LOPHOPTEEA. 189 



6428. Lophoptera iiegretina. (Plate C'LXXIX. fig. 2.) 

 Stictoptera negrciina, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 212 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax dark biown tinged with greyish ; tegulfe 

 with black medial line; tarsi ringed with grej^; abdomen grey 

 banded with fuscous, the crests blackish, the ventral surface 

 brownish white. Pore wing grey-brown irrorated with blackish, 

 the veins streaked with blackish, the basal half of medial area 

 suffused with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight curved 

 dark striga from costa ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform 

 and orbiculai- represented by striae of raised black scales ; medial 

 line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then slightly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform incompletely defined by raised 

 black scales, its lower extremity rather produced, an oblique striga 

 to it from costa ; postmedial line double, obliijue from costa to vein 

 6, then incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, an obliiiue line 

 beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; snbterminal line indistinct, dark, 

 dentate from costa to vein 3 ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, the veins and terminal area rather darker; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside rather paler, with 

 indistinct curved medial and postmedial lines. 



Hub. Assam, Khasis, 1 § type. Exji. '62 millim. 



6429. Lophoptera luctuosa. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 3.) 

 Stictoptera luctuosa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 212 (1S02). 



$ , Head and tegulse red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; thorax 

 brownish grey ; tibiae banded with fuscous ; tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with white; abdomen grey dorsally suffused Avith rufous. Fore 

 wing with the basal area grey suffused with reddish brown and 

 with the slightly sinuous brown antemedial line near its outer edge ; 

 a black streak below base of costa; the rest of wing bkck-brown 

 with a slight grejish gloss ; traces of a sinuous blackish medial line ; 

 reniform indicated by a few whitish scales on its edges ; postmedial 

 line hardly traceable, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, oblique below vein 4; traces of a double dark dentate sub- 

 terminal line with two obliquely placed whitish marks on it below 

 costa and one at submedian fold ; a terminal series of black striae 

 and whitish points at the veins. Hind wing daik red-brown with 

 a faint purplish gloss ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside paler 

 with indistinct curved medial and postmedial lines. 



Hab. Ceylon (Mackwood), 1 5 type. E.iy. 44 millim. 



6430. Loplioptera quadrinotata. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Gadirtka quach'inotata, Wlk. Jonrn. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 162 (1864). 

 Stictoptera anthycdus, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 403 (1894); Swinh. 



A. M. N. H. (6) XY. p. 8 (1895). 

 Stictoptera pccranikycdcc, HoU. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 565 (1900). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous mixed with greyish ; pectus 



