188 ■ NocruiD.T;. 



reniform slightly defined bj^ raised black scales ; a slight medial 

 dark bar from costa ; postmcdiul line double, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards at discal 

 iuld, incurved below vein 4 and bent outwards to inner margin, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish, 

 angled outwards at veins 7, 6, then bent inwards, oblique to vein 3, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of black strife with a rufous and 

 yellow triangular mark before it below vein 3 with yellow stnie 

 above and below it ; cilia chequered with white at tips. Hind 

 wing black-brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside with faint 

 diffused pale postmedial band. 



Bah. 13oRNEO, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 (5 type. Exp. 32 millim, 



*6427. Loplioptera stipata. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Plusia stipata, Wlk. Jourii. Liiin. Soc, ZuoJ. vii. p. 70(1864;; SwinLoe, 

 Cat. Heb. Mus. Oxou. ii. p. 37, pi. 1. f. 15. 



5 . Head and thorax grey-white ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 pectus white ; legs brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white dorsally sutiused with brown except at base, the crests dark 

 brown at tips. Fore wing whitish mostly suflPu.sed with red-brown 

 and irrorated in parts with black ; a subbasal white spot on costa 

 crossed, by a red-brown line and with black points before, beyond, 

 and below it; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with white, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, with small black spot 

 before it above vein 1 and some white beyond it from cell to inner 

 margin ; claviform represented by an oblique black striga of raised 

 scales at its extremity : orbicular a small round white spot defined 

 by blown and with raised tuft of black scales beyond it above 

 median nervure ; reniform represented by an oldique black line 

 with diffused whitish patch beyond it ; a medial brown striga 

 from costa and double sinuous line filled in Avith white from cell 

 to inner margin, with tuft of black scales beyond it on vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on inner side by white and on outer 

 side also at costa, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then 

 strongly bent outwards, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa and the veins below costa and 

 from lower angle of cell to the line streaked with white, a tuft of 

 raised black scales beyond it above vein 1 ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by red-brown suffusion and sinuous from 

 costa to vein 4, then obsolete ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules defined on inner side by a crenulate white line ; cilia rufous. 

 Hind wing semihyaline suffused with browai, the terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; cilia with whitish lines at base and tips ; the 

 underside white tinged with rufous, the veins and terminal area 

 brown. 



Bab. BoENEO, Sarawak (IVaUace), type f $ in Ifus. Oxon. 

 Exj^. 30 millim. 



