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02. Hypochroma leprosa spec, now 



Forewing : moss-green, covered with dark speckling, which is confluent ami 

 forms a kind of shade before first and after outer line, marked with ferruginous 

 between the veins ; lines black ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of 

 inner margin, roundly outcurved above and below median vein and angled below 

 vein 1 ; outer line lunnlate-dentate, from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner 

 margin, vertical to vein 4, then oblique, approaching first line on inner margin ; 

 cell-mark black, linear, oblique ; both lines separated from the shade by a narrow 

 space of nnspeekled green ; snbmarginal line a row of green dark-pointed lunnles ; 

 marginal spots black; fringe green; ferruginous marks in outer shade elongate, 

 absent between 3 and 4, and expanded into a blotch between 1 and 2. 



Hindi/ring : without the shades ; the tufts on inner margin and towards base 

 green and large. 



Underside of forewing dull olive tinged with red, of hindwing dull dirty 

 yellow ; a diffuse obscure blackish snbmarginal cloud on both wings, and black 

 cell-spot in forewing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen moss-green and black ; dorsum with pairs of dark 

 6pots ; abdomen beneath and legs dull olive-yellowish ; pectus reddish-tinged ; 

 foretarsi black and ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : S 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm. 



2 <?cJ, 1 ?. 



The ¥ is more strongly marked and dusted with black throughout ; the 

 shoulders and tufts of hindwing black ; costal half of central area of hindwing 

 pinkish-ockreons, undusted. 



63. Hypochroma lichenosa spec. nov. 



Forewing : moss-green, like leprosa, but with less dark dusting, and the lines 

 more obscure ; the dark scales before inner and beyond outer line mixed with pink ; 

 cell-spot dark with a few pink scales ; submarginal line marked mainly by dark 

 patches on the two folds. 



Hindwing: similar; the tufts green and prominent. 



Underside of both wings dull white, greenish towards outer margin ; costa 

 of forewing pinkish ; base and inner margin of hindwing yellow ; both wings 

 with black snbmarginal fascia, the margin in forewing speckled ; cell-spot of 

 forewing black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen moss-green slightly dark-speckled ; abdomen 

 with small tufts injpairs ; anal segment and underneath and legs pale ochreous ; 

 foretibiae green, black-mottled. 



Expanse of wings : S 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm. 



3 c?c?, 1 ¥. 



In the ? the basal half of hindwing is darker, more speckled ; the submarginal 

 line of forewing plainer, whitish, and the whole central area of forewing whiter, 

 with less dark scaling. 



Both this and leprosa belong to the group containing muscosaria Guen. and 

 hgpochromaria Guen. from Australia; they are distinguished from each other by 

 the undersides. 



