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Leuoania nigrofasciata, Hmpsn. Moths. Ind., II., p. 279 (1894). 

 „ rhodocomma Piing. Iris., XIII., p. 12Q, (1900). 

 Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; Asia Minor ; W. Siberia ; W. Turkistan ; 

 Mongolia ; Tibet ; E. Siberia ; Ponjab, Kulu. 

 Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep., p. 69 ; Barrett. Lep. Brit., V., p. 163, pi. 203, 3. 

 Greyish ochreous to reddish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale or 

 whitish, edged with dark brown and with a brown line between them ; lateral 

 and spiracular lines pale ochreous separated by a dark brown space ; head 

 brown marked with blackish. Food plants : Grasses, 8-4. 



1927. a. Cirphis bifasciata, Moore P. Z. S. 1888, p. 410 ; Butl. Ill Het. 

 B. M., VII., p. 51, pi. 126, f. 13. 



$ , Head and thorax ochreous white ,• tegulae tinged with purplish pink 

 and with two slight dark lines ; palpi, pectus and legs tinged with pink ; 

 abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally with pink. Forewing 

 rufous, the costal area pale ochreous to middle, the inner area to near tornus ; 

 a slight whitish streak on median nervure from before middle, the veins 

 beyond the cell slightly streaked with white ; a black point in lower angle of 

 cell, a more or less distinct postmedial series of points ; a slight triangular dark 

 shade from termen below apex , cilia pink. Hindwing ochreous whitish tinged 

 with fuscous, especially towards termen ; cilia pinkish at base. Underside of 

 forewing with the cell and area below and beyond it suffused with fuscous. 

 Habitat. — Punjab, Dharmsala. Exp, 36 mill. 



1927. 6. Cirphis :roseilinea ; Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. VI., p. 179, 



(1862) ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M., V, 

 p. 523, pi. 92, f. 26. 

 Leucania simillima, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., VI., p. 179 (1862). 

 Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown and tinged with purplish 

 red ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrofated with 

 black ; the clasps of male with thick tufts of hair. Forewing ochreous 

 white tinged with vinous red, the costa irrorated with black ; the veins white, 

 defined by purple-brown streaks ; the interspaces also streaked with purple- 

 brown ; a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak above 

 inner margin before middle ; a brown shade below median nervure ; a 

 black point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a pale oblique fascia 

 from apex defined by brown above and below by a triangular brown shade from 

 termen below apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing ochreous 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, the termen 

 sometimes with series of black points. 



Habitat. — N. China ; Madras ; Travancore, Pirmad ; Ceylon, Kandy ; 

 Singapore ; Borneo. Exp. 30-34 mill. 

 1931. Cirphis polemusa. 



1903. Cirphis abdominalis, insert (syn.) Leucania moorei, Swinh. A. M. N, 

 H. (7)X.,p. 50(1902). 



