HYPENA. 89 



2970. Hypena nigrescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350 ; C. & S. 



no. 2126. 

 Hypena herbigrada, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 416. 



Keddish fuscous brown. Fore wing with traces of an ante- 

 medial curved line ; a speck in cell and anpther at end of it ; a 

 postmedial waved line from costa before apex, incurved below 

 end of cell arid reaching middle of inner margin. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous. 



One specimen is very pale with the area between the ante- and 

 postmedial lines of fore wing suffused with black ; another has the 

 fore wing pale as far as the antemedial line, and another has a 

 black patch on the antemedial line below cell ; others have ferru- 

 ginous patches on the postmedial line, and traces of waved sub- 

 marginal line and marginal series of specks. 



Hob. Bombay ; Mahableshwar. Exp . 28 millim. 



2971. Hypena indicatalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 61. 



Hypena laesalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 62 : Moore. Lev. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 175, fig. 10 ; C.$ S. no. 2890. 

 Hypena semiclusalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1511. 

 Hypena velatipennis, JButl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, 1875, p. 410. 

 Hypena tortuosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 188; C. $ S. no. 2918. 

 Hypena cidarioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 189 ; C. $ S. no. 2867. 

 Hypena persimilis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 94, pi. 147, fig. 13. 

 Hypena argialis, Snellen, Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 118. 



Differs from cognata in having the basal half of the fore wing 

 dark purplish brown ; a small white lunule at end of cell ; the 

 postmedial line incurved from the upper of its two angles to the 

 inner margin ; three sinuous lines on the outer area ; a dark lower 

 edge to the curved streak. 



A form from the Khasis has the basal area of fore wing rufous ; 

 the outer area with dark striae ; one sinuous line, and the apical 

 streak obscure. 



Hob. Natal ; Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Borneo ; Java ; Celebes. Exp. 30 millim. 



2972. Hypena assimllis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 93, pi. 147, fig. 6. 



Differs from indicatalis in having the basal aiea of fore wing 

 pale as far as the antemedial line which is oblique, thus leaving 

 a dark triangular patch between the ante- and postmedial lines ; a 

 large patch of dark suffusion below the apical streak. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 28 millim. 



2973. Hypena jocosalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 57 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 166, fig. 6 ; C.SfS. no. 2886. 



Differs from assimilis in the postmedial line of fore wing being 

 bent inwards towards the base from vein 2 to inner margin, as 

 also are the two indistinct lines beyond it. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



