55G noctcid.-e. 



area and terminal area to void 3 tinged with purplish pink, a black 

 discoidal lunule and curved lunulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. G pink a, St. Jean Sfaroni (Schaus), 1 <3 type. Exp. 22 

 milliin. 



Genus HYPERSTROTIA, nov. 



Type. H. tstheria. 



Proboscis fully developer! ; pilpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; Irons smooth; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without distinct crests; tibire smoothly scaled; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien 

 evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (3 from below upper angle; 7, 8, U stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 shortly stalked, 5 from just above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 closely approximated towards base. 



A. Fore wing with leaden-blackish subterminal marks molybdota. 



B. Fore wing without leaden-blackish subterminal marks. 



a. Fore wiug with curved white band beyond postmedial 



line albicincla. 



b. Fore wing with white or pale violaceous suffusion on 



postmedial area inordinata. 



c. Fore wing without white or pale suffusion on postmedial 



area meed. 



5834. Hyperstrotia molybdota, n. sp. (Plate CLXV. fig. 19.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing whitish suffused with reddish brown ; traces of a curved 

 minutely waved antemedial line; reniform with faint whitish 

 annulus, elliptical; the medial area with large chocolate-brown 

 patch from discal fold to inner margin, angled outwards to post- 

 medial line below the reniform, its inner edge curved to inner 

 margin at postmedial line and its outer edge waved; postmedial 

 line indistinct, whitish, oblique from costa to vein 6, strongly 

 angled outwards at vein 3, then oblique, waved, some oblique 

 whitish striae beyond it from costa : an oblique, curved, leaden- 

 blackish subapical mark with a rounded patch below it between 

 veins 6 and 4 and a lunulate patch between veins 3 and 1 ; a 

 terminal scries of dark strige. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 brown ; the underside paler, with traces of brown discoidal spot 

 and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Assam, Khtisis, 1 S type. Exp. IS millim. 



5835. Hyperstrotia albicincta. 

 Naranga albicincta, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 447 (1898). 



$. Head and tegulae dark brown mixed with rufous; thorax 

 and abdomen whitish. mixed with some brown. Fore wing whitish 



