LOPHOPTEEA, 179 



in, below, and beyond end of cell ; hind wing with curved dark jjost- 

 mcdial line. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing without the whitish streak beyond the costal 

 area. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with diffused white below the costal area. 



Hab. W. China, Kia-ting-fu, 1 c? ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 {O. Tuung), 1 2 , Simla {Harford), 1 c? , Kangra {Dudgeon), 2 tS , 

 Dhavmsalsb {Hockinr/), 5 J, 2 $ ; Sikhim {Moller), 1 $ ; Cbtlon, 

 2 J type; Singapore (Zi^ufZey), 2 cj . iiTi;^^. 30-42 millim. 



6411. Lophoptera methyalea. (Plate CLXXYIII. fig. 19.) 



Siidoptera methyalea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. ^I"r. Mus. ii. jd. 309 (1902). 



Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with some brown and 

 tinged with grey ; pectus grey-white ; legs whitish suffused 

 with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen pale 

 grey, the crests darker, the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing- 

 grey suffused with fuscous and some brown, the basal area suffused 

 with black ; traces of a double waved subbasal line, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, highly waved ; claviform repre- 

 sented by a tuft of black scales ; medial line blackish, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin; reni- 

 form slightly defined by blackish, constricted at middle and 

 extending to submedien fold ; postmedial line double, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 to the reniform, a band of blackish suffusion beyond 

 it except towards costa defined by a sinuous line of raised black 

 scales, then a reddish brown band ; sub terminal line slight, greyish, 

 somewhat dentate with slight dark streaks beyond it in the inter- 

 spaces and more prominent streak below costa ; a terminal series 

 of blackish striae. Hind wing hyaline, the costa, inner margin, and 

 terminal area black, the last with rather irregular inner edge ; cilia 

 brown at base, white at tips. 



Hah. Congo, Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 1 (S type. Exp. 30 millim. 



*6412. Lophoptera semirufa. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



Lophopiera semirufa, Di-uce, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. ined. 



Head and thorax deep rufous ; tarsi dark brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen dark brown with grey segmental rings, the crests 

 on 3rd and 4th segments rufous, the ventral surface white mixed 

 with brown. Fore wing with the basal area deep rufous, its outer 

 edge obliquely curved from costa before middle to inner margin at 

 postmedial line and defined b}' whitish, the terminal area grey 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown and with some deep red-brown 

 suffusion on apical area and from vein 4 to tornus ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, double, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, oblique to median nervure, then angled inwards 



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