terminal line, exeurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous brown, the cilia whitisli at tips towards apex and in 

 submedian interspace. 



Ab. 1. Head, thoi-ax, and fore wing paler and more ochreous. 



Hah. Bh. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), 1 d, 4 9, Mt. Kebea 

 (Pratt), 3 d", 3 2. JExj). 44-54 millim. Type in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. 



7832. Hypaetra discolor. 



Koctiia discolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst, iii. (2) p. 50 (1794). 



Avatha wcludois, Wlk. xiii. 1107 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 172, 



pi. 170. f. 6 ; Hiupsn. ]\I(;ths Iiid. ii. p. 507. 

 Hypatra trigonifera, Wlk. xiv. 1411 (1858). 

 Hypcetra curvifera, Wlk. xiv. 1412 (1858); Moore, Lcp. Ceyl. iii. p. 174, 



pi. 170. f. 4 ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507. 

 Hypcetra complacenii. Wlk. xiv. 1414 (1858). 

 Ophiusa frontalis, Wlk. xiv. 1434 (18.^8). 

 AchcBa expectans, Wlk. xv. 1827 (1858). 



Head and thorax reddish brown ; antennse blackish ; palpi and 

 .sides of frons deep chocolate-brown ; pectus and legs grey-brown, 

 the spurs and tarsi with pale nngs ; abdomen grey-brown, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing purjjlish grey-brown faintly 

 irrorated and striated with brown ; a .small tuft of white-tipped 

 scales below base of cell ; subbasal line black-brown, curved, front 

 eosta to median nervure ; a deep chocolate - brown antemedial 

 lunulate spot in submedian interspace slightly defined at sides by 

 yellowish scales, with a red-brown band from it to costa, where 

 there is a pale oblique striga with some dark brown beyond it ; 

 medial area pale greyish ochreous in-orated with red-brown ; a black 

 point in middle of cell ; medial line red-brown, slight, exeurved 

 and sinuous to discal fold, then incurved ; postmedial line black- 

 brown, sinuous towards costa, incurved at discal fold to the diseo- 

 cellulars where there is a chocolate-brown spot on its outer side 

 defined on inner side bv vellow .scales, bevond lower angle of cell 

 produced to a small oblique loop, exeurved below submedian fold, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; a slight crenulate dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing grey-ljrown, the cilia white intersected 

 with brown towards apex and white above vein 2 ; the underside 

 grey-brown, the inner area whitish, a slight whitish discoidal 

 lunule and rather diffused curved dark postmedial line from costa 

 to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the dark antemedial lunulate spot. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing without the pale medial band, the antemedial 

 spot present. 



Ab. 3. trigonifera. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing red-brown. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with blackish suffiision before the antemedial 

 and beyond the postmedial lines, the medial area reddish brown, 

 the antemedial spot absent. — N. Guinea. 



Ab. 5. Similar to ab. 4 but fore wing with the ba.sal and fenninal 

 ai'eas suffused with silvorv grev. — X. (Tuinca. 



