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brown, much irrorated with black. Fore wing with the lines 

 almost or quite obsolete, the postmedial being most distinct ; the 

 black patches absent and only represented by a fuscous patch 

 beyond the cell, sometimes conjoined to a triangular shade on the 

 costa. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 46 millim. 



2526. Hypaetra bubo, Hilbn. Zutr. iv, p. 13, figs. G33, 634. 



Hypsetra perficiens, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1412 ; C. $ S. no. 2647. 

 Hypgetra condita, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1413 ; C. $ S. no. 2649. 



Differs from noctuoides in the 

 head, thorax, and fore wing 

 being purplish grey. Fore wing 

 with the medial and outer areas 

 palest ; the black lumiles on the 

 antemedial and postmedial lines 

 extremely large and produced at 

 their angles ; the lines more 

 Fig. &&-Hyp*tra bubo, rf. \. distinct and dentate ; some pale 



specks on the costa. Hind wini^ 



with a diffused pale streak near anal angle ; the cilia pale at apex 

 and anal angle ; underside with a medial maculate line. 



Hab. Shillong; Nilgiris; Ceylon; Andamans. Exp. 56 millim. 



*2527. Hypaetra? remigioides, Guen. Noct. Hi, p. 230; C. $ S. 

 no. 2607. 



Head and thorax fleshy grey ; abdomen yellow, reddish below. 

 Fore wing grey ; the costa and markings of costal area velvety 

 brown ; the antemedial line straight and oblique, with dark suffu- 

 sion inside it, and with a pale-edged black patch inside it on 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line waved, straight near costa ; 

 reniform large and indistinct, with a large bilobed patch below it, 

 from which three waved lines run to inner margin ; orbicular a 

 omall ring-spot; the submarginal line irregularly dentate, with a 

 black speck on each nervule. Hind wing fulvous yellow, with an 

 indistinct submargiual fuscous baud with a line above it near inner 

 margin. 



Hab. " Central India." Exp. 55 millim. 



B. Antennce of male with long branches on the outer sides, very short 

 branches and long stiff bristles on the inner side, a tuft of half 

 on upperside of shaft near base. 



2528. Hypaetra apicalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 405, pi. 33, fig. 7. 



Sphetta raoorei, Cotes $ Swinh. Cat. Moths Ind. p. 172 ; C. 8f S. 

 no. 1141. 



Head and collar whitish ; palpi fuscous at sides ; thorax purplish 

 fuscous ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, with very 



