218 GEOMETBID^E. 



Genus HYPEPHYRA. 

 Hypephyra, Butl. III. Net. vii, p. 101 (1889). 



Type, H. terrosa, Butl. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas. 



Palpi hairy and reaching beyond the sharp frontal tuft ; antennae 

 of male ciliated ; hind tibiae dilated. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, from before upper angle ; 1 

 absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 



3278. Hypephyra terrosa, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 101, pi. 135, fig. 17. 



Palpi grey, irrorated with fuscous ; the wings irrorated with 

 bluish silvery scales ; antemedial and medial sinuous rufous lines ; 

 a dark spot at end of cell ; a crenulate postmedial black line with 

 some rufous inside it and some dark suffusion with dentate outer 

 edge beyond it on inner area. Hind wing with black speck at end 

 of cell, and indistinct waved antemedial, medial, and submarginal 

 lines. Underside fulvous yellow, with black cell-spots and post- 

 medial line with black patch beyond it on inner area of fore wing 

 and black irroration on hind wing. 



JJab. Simla ; Dharinsala. Exp., <$ 46, $ 40 millim. 



Genus HYPERYTHRA. 



Ilyperythra, Guen. Phal i, p. 99 (1857). 

 Syrrhodia, Hubn. Verz. p. 300 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Petrodava, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1656 (1862). 

 Pseuderythra, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 204. 



Type, H. lutea, Cram. 



Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions ; New 

 Guinea. 



Palpi hairy and reaching well beyond the frons ; a sharp frontal 

 tuft ; antennae of male bipectinated to two-thirds length ; fore 

 tibia with the process large. Fore wing of male typically with a 

 slight fovea below base of median nervure ; the apex somewhat 

 acute ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, from near 

 upper angle ; 11 free. Hind wing with the outer margin crenu- 

 late ; vein 3 from angle of cell. 



In SvrrAodta, the W. Indian and S. American section, the males 

 have a large membranous vesicle at base of hind wing below, and 

 no fovea to fore wing. 



SECT. II. (Hyperythra). Males with the costa of hind wing highly 

 arched ; a very long tuft of hair from base of cell lying in a 

 fold above vein 6 ; the cell very short and open. 



3279. Hyperythra lutea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, p. 157, pi. 370, fi?s. 



< . 1 > ; C. $ S. no. 3148. 

 Pliala-na flavaria, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 187. 

 Phalsena flavata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 109. 



