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angle of cell, where there is a white spot ; the submarginal line 

 pale, with some dark streaks between it and the oblique line. 



In the form angulifasda the colour of the male is ochreous, with 

 the oblique line chestnut and bent down to middle of inner margin 

 instead of running to the base ; the female is uniform fulvous, with 

 white speck at angle of cell, the line single, bent, and running to 

 the base. In plusioides there is an indistinct angled antemedial 

 line ; obscure orbicular and reniform spots ; the postmedial line 

 angled below costa, curved beyond cell, then double and running to 

 middle of inner margin ; an obscure apical streak with dark sagittate 

 marks below it; an indistinct dentate submarginal line; colour 

 dark vinous brown, the area beyond the oblique line tinged with 

 fulvous. In a Nilgiri form the oblique line is almost straight from 

 the angle below costa. In sagittata the colour is duller and more 

 uniform brown, with the line more uniformly excurved round cell ; 

 the palpi often somewhat shorter. 



Hab. N.W.Himalayas; Mlgiris. Exp. 30-35 millim. 



SECT. II. AntennaB of male bipectinated ; palpi and shape as 

 in pionealis. 



2916. Rhynchina sigillata, Butl. Ill Net. vii, p. 75, pi. 131, fig. 11. 



Differs from the form plusioides of angulata in having the 

 ground-colour blackish fuscous ; the reniform grey or olive ; a black 

 streak above outer angle. 



Hab. Dharmsala; Dalhousie. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus HYPENA. 



Hypena, Sc/trank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2, p. 163 (1802). 

 Ophiuche, Miibn. Verz. p. 344 (? 1818). 

 Bomolocha, Hubn. Verz. p. 343. 

 Naarda, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1694 (1866). 

 Mathura, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 188 (1882). 

 Harita, Moore, Lep. A tk. p. 187. 

 Apanda, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 186. 

 Ptyophora, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 123 (1893). 



Type, H. rostralis, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Antenna minutely ciliated in male; an acute frontal tuft; 

 thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal tufts ; mid and hind 

 tibiae but slightly hairy. Pore wing with the apex acute and 

 depressed. 



SECT. I. (Hypena). Palpi extremely long and porrect, the 2nd 

 and 3rd joints fringed on both sides with long hair ; abdominal 

 tufts on first two segments. 



A. Fore wing long and narrow ; the raised tufts ivell developed. 



2917. Hypena longipennis, Wlk. Ca*.xxxiv,p.ll39; C. $ S. no. 2893. 

 J . Dark fuscous. Fore wing irrorated with black ; the costal 



