1S4 NOCXUID-Ti;. 



medial area, the two autemcdial lines black on inner half, forming 

 a somewhat conical mark. 



Hob. Formosa, Takow (liohson), 1 5 ; Penang (S. S. Flower), 

 1 $ ; Perak, Gopiug- {Kiinsller) ; Singapore {liidhij), 1 c? , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 24-23 millim. 



6419. Lophoptera huma. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 2G.) 

 Stictoptera Imnna, Swiiih. Fascic. Malay. Zool. i. p. 75 (1903). 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with fiiscous black ; palpi 

 rnfous ringed with black ; pectus reddish ochreous, the tibise and 

 tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen fuscous with dorsal series of 

 black bars on pale triangular patches, the ventral surface white. 

 Pore wing brown suffused with silvery purple ; a yellowish white 

 patch on antemedial costal area from near base to antemedial line 

 enclosing a dark spot on costa, the medial area beyond and below 

 the cell to vein 1 yellowish v^'hite ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 minutely waved, filled in with whitish below the yellow patch; 

 stria3 formed of raised black scales in and beloAv middle of cell and 

 above inner margin ; a slightly sinuous medial line ; reniform with 

 white anuulus defined by black points ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa and a sinuous line foimcd by tufts of raised 

 Wack scales defined on inner side by whitish ; subterminal line 

 white, slightly waved, bent inwards at vein 3 ; a terminal series 

 of black stria3 defined on inner side by white ; a fine white line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing black-brown, the interspaces in, below, 

 and beyond the cell hyaline, the inner area with hyaline streaks 

 above and below vein 1 to beyond middle ; cilia with a fine white 

 line at base and white tips. 



Hah. Si AM, Biserat, 1 $ type ; Singapoee {Ridley), 1 $ . Exp. 20- 

 22 millim. 



G420. Lophoptera plmnbeola, n. n. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Gyrtona chalyhea, Biitl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 163 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 403 (nee Wlk. 1864). 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown ; pectus greyish ; tarsi 

 slightly ringed with white ; abdomen brown tinged Avith grey, the 

 vtntral surface white irrorated with brown. Pore wing dark 

 reddish brown with a jjurplish grey gloss ; subbasal line indistinct, 

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

 double, waved ; claviform and orbicular represented by minute 

 rufous spots with tufts of raised scales on their outer edges ; 

 reniform defined by tufts of raised black scales and with rufous 

 spot in centre; medial line dark, excurved in and below cell; 



