BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., P.E.S. 915 



94. Hyp. crenaria, Ga. 



( Hypochromci, crenaria, Gii. ix, 278, Walk. 432 ; H. distenta, 

 Walk. 434; B. stiblimbata, But!., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, 

 232 ; H. pauUnaria, Pas., Jalirb. Nass. Ver. 1885, 47, pi. I. 1.). 



9. 42 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax pale whitish-ocbreous, 

 face with a black bar. Palpi white, terminal joint long, slender, 

 ochreous-tinged. Abdomen white, with a few whitish ochreous 

 scales. Legs dark grey ringed with white (posterior pair broken). 

 Forewings broad, costa slightly arched, hindmargin rounded, 

 waved, somewhat oblique ; 6 separate, 11 anastomosing with 10 ; 

 white, irrorated with pale ochreous ; first line slender, ochreous, 

 from a grey mark on costa at ;| to |^ of inner margin, thrice 

 angularly dentate ; a long transverse linear grey or ocjireous discal 

 spot ; second line slender, grey, mixed with ferruginous-reddish, 

 more ochreous towards inner margin, from § of costa to f of inner 

 margin, waved-dentate, tolerably evenly curved ; space between 

 second line and hindmargin more densely irrorated with ochreous 

 and some reddish scales, sometimes greyer towards costa, except a 

 cloudy dentate whitish subterminal line ; a fine ferruginous 

 sometimes interrupted hindmarginal line, tending to form dots 

 with one or two black scales between veins : cilia white, with 

 faint very pale ochreous-greyish bars. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded, crenulate, inner margin long ; 6 and 7 separate ; 

 colour and markings as in forewings, but first line absent, discal 

 spot ochreous, indistinct, second line more ferruginous, cilia not 

 barred. Forewings beneath white, costa yellowish towards base ; 

 a narrow transverse black discal spot ; a broad blackish subter- 

 minal band, connected with hindmargin above middle by an 

 oblong patch. Hindwings beneath white, with subterminal band 

 as in foi'ewings. 



Rockhampton, Queensland ; two specimens. Occurs also in 

 New Guinea and the adjoining islands, Ceylon, and India. 



