LOPHOPTEPvA. 191 



*6432. Lophoptera chalybea. 



Gadirtha cTialyhea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 161 (1864) ; 



Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 91, pi. iii. f. 9. 

 Gadirtha poly grapha, Wlk. Jourii. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 162 (1861). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown, the last with the 

 crest on 2nd segment whitish at base. Fore wing red-brown with 

 a slight reddish tinge ; a curved snbbasal brown striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with reddish ochreous and defined 

 on inner side by reddish ochreous and short black-brown streaks on 

 and below costa and on median nervure, curved, minutely waved; 

 a black spot at middle of cell ; medial line oblique and slightly 

 sinuous from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner 

 margin ; reniform rufous slightly defined by black-brown, its lower 

 extremity produced ; postmedial line double filled in with rufous, 

 highly dentate, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line double filled in with rufous, dentate, 

 strongly bidentate inwards below costa ; a terminal series of dark 

 striae defined by rufous lunulas and points at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing dark red-brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside with 

 indistinct medial and postmedial lines, the latter defined on outer 

 side by greyish. 



Bah. Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), type t $ and type t S 

 2)oh/graj)ha in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 48 millim. 



6433. Lophoptera metaphaea. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 6.) 



Gadirtha mefapkcsa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 163 (1864). 

 Sticioptera ferruginea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) svi. p. 635 (1905). 



(S . Head and thorax rafous ; abdomen rufous tinged with fuscous, 

 the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 rufous ; a faint double snbbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 angled inwards below costa ; a very indistinct double minutely 

 waved antemedial line with some dark points on it ; a slight discoidal 

 lunule defined by brown ; a faint double minutely waved postmedial 

 line with some dark points on its outer edge, oblique and slightly 

 incurved at discal fold and in submedian interspace ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, ochreous, minutely dentate, defined by slight dark 

 marks on its inner side below costa and at middle and by a complete 

 series on outer ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia ochreous with 

 dark points at extremity of the veins. Hind wing uniform fuscous 

 brown ; the underside rather paler with traces of curved postmedial 

 line and diffused subterminal band. 



5 . Much darker ; fore wing with complete series of dark spots 

 before subterminal line. 



Hah. BoKNEO, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 5 ; Ptjlo Latjt {Doherty), 

 2 c? type ferruginea ; Philippines, Taytai (Beiton), 1 $ . Exp. 

 30 millim. Type f in Mus. Oxon. 



