178 NOCTUID^. 



the cell and streak below middle of veiu 1 ; cilia white with some 

 brown at base. 



Hah. Madras, Cuddapah, Jaminalamaduga {Camplell), 1 S ; 

 Ceylon, Kandy {Meade- Waldo), 1 5 ; Australia, 1 <5 type vittigtra, 

 Townsville (Dodd), 1 $ . E^vj). 36-40 millim. 



6409. Lophoptera aleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some ochreons ; 

 pectus whitish ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey. Fovo 

 wing violaceous grey suffused with brown, the costal area dark 

 brown, its lower edge oblique from postmedial line to apex; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, hardly traceable on the dark costal area; 

 medial line dark, oblique from costato submedian fold, then inwardly 

 oblique; reniform dark brown faintly defined by blackish points, 

 conjoined to the dark costal area ; postmedial line double, slightly 

 angled inwards below costa, then strongly bent outwards, then 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa; two dark dentate subterminal lines defined on inner side by 

 whitish lunules ; a terminal series of dark striae. Hind Aving black- 

 brown with opalescent hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond the 

 cell ; cilia brown at base, white at tips. 



Hah. Queensland, Morctou Bay {Gihbons), 1 c? type. E.rji. 

 38 millim. 



6410, Lophoptera costata. 



Lopho2}tera costaia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 123, pi. 159. f. 8 (1885) ; 

 iluipsn. Motlis Iiid. ii. p. 403. 



Head, tegulae, and prothorax red-brown mixed with blackish, the 

 thorax grey pencilled with black ; palpi blackish ; tegulse with 

 blackish medial line ; pectus whitish mixed with brown ; legs 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen fuscous brown 

 with dorsal series of whitish and black bars. Fore wing lilacinc- 

 grey pencilled with dark brown, the costal area dark red-brown, 

 expanding between ante- and postmedial lines, then oblique to apex, 

 defined below by a yellowish white stieak to the postmedial line ; 

 antemedial line double, brown, waved, obsolete on costal half; clavi- 

 form represented by a slight tuft of blackish scales at its extremity, 

 the orbicular by a slight projection from the dark costal area; 

 reniform with its loWer part incomi)letely defined by black-brown ; 

 medial line brown, sinuous, obsolete on the dark costal area ; post- 

 medial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa; two dark dentat;e subterminal lines defined on inner side 

 by whitish ; a terminal series of dark striae defined on inner side by 

 whitish ; cilia chequered with grey at tips. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the interspaces in, below, and beyond the cell with semihyaline 

 streaks; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with pale streaks 



