LOPHOPTEEA. 187 



claviform and orbicular on its outer edge ; medial line fine, 

 brownish, very slightly sinuous ; reniform represented by four 

 points of raised black scales at its angles and a point in centre, 

 some leaden silvery above it on costa and on middle of inner 

 margin; postmedial line represented by a series of black points 

 defined on inner side by leaden silvery below vein 5 and on outer 

 by a leaden silvery band except at costa, then by a tine vei-y 

 minutely waved brown line with minute black points on it ; sub- 

 terminal line minutely waved, brown with series of black points 

 on it and slightly defined on inner side by leaden silvery ; a series 

 of blackish points just before termen. Hind wing brown, the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous; the underside whitish tinged 

 with brown, a faint curved postmedial line. 



Hub. S. Andamans, 1 cJ , 1 $ type. Exp. 22 milliin. 



6425. Lophoptera chalybsa. 



Gyrtona clialyh&a, Huipsn. 111. Lep. Ilet. B.M. viii. p. 86, pi. 146. 

 f. 2i (1891). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus 

 whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 crest on 3rd segment black, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing brown suffused with silvery grey leaving a triangular patch 

 from medial part of costa to vein 1 browner ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by two black striae from costa ; the antemedial line with 

 two black striae from costa, then slight, single ; claviform and 

 orbicular represented by striae of raised black scales, the reniform 

 by a small rufous lunule ; medial line dark, curved, slightly waved ; 

 postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards and obsolescent 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold, incurved and slightly waved 

 below vein 4, another minutely waved blackish line beyond it ; a 

 minutely waved dark sub terminal line ; a series of small black- 

 brown spots just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the 

 underside brownish grej' with indistinct sinuous medial and 

 j)ostmedial lines. 



Uah. Madras, Mlgiris {Hcanpson), 1 S type. E.vp. 24 millim. 



6426. Lophoptera ferrinalis. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 32.) 



Evia ferrinalis, Wlk. xxvii. 89 (186-3). 



5 . Palpi, frons, and antenncc black-brown ; vertex of head and 

 thorax bright rufous; pectus whitish ; legs black-brown, the tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with silvery purple, 

 the inner area bright rufous from base of costa to postmedial line, 

 with white streak above it at middle and leaving a dark patch at 

 base of inner margin ; subbasal line represented by two indistinct 

 dark striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 

 minute tufts of raised black scales in and below middle of cell ; 



