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$. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with ochreous ; tegula? with traces 

 of three lines ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous. Forewing orange-yellow, suffused with purple- 

 red except below cell near base, in end of cell, on inner margin and terminal 

 area ; the costal area white sparsely irrorated with black, and with greyish 

 fuscous suffusion below it ; median nervure streaked with greyish fuscous, its 

 extremity with white, a greyish fuscous patch beyond the cell between veins 

 5 and 3 ; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa, the antemedial 

 line by an obscure series of points oblique from costa to submedian fold 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 ; a postmedial series of points bent outwards 

 below costa, and oblique below vein 4, where it is met by an oblique shade 

 from termen below apex ; the veins of terminal area with slight pale streaks ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hindwing ochreous suffused with fuscous 

 brown, the termen tinged with pink ; cilia ochreous ; the underside pale 

 ochreous, the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish pink and irrorated 

 with fuscous, a discoidal spot and postmedial and terminal series of points. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 34 mill. 



1894. d. Cirphis eormosana, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 675 ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. B. M., V., p. 518, pi. 92, f. 20. 

 Leucania adusta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 335. 



„ semicana, Pag, Zoologica, XII,, p. 75, pi. ii, f. 37 (1900). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tegulee with slight dark 

 tips ; abdomen pale brownish, the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing ochreous 

 suffused in parts with flesh colour and sparsely irrorated with black ; the 

 veins defined by slight fuscous streaks, the interspaces of terminal half also 

 streaked with fuscous ; traces of an antemedial series of black points oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; traces of 

 ochreous orbicular and reniform stigmata, the latter with black point in lower 

 part and short yellow streak below it on extremity of median nervure ; a 

 postmedial series of black points bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4, connected by traces of a highly crenulated line ; an oblique dark shade 

 from termen below apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing whitish, 

 the veins and terminal half suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with 

 black, a postmedial series of short black streaks on the veins and series of 

 black points on apical half of termen. 



Habitat. — Formosa ; Punjab, Manpuri ; Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis ; Travan- 

 core, Pirmad ; Ceylon, Pundaloya, W. Haputale ; Selangore ; Borneo ; N. 

 Guinea, Bismarck Arch. Exp. 36 mill. 



1927. Cirphis comma, Linn, Faun. Suec. II., p. 316,(1861) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 

 VII., p. 83, pi. 106, f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust 

 III., p. 73 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal., p. 192. 

 Noctna turbida, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 617 (1827). 

 „ congener Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 618 (1827). 



