HYPOPYRIDJE. 149 



Family HYPOPYRIDiE. 



Imago of moderate size or soraewliut large. "Wings rather broad, alike in 

 mai'kings, their underside red or ochreous, with black bands : forevving acute, and 

 often falcate at the apex. Body robust ; palpi most often long, more or less ascend- 

 ing; antennas long, serrate or simple. {Gueiice.) 



Genus SPIRAMA. 



Spirama, Giienee, Noct. iii. p. 194 (1852). 



Spiramin, Walker, Catal Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1318 (1858). 



Speiredonia (part), Hiihner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 272. 



"Wings moderately broad, velvety : forewing elongated, triangular, costa arched 

 towards the end, apex angular, exterior margin very slightly oblique and convex ; 

 cell extending nearly half the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end 

 of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third at one-sixth from base of second, and 

 fourth beyond one-half from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and touching 

 third close to its base ; discocellular concave in the middle, bent near each end, 

 radials from the angles ; middle median from angle near end of the cell, lower at two- 

 fifths ; submedian slightly recurved from the base : hindwing short, exterior margin 

 convex ; cell less than one-third the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of 

 the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal vein straight ; abdominal margin 

 in male longitudinally folded between the submedian and internal vein, the fold 

 containing a glandular tuft of fine long erectile hairs. Body stout, abdomen smooth, 

 cylindro-conical ; palpi vertical, first and second joint stout, laxly squaniose, second 

 reaching to middle of the eyes, third joint slender, lanceolate, one-third length of 

 second ; antenna long, minutely serrated and ciliated in male, setaceous in female ; 

 legs stout, femora pilose beneath, spurs long, 



Tifpe, S. retorta. 



SPIRAMA C0H.5;RENS (Plate 165, Fig. 3, 3n, 5 ?). 

 Spirama cohcerens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1321 (1858). 

 Male. Ohvaceous greyish-brown, in some aspects violaceous greyish-brown, 

 darkest towards the base : forewing with an indistinctly defined subbasal, medial, 

 and a discal transverse blackish line, each line angled outward below the costa, 

 followed by two less distinct submarginal denticulated lines ; at the end of the cell 

 is a black-lined retort-shaped mark, which is white lined on its outer side ; middle of 

 the upper radial and lower subcostal vein also black lined : hindwing with obsolescent 

 traces of discal and submarginal lines. Underside of wings uniformly brown, with 



