 Hindwing semihyaline white, the veins and terminal area tinged with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a postmedial series of slight streaks and terminal series of points. 



The Ceylon form has the thorax and forewing more suffused with red-brown 

 the latter especially in and below cell and thence obliquely to apex. 



Habitat. — Bombay, Mahableshwar ; Madras, Nilgiris ; Ceylon, Dichoya. 

 Exp. 30 mill. 



1928. b. Cirphis flavostigma, Brem. Lep. Ost. Sib., p. 52, pi. 5, f . n 

 (1864) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 193. 



Leucania singularis, Butl. A.M. N. H. (5), 1 p. 80 (1878)- id 111 

 Het. B. M. II., p. 22, pi. 28, f. 11. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with fuscous • 

 some black scales near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous dorsallv 

 tinged with fuscous, the ventral tufts of male black. Forewing pale ochreous 

 more or less tinged with rufous, especially in, below, and beyond end of cell 

 and irrorated with black ; a black point at base ; an antemedial series of black 

 points connected by an obsolescent dentate line, oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform indistinct 

 yellowish, the latter with black point in lower angle of cell, and whitish 

 streak on extremity of median nervure, some fuscous suffusion above and 

 below extremity of median nervure, thence curved upwards to termen below 

 apex ; a postmedial series of black points connected by a crenulate brownish 

 line, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; traces of a sub- 

 terminal line excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing, ochreous yellow suffused 

 with fuscous except on costal area ; the underside glossy yellowish white 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point, postmedial 

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



The typical form from the Amur has the ground colour of forewing white 

 the markings more ferruginous and contrasting, hindwing with more whitish 

 on costal and inner areas. 



Habitat. — Amurland ; Japan ; Corea; C. China; Kashmir Goorais 

 Valley. Exp. 36-42 mill. 



6 1 . Abdomen of male normal. 



a a . Forewing of male on underside with fringes of long hair and scales 

 on vein 1. 

 1933. Cirphis tangala. 



& 2 . Forewing of male on underside with fringe of hair and scales on 

 vein 1 



