420 jsrocTuiDjE. 



from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line dark brown, very 

 oblique ; a dark point in middle of cell ; two small whitish discoidal 

 spots defined by brown, the upper spot minute ; postmedial line 

 dark brown, very oblique, very slightly excurved below costa ; the 

 postmedial area with slight dark streaks on the veins, a faint 

 reddish patch below costa and slight ochreous points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line defining the pale terminal area, slightly incurved, a 

 diffused slightly waved brownish line beyond it ; an indistinct 

 crenulate line just before termen and a fine terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish brown, the termen and cilia except towards torniis 

 creamy white. Underside pale grey-brown tinged with ochreous 

 towards base, cilia pale ochreous. 



Hah. Assam, Shillong (Raivlings), 1 5 type. E;q). 78 millim. 



7533. Lagoptera occidens, n. sp. (Plate CCXIII. fig. 5.) 



5 . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and. 

 abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown; a curved brown 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, oblique, expanding into a slight spot at costa ; an oblique 

 brown medial line from costa to lower angle of cell, then very faint 

 and incurved ; postmedial lino brown defined on outer side by 

 white, oblique and ending near tornus ; an incurved brown line 

 from apex to tornus, the area beyond it rather paler ; a series of 

 dark points just before termen ; cilia with a fine brown line near 

 base. Hind wing grey-brown ; a faint narrow oblique paler band 

 from middle of costa to above tornus ; a fuscous black patch on 

 terminal area from apex to vein 2 with a slight pale bar from it to 

 tornus ; the termen and cilia whitish fi'om below apex to submedian 

 fold with some minute black points just before termen. Underside 

 grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; fore wing with dark 

 discoidal bar, faint postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, blackish subtermiual shade, and the termen white except 

 towards tornus ; hind wing with dark discoidal striga, curved 

 medial and postmedial lines, and a subterminal shade. 



Hub. Sierra Leone (Dudgeon), 1 $ ; Gold Coast, Kumasi 

 ( Whiteside), 1 $ , Obuassi {Bergman), 1 5 type. E.vj). 58 millim. 



7534. Lagoptera certior. (Plate CCXIII. fig. 7.) 



Ophisma certior, Wlk. xiv^. 1381 (1858); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 496. 

 OpMsma contenta, Wlk. xiv. 1381 (1858). 

 Ophisma siamica, Wlk. xxxiii. 957 (1865), 



2 . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; antennae with the shaft 

 Avhite in front towards base ; pectus whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 legs greyish brown ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown slightly tinged 

 with whitish to the postmedial line, then brighter red-brown ; an 

 indistinct curved red-brown subbasal line from costa to median 



