LA.GOPXEEA. 419 



cilia white faintly chequered with brown. Undersido brownish 

 white, the terminal areas broadly suffused with brown. 



Hah. FoKMOSA, Takow {Hohson), 1 § ; Centb. China, Kiukiang 

 (Pratt), 1 c5', 1 $ ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 $, Kwei- 

 chow, 1 § , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ ; Pdnjab, Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 

 1 $ , Kasauli, 1 5 ; Sikhim (MolUr), 1 J , 2 § ; Assam, Khji^is, 1 5 , 

 Dibrugrah (Ward), 1 $ ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 c? ? Ganjam, 1 (^ ; 

 Centr. India, Raipur (BetJiam), 1 $ ; Bomb ax, 1 J , Baiidra 

 (Jayaher), 1 S , Eatuagiri (Jayaher), I $ ; Madeas, Malabar, 1 § , 

 Nilgiris (Hampson), 1$ ; Buema, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 5, Bhamo, 

 1 § , Tenasserim, Beeliug ( Watson), 1 $ ; Singapore (Ridley), 1 $ . 

 ^.1^7. 70-84 millim. 



7531. Lagoptera inversa. 



Ophisma inversa, Wlk. xiv. 1384 (1858). 



Lagoptera bivirgata, Snell. Tijd. v. Eiit. xx.viii. p. 11, pi. 1. ff. 5, 5 a (1885). 



$. Head deep chocolate-brown ; palpi scarlet at base; thorax 

 red-brown ; pectus scarlet ; legs grey-brown, the femora fringed 

 with scarlet hair; abdomen grey-brown. Eore wing red-brown 

 slightly tinged with greyish except beyond the postmedial line and 

 with faint pale stri^, the terminal area purple-grey ; an oblique 

 dark brown subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, very oblique; reniform represcntgd by a minute black spot 

 at lower angle of cell and traces of a dark line on its inner edge ; 

 postmedial line dark brown slightly defined on inner side by grey, 

 very oblique and meeting the dark brown subterminal line at 

 tornus ; a fine brown line just before termen ; cilia dark brown 

 with a greyish line through them. Hind wing deep fuscous brown; 

 a narrow oblique bluish white postmedial baud from vein 6 to 

 above tornus ; the termen greyish ; a fine dark line just before 

 termen from vein 6 to submedian fold ; cilia with white patches 

 below apex and at submedian fold. Underside grey-brown. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing pale ochreous brown to the postmedial line. 



Hah. Penang (Flower), 1 $ ; Singapore (Ridley), 2 5 ; Borneo, 

 Sarawak (Wallace), 2 § type, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 $ ; Philippines ; 

 Dutch IN. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 $ , Arfak Mts,, Ninay Valley 

 (Pratt), 1 d", Kapaur (DoJierty), 1 $ . Exp. 78-86 millim. 



7532. Lagoptera lacteicincta. (Plate CCXIII. fig. 4.) 



Ophiusa lacteicincta, Hmpsn. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. See. iuecl. 



2 • Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; frons with white 

 line above ; antennae with the shaft white above towards base ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous, the tibiae and tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface tinged with ochreous. Pore wing 

 chocolate red-brown tinged with purplish grey to the postmedial 

 line, the terminal area creamy white with a greenish tinge ; the 

 inner margin with a dark streak ; subbasal line dark brown^ oblique, 



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