HTPOSIDRA. 213 



Leptesthes, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 445 (1894). 

 Hyalinetta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 202. 



Type, H. janiaria, Gruen., from Java and Australia. 



Range. China; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Anda- 

 mans; Sumatra; Java; Borneo; Philippines; Celebes ; Australia. 



Palpi hairy and reaching beyond the frons ; antennae of male 

 usually bipectinated with long branches to three-fourths length ; 

 hind tibiaB rarely dilated, and fringed with hair. Fore wing of 

 male with fovea ; the costa arched towards apex, which is much 

 produced; vein 3 from just before angle of cell; the discocellulars 

 angled below vein 5 ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, from before upper angle and 

 curved; 10, 11 usually stalked: female with the costa evenly 

 arched ; the outer margin excised below apex ; vein 3 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent ; 10 and 11 coincident. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Female with the outer margin of hind wing hardly crenu- 

 late : male with outer margin of neither wing excised ; 

 antenna? pectinated. 



A. Hind wing with the outer margin angled at vein 4. 



3263. Hyposidra talaca, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 59 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 185, figs. 1, 1 a, b (larva) ; C. $ 8. no. 3139. 

 Chizala deceptatura, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 264. 

 Lagyra bombycaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1539. 

 Lagyra rigusaria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1485 ; C.fy S. no. 3137. 

 Hyposidra khasiana, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 681. 



Dark olive fuscous, more or less irrorated and suffused with 

 grey : both wings with faint traces of medial and crenulate post- 

 medial lines; the cilia 

 dark. Fore wing with 

 traces of antemedial line 

 and more or less distinct 

 subapical patch in male. 

 Underside with crenulate 

 postmedial line to both 

 wings. 



-r,. n_ . ., The form riqusaria is 



Fig. 117. Hyposidra talaca, 3 . \. , j 11 



paler and redder. 



Larva pinkish olive-green, irrorated with black, and with dark 

 patches on 4th and 6th somites. Food-plants, Jambrona, Com- 

 bretum, and Ficus parasiticus. 



Hub. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans; Java; 

 Borneo ; Celebes ; Philippines. Eccp., <$ 44, $ 54-60 millim. 



3264. Hyposidra violescens, n. sp. 



cJ . Fuscous suffused with purple, and with a red tinge in parts 

 Fore wing with traces of waved antemedial and medial lines ; a 

 postmedial purplish-white line angled below costa, then slightly 



