194 NOCTUIDjE. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 upturned and smoothly scaled, the second joint reaching above 

 vertex of head, the third short. Antennae simple. Thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts and smoothly scaled ; tibiae without spines. 

 Tore wing with the cilia not crenulate ; hind w T ing produced at 

 apex. 



1663. Aucha velans, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1138; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, 



pi. 162, fig. 15 ; C. $ 8. no. 2350. 



Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen fuscous brown. Yore 

 wing dark brown, with faint traces of 

 the usual waved lines and the orbicular 

 and renif orm . Hind wing black-brow r n ; 

 an orange band, sometimes suffused 

 with brown, beyond the cell and below 

 its lower angle ; an orange marginal 

 streak at anal angle ; cilia orange, 

 streaked with fuscous. Underside 

 jw 120. fuscous brown ; hind wing with the 



Amha velans, tf. \. disk and anal angle tinged with orange ; 



a cell-spot and broad marginal dark band. 



In some specimens the head, thorax, and fore wing are suffused 

 with olive-green. 



Nab. Ceylon ; Burma. Exp. 40 inillim. 



1664. Aucha nectens, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1704 ; C. $ 8. no. 2349. 

 Briarda latipennis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 894. 



Differs from velans in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 olivaceous grey, the last with diffused antemedial, medial, and sub- 

 marginal bands often developed ; the waved lines usually well 

 marked. Underside with the basal half of both wings suffused 

 with orange. 



Hob. Bombay ; Penang. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus HYPERN2ENIA, nov. 



Type, H. denticulate^ "Warr. 



Range. Himalayas ; Burma. 



Differs from Epilecta in the fore wing being broader, the apex 

 more produced, and the outer margin more oblique; the cilia 

 crenulate. 



SECT. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint short. 



1665. Hypernsenia denticulata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 307 : C. $ S. 



no. 2022 A. 



Fuscous with a slight reddish tinge. Fore wing with the costal 

 area paler ; the subbasal and antemedial double waved lines very 



