. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. >32 N0CTUIBJ5. (Green), 3 S\ Bukma, Bhamo, 2 S type nefasta ; Singapoee {Eu/ley), 1 J; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 J. ^'^'p• 26-32 millim. 1916. Cirphis megaproctis, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 10.) S - Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi hlackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with two black lines and black tips ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; legs irrorated with black, mid tibife with two black streaks, hind tibite with one, spurs banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white, a sublateral ser
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. >32 N0CTUIBJ5. (Green), 3 S\ Bukma, Bhamo, 2 S type nefasta ; Singapoee {Eu/ley), 1 J; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 J. ^'^'p• 26-32 millim. 1916. Cirphis megaproctis, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 10.) S - Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi hlackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with two black lines and black tips ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; legs irrorated with black, mid tibife with two black streaks, hind tibite with one, spurs banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white, a sublateral series of small black spots, the ventral surface irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous white, the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated with black; the veins white defined by fine fuscous streaks, the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with fuscous; traces of an antemedial series of points oblique from costa to the submedian fold, where there is a more prominent point, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; a black point in lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, partially connected by a crenulate line ; a very slight triangular fuscous shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged-Avith brown ; the underside with Ihe costal area slightly irrorated with black, a postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins and a terminal series of points from apex to vein 2. Bah. Ceylon, Haputale (Maclivood), 1 S type, Kandy {E. E. Green), 1 c5' • B^i'j). 30 millim. 1917. Cirphis juncicola. Lencavia pmcicola, Guen. Noct. i. p. S3 (18r)2); Smith, Cat. Noot. N. Am. p. ; Helio2)hila adjiita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 158 (1874). Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi with some black at sides: frons rufous below; tegnlre with two pur])lish-fuscous lines with reddish behind them, the thoracic cr
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