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1903. a. Ciephis lineatipes, Moore, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 335. Hmpsn. Cat. 



Lep. Phal. B. M., V., p. 525, pi. 92, f. 30. 

 Leucania percisa , Moore P. Z. S. 1888, p. 410. 

 Head and thorax pale ochreous brown, head browner ; tegulse with two dark 

 lines ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous. Forewing pale brownish 

 ochreous, sometimes tinged with purplish pink and irr orated with fuscous ; the 

 veins with slight whitish streaks defined by fine brown lines, median nervure 

 and vein 4 with stronger white streaks, the former defined below by a brown 

 fascia ; a triangular brown shade from termen below apex ; a black point in 

 lower angle of cell ; a curved postmedial series of black points on the veins and 

 a terminal series. Hindwing whitish tinged with brown, especially on the veins 

 and terminal half ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fusoous, some black points on termen. 

 Habitat. — Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, Simla, Dharmsala ; Assam, Khasis. 

 Exp. 34-38 mill. 



1900. ClEPHIS COMPTA. 



1900. a. Ciephis megapeoctis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal, B. M., V.,p. 532, 

 pi. 93, f . 10 (1905). 



$ Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulse with two black lines and black tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edges ; legs irrorated with black, mid tibise with two black 

 streaks, hind tibiaa with one, spurs banded with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 white, a sublateral series of small black spots, the Ventral surface irrorated with 

 black. Forewing ochreous white, the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated 

 with black ; the veins whi'>e defined by fine fuscous streaks, the inter spaces of 

 terminal area also streaked with fuscous ; traces of an antemedial series of 

 points oblique from costa to the submedian fold, where there is a more pro- 

 minent point, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

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

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, partially connected by a 

 crenulate line ; a very slight triangular fuscous shade from termen below apex ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hindwing white, the veins and termen 

 tinged with brown, the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 black, a postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins and a terminal series 

 of points from apex to vein 2. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haputale, Kandy. Exp. 30 mill. 



1904. ClBPHIS SINTJOSA. 



1937. Ciephis ibeegttlaeirs insert (syns.) 



Leucania ccenosa, Snell. Tijd. v., Ent. XX., p. 24, pi. 2, f. 13 (1877). 

 „ sepulchralis, Lucas, P. Roy. Soc. Queensl. XV., p. 149 (1900). 

 1937. a. Ciephis albistigma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 337, pi. 37, f . 9 ; 



Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., Y., p. 543, pi. 93, f. 33. 

 Head and thorax grey to pale olive-brown mixed with dark brown ; tegulas 

 with two dark lines ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Forewing 



