MTELOIS. HYPSIPYLA. 



marginal dark-edged grey line ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing semihyaline tinged with fuscous; a marginal fuscous line. 



Fig. 55. Myelois pectinicornella, $ . \. 

 Hob. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp. 30 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus HYPSIPYLA. 

 Hypsipyla, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 10 (1888). 



Type, H. robusta, Moore. 



Range. Himalayas ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned and slender, the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of 

 liead, the 3rd long and acuminate, maxillary palpi filiform ; antennas 

 of male somewhat thickened and ciliated; mid and hind tibiae 

 with tufts of spinous hair on outer side at base and extremity. 

 JFore wing narrow ; vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with the cell 

 half length of wing ; vein 2 from well before angle ; 3 from angle ; 

 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4384. Hypsipyla robusta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 365, pi. 184, figs. 4, 

 4a (larva) ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 139, pi. vi, fig. 12; C. $ S. no. 4598. 

 Hypsipyla pagodella, Rag. 'Nouv. Gen. p. 10 ; C. fy S. no. 4566. 



Pale rufous brown irrorated with black and grey. Fore wing 



with the costal half 

 strongly suffused with 

 grey : the veins all 

 streaked with black ; 

 some olive-yeilow on base 

 of costa and median 

 nervure, on extremity of 



Fig. ^.-Hypsipyla robusta, rf . }. m di f n nervure and disc - 



cellulars ; traces of a dark 



einuous medial line, with a dark patch beyond it on inner margin, 

 and of a very highly dentate oblique dark post-medial line bent out- 

 wards between veins 5 and 2. Hind wing semihyaline white : the 

 costal area suffused with fuscous ; the base of cilia pale rufous. 



Larva purplish grey, with a few short hairs ; somites spotted with 

 black and with a lateral series of red spots ; head and dorsal patch on 

 2nd somite black. Feeds in the small branches of mahogany. Pupa 

 purplish brown, in an elongate silken cover. 



Hab. Simla ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp., S 26-32, 

 2 28-42 miiiim. 



