BY L. B. PROUT. 1^5 



84. Hyphochrosis lycorarta Gnen. 



Hypochrosis lycoraria Guen., Spec. G6n. L6p., x, p. 538, 1868, Borneo. 

 Hypochrosis jasminaria Guen., loc. cit.. East Indies. 



Lio Matu, December — 1 cf ; Bakong — 1 cf • 



Both the examples belong to the form jasminaria. The 

 species is fairly common in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and 

 Borneo. Tams records it from Siam. 



85. Hypochrosis cbntraria Snell. 



Hypochrosis centraria Snell. in Veth, Midden --Sumatra, iv, 1 (2), 

 p. 57, pi. iv, f. 13, 1880, Sumatra. 



Hypochrosis mimaria Swinh., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), iii, p. 92, 

 1909, Sumatra. 



Mt. Penrissen, 2000 feet— 1 cf . 

 Hitherto only from Siimati-a. 



86. Hypochrosis xerophylla sp. n. 



O* 37 mm. 



Face slightly tufted; deep brown, tinged with rufous, 

 narrowly pale above. Palpus If ; ochreous, mixed with purple- 

 red, above darkened towards end of 2nd joint, the minute 

 decumbent 3rd joint blackish. Vertex and antenna whitish 

 flesh-colour; pectinations about 6. Thorax above whitish- 

 fleshy, beneath mixed with ochreous and purplish ; abdomen 

 above rather paler, beneath varied with ochreous and purplish 

 and with some black scales. Legs spotted with purple and 

 blackish, the last four joints of fore tarsus mostly blacker, 

 those of mid tarsus also darkened. 



Fore wing slightly narrower than in mixticolor Prout (Seitz 

 Macrolep iv, p. 337) ; SC^ (out of SC*) anastomosing with C, 

 SC^'^ separating close to apex or perhaps coincident, SC^ very 

 long stalked, E^ not much before middle of DC ; whitish-buff 

 with a fleshy tinge and with coarse black-grey irroration or 

 minute strigulation ; ill-defined browner (somewhat ochreous) 

 shades at base, antemedially (bent in cell), medially (broadest 

 at costa, then enclosing a large black, pale rimmed cell-dot), 

 proximally to the postmedian and at apex of costa ; no definite 

 lines except the postmedian which runs obliquely and almost 

 straight (or extremely gently incurved) from towards two-thirds 

 of hind margin to K^ (about 3 mm. from termen), in front of 

 which it is acutely angled and weakened and runs obliquely 

 inward to costa a little proximal to two-thirds ; terminal edge 

 ochreous; fringe deep red-brown. Hind wing rather narrower. 



