LOPHARTHRUM. HYPERLOPHA. 19 



orange marbled with rufous except at apex. Underside yellow 

 and pa)e reddish, with indistinct cell-spot ; two jxtetmedial and 

 one submarginal line to each wing. 



Larva brown, with black specks and striae. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Nilgiris ; Andamans ; Borneo. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



Genus HYPERLOPHA, nov. 



Type, H. cristifera, Wlk. 



Range. Mlgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd 

 long and naked ; antennae with long cilia and bristles in male ; 

 thorax with a high sharp tuft behind collar ; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled ; tibiae slightly hairy. Fore wing with the costa arched ; 

 the apex acute and produced ; the outer margin angled at 

 middle ; the cilia crenulate. Hind wing with the outer margin 

 rounded ; vein 5 from near middle of discocellulars. 



2757. Hyperlopha cristifera, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1071; C. $ S. 



no. 2713. 



Catada epops, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 120, fig. 42. 

 Zethes irrorata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. li3, pi. 165, fig. 12. 



$ . Pale grey ; thorax with the extremity of scales brown. 

 Fore wing with traces of seven sinuous lines ; an indistinct reni- 



form mark ; a chocolate band 

 on the inner half of submar- 

 ginal line ; some chocolate 

 marks on the margin. Hind 

 wing with traces of post- 

 medial and submarginal 

 lines. Underside with cell- 

 spot, crenulate postmedial 

 Fig. 7 .Hyperlopha cristifera, <$ . f and blotched submarginal 



lines. 



c? . Head and thorax thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a brown 

 patch at base of abdomen, which is fuscous. Fore wing thickly 

 irrorated with brown ; the seven lines more distinct and brown ; 

 the band on submarginal line less prominent. Hind wing 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 42 millim. 



2758. Hyperlopha compactilis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 251, 



pi. 7, fig. 16. 



cJ . Differs from cristifera in the vertex of head being ochreous 

 and red ; the tuft behind collar with rufous edges. Fore wing 

 less irrorated with brown and the markings less distinct ; a large 

 silvery patch on middle of inner area ; the band on submarginal 

 line well developed. 



Hab. Thyetmyo, Burma. Exp. 36 millim. 



