658 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



1556. Hypena ohductalis. 



Hypena obductalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xvi, p. 56 (1858) ; 



Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii, p. 83 (1895). 

 Bomolocha rhomhalis, Alph., Rom. sur Lep., vi, p. 50, pi. ii, 



fig. 10 $ (1892). 



One example from Chang-yang, captured in August, 

 and one from each of the following localities — Omei-shan, 

 Che-tou, and Chow-pin-sa, these were taken in June and 

 July. 



Alpheraky records this species from the province of Set- 

 chouen under the name B. rhomhalis, Walk. 



Distribution. Simla ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; KhAsis 

 {Hampson); Central and Western China. 



1557. Hypena viandarina, sp. n. 



Primaries grey clouded with fuscous-brown ; a large irregular 

 cbocolate-brown patch occupies nearly the whole of the medial area 

 and extends to the costa, the external edge of this patch, which is bor- 

 dered with whitish, is incurved to'vein 5, where it is obtusely angled, 

 tlience inwardly oblique and nearly straight to just above the middle 

 of the inner margin where it curves upwards and continues in an 

 oblique direction to the base of the wing ; a thin brownish line 

 parallel with contour of the patch and a diffuse blackish, oblique, 

 streak from the apex ; submarginal line represented by a wavy series 

 of black and white dots. Secondaries fuscous with a blackish discal 

 lunule. Under surface pale brown powdered with fuscous, sufl'used 

 with fuscous on the primaries ; all the wings have a discal mark, 

 black and prominent on secondaries, and a fuscous postmedial line, 

 the latter is slightly elbowed about the middle ; primaries have a 

 whole dot below the costa towards the apex. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



One example of each sex from Ta-chien-lu, one male 

 from Pu-tsu-fong, and one from Chang-yang. June and 

 July. 



Rahitat. Central and Western China. 



Allied to H. rhomhalis, Guen. 



1558. Hypena squalida. 



Hypena squalida, Butl, 111. Typ. Lep. Het., iii, p. 60, pi. 



Ivi, fig. 2 (1879). 

 Hypena fontis, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 556, 



