182 KOCTUIDJE. 



fold; reniform moderate, slightly defined by black; postmedial 

 line double, minntelj waved, formed of striie of raised blacli scales, 

 beut outwards below eosta and incurved below vein 3 ; a similar 

 single line beyond it defined by ochreous on inner side ; a fine pale 

 Bubterminal line, dentate at veins 6, 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing with the interspaces 

 of basal half hyaline, the veins and terminal half fuscous; cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside greyer. 



Hdh. Punjab, Manpuri, 1 S ; Bombay, 1 $ ; Madras, Cuddapah 

 (CampheU), 1 $ type; Ceylon, Madulsima (Mackwood), 1 d, 

 Dilyatalawa {Machivood), 1 5 . Exp. 24-26 millim. 



6416. Lophoptera phaeobasis. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 23.) 

 Stictoptera pJueobasis, Hmpsu. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 534 (1905). 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grey and 

 black ; pectus and femora whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous with slight whitish segmental lines, a 

 blackish crest on 4th segment, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing reddish brown, the basal half suffused with black, its outer 

 edge obliquely curved ; subbasal line represented by two slight 

 strise from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, defined by 

 whitish on inner side towards inner margin, some striae of raised 

 black scales beyond it in and below cell ; a medial line bounding 

 the dark area, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; reniform 

 incompletely defined by black; postmedial line double, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at diseal fold and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line strongly dentate, forming a dark mark at costa 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; a minutely waved dark line just before 

 termen on which there is a series of black strise. Hind wing 

 fuscous with hyaline streaks in the interspaces in, below, and 

 beyond the cell and on middle of inner area ; the underside with 

 the inner area whitisb. 



Bah. Pekak, Goping (KUnstler), 1 $ type. Exj). 32 millim. 



6417. Lophoptera illucida. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 24.) 



Stictoptera illucida, Wlk. xxxiii. 918 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 403. 



Head and thorax brown tinged with grey ; pectus whitish ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral 

 suiface whitish. Pore wing brown tinged with grey; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, curved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, minutely waved, with slight tufts of black scales on 

 its outer edge at diseal and submedian folds ; medial line oblique 

 from costa to diseal fold, then incurved and angled outwards at 

 vein 1 ; reniform with slight whitish annulus defined by black ; 



