186 NocruiDJE. 



from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, minutely waved ; 

 claviform and orbicular represented by strise of raised black scales ; 

 reniform incompletely defined by black and with some brown in 

 centre, narrow ; medial line blackish, slightly curved and somewhat 

 oblique ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved below vein 4, some 

 wliite points beyond it on costa, and a very slightly waved blackish 

 line defined on each side by pale reddish brown ; a minutely waved 

 silvery white subterminal line defined on outer side by blackish ; a 

 black terminal line. Hind wing black-brown, the interspaces of basal 

 lialf hyaline ; cilia with fine white line at base and white tips. 



Hah. Ceylon, Giimpola (MacJcuood), 1 S ; Singapore (Eidlei/), 

 6 d , 13 $ type ; Borneo, Kuching {Shelford), 1 $ . Exjo. 18-28 

 millim. 



6423. Lophoptera phseoxista, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 30.) 



c^ . Head and tegulse dark red -brown ; thorax pale red-brown; 

 palpi at base, pectus and legs grey-white, the tibiae blackish at 

 base, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with the crest on 3rd segment rufous, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing with the base silvery violaceous grey with a dark 

 subbasal striga from costa ; the antemedial area olive-yellow wdth 

 a silvery grey streak in cell ; antemedial line dark, waved, followed 

 by a silverj' grej' band, then an obliquely curved olive-yellow band 

 with tufts of red-brown scales on it representing the claviform and 

 orbicular ; the outer half of medial area silvery violaceous grey ; 

 reniform defined by minute black points, constricted at middle ; 

 the terminal area red-brown slightly suffused with silvery grey ; 

 postmedial line blackish, minutely waved, erect, another similar line 

 beyond it; subterminal line similar but rather more punctiforra ; 

 cilia dark browai with a leaden grey tinge. Hind wing dark 

 brown ; the underside grey tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 

 striga and postmedial line excurved below costa and above inner 

 margin. 



Hub. Ceylojt, IFdagama (Pole), 1 J type. Exp. 22 millim. 



6424. Lophoptera pluinl)eifascia. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Gyrtona plumbeifascia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 405 (1894). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the latter tinged with 

 leaden grey ; palpi black, wliite at base ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore and mid legs with the base of tibiae blackish, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey, the crest on third 

 segment black, the ventral surface white. Pore wnng olive-yellow; 

 a leaden grey and blackish patch at base from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 subbasal black point in submedian fold ; a leaden silvery ante- 

 medial band with the slight double minutely waved black antemedial 

 line on it and the tufts of raised black scales representing the 



