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pale olive-brown to grey-brown, more or .less thickly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 the veins of costal area defined by fine brown streaks, hardly visible except in 

 the paler specimens, the interspaces also streaked with brown towards apex ; a 

 slight black streak below base of cell ; a slight fuscous shade on each side of 

 median nervure, extending beyond the cell to the triangular brown shade from 

 termen below apex ; the antemedial line represented by obliquely placed black 

 points on costa and below cell ; a small, rather V-shaped white spot with 

 brown centre at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, sometimes with traces of a 

 crenulate line before it ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins, termen and inner area tinged with brown ; the under- 

 side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Madras, Gooty, Nilgiris, Coimbatore. Eorp. 32-88 mill. 



1912. ClRPHIS FRAGILIS. 



1913. Cirphis unipuncta, insert (syns.). 



Spcelotis punctulata, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Ins. "VTI., p. 74 (1852). 

 Leucania adultera, Schaus., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXI., p. 232 (1894), 

 & del. Leucania adusta. 



Larva, Cote's Indian Museum Notes, III., p, 135. 



1"12". Head glabrous, pale red ; body pale yellowish-green ; three dark 

 dorsal lines ; a black lateral stripe with pale yellow line below it and a series 

 of five black spots ; prolegs pale green. Feeds in the heart of the millet 

 stalk and does immense damage to the ripening crop. Pupates in the earth 

 (W. H. Campbell) 



1923. Cirphis corrugata. 



1905. Cirphis denticula. 



1905. a, Cirphis pastea, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., V., p. 550, pi. 96, 

 f. 13 (1905). 



$. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown ; palpi brown- 

 ish at sides ; frons with brown bar ; tegulse with three brown lines ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edges ; tarsi with dark rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 white, dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated with black. Forewing 

 ochreous white irrorated and striated with rufous and dark brown ; some brown 

 suffusion below middle of costa ; orbicular represented by a small round brown 

 spot, the reniform by a large rather diffused lunule ; a diffused brown fascia 

 beyond lower angle of cell connected with a triangular shade from termen 

 below apex ; a curved postmedial series of black points with an ill-defined 

 brown shade beyond them ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous 

 white intersected with brown. Hindwing whitish tinged with brown, especially 

 on terminal area ; cilia white with a brownish line through them ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and terminal series of 

 points. 



Habitat.— Assam, Khasis. Exp. 36 mill, 



