BY MISS A. E. PBOUT. 495 



118. Hypena species. 



Pah Trap, November — 1 0*. 



Too poor to determine. It is not even possible to judge 

 whether this is Hkely to belong to a new species. 



119. NaARDA NODARIODRS sp. n. 



In coloration this species closely resembles a purplish 

 specimen of Nodaria cxternalis, but the abdomen and hind 

 wing are much darker than in that species, much more 

 resembling the thorax and fore wing. Nodariodes is also 

 at once distinguishable by the porrect or almost drooping 

 palpus, with the second segment •thickened with scales above 

 (broadly at proximal end). Fore icing with a fairly distinct, 

 slightly oblique, waved antemedial line from 2/7 costa to J 

 hind margin ; a slight, diffused tawny medial shade with a 

 shght pale reniform (anteriorly and posteriorly dark-dotted) 

 on its distal edge; a fine dark postmedial line, a little bent 

 outward from about two-thirds costa to SC% from whence it 

 is minutely dentate and slightly oblique to § hind margin, but 

 a little bent outward from E" to M^ ; subterminal line pale, 

 angled inward before R^ and incurved before hind margin, 

 excurved before and . behind the angle. Hind wing with 

 obscure medial and postmedial lines and pale subterminal, 

 as on fore wing. Underside paler and rather greyer ; fore 

 wing with slightly curved postmedial line ; hind wing with 

 discal spot (on faint medial shade) and slight, diffused dark 

 postmedial and subterminal shades. 



Mt. Poi, 5200 feet — 1 ^ Also a very worn 9 , which may 

 probably belong here, from the same mountain, 4500 feet. 



In his "Moths of India," Sir G. Hampson sinks Naarda to 

 Hypena, but the two genera seem to me abundantly distinct. 

 In Naarda the hind wing is much less ample than in Hypena 

 and more or less reproduces the pattern of fore wing ; in 

 Hypena it is very ample and practically unmarked. In 

 Naarda the cell of both wings is rather shorter than in 

 typical Hypena species. In the cT, Naarda also differs 

 typically in the presence of a moderate-sized fold on costa 

 of fore wing beneath. As already stated in this paper, these 

 costal folds seem a somewhat fundamental structure in the 

 Hypeninae ; though as nodariodes is only known in the 9 - 

 it is of course impossible to speak with certainty as to the 

 presence of the fold. 



