ISOUEA. HYP^IEA. 507 



Underside with complete postmedial band to both wings ; hind 

 wing with a cell-spot. 



Hob. Dharmsala. Exp. 52 millim. 



Genus HYPJETRA. 



Hypaetra, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 259 (1852). 

 Avatha, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1100 (1857). 

 Pseudathyrma, Butl Ann. N. H. 1892, p. 299. 



Type, H. noctuoides, Guen. 



Range. Khasis ; Sylhet ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo ; Society Islands. 



Palpi upturned and met by a sharp frontal tuft, the 2nd joint 

 reaching vertex of head and roughly scaled, the 3rd long and 

 obliquely porrect ; antennae usually minutely ciliated ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled ; the fore tibiae fringed with long hair in 

 male ; the mid tibiae spined. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 rounded. 



SECT. I. (Hypcetra). Males with the subcostal neuration of fore 

 wing not distorted, and without sexual patches on fore and 

 hind wing. 



A. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 



2523. Hypsetra noctuoides, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 259 ; C. #. S. no. 2646. 



Pale red-brown ; palpi black at sides. Fore wing with very 

 indistinct subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal waved lines ; the 1st, 2nd, and 4th arising from blackish 

 patches on the costa ; the antemedial line with a large pale-edged 

 black lunule on it below the cell; the postmedial with a double 

 curve beyond the cell, the lower including a grey patch. 



Hob. Sylhet; Burma; Java. Exp. 46 millim. 



2524. Hypsetra includens, Wlk, Cat. xiii, p. 1107; C. $ S. no. 2654 ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 170, fig. 6. 



Hyptetra trigonifera, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1411 ; C. $ S. no. 2655. 

 Hypaetra complacens, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1414. 



Differs from noctuoides in the fore wing being greyer and more 

 suffused with fuscous ; the spots on the costa absent ; the lunule 

 on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent ; a dark spot in the 

 cell ; the postmedial line S' sna ped beyond the cell with a blackish 

 patch in its upper curve. Hind wing with the cilia whitish at 

 apex and near anal angle. 



Hob. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Java; Society Islands. Evp. 40-46 millim. 



2525. Hypaetra curvifera, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1412; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 170, fig. 4 ; C. # S. no. 2650. 



Ophiusa frontalis, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1434 ; C. $ S. no. 2653. 

 Achasa expectans, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1827 ; C. $ S. no. 2652. 



Differs from includens in being greyish, reddish, or very dark 



