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with a large purplish-brown patch on the middle of its inner margin from near the upper 

 extremity of cell to middle of median interspace and covering nearly the whole cell to its 

 base ; another spot of the same colour at base of inner margin ; the apical streak ochreous 

 white, forming a patch on the costa as far as the oblique fascia, the area immediately below 

 it dark brown ; a dark spot above the submedian nervure near the outer angle ; a series of 

 small antecilial spots. Hind wing and underside fuscous, the latter with a lunule at end of 

 cell, and obscure medial band to both wings. 



Allied to H. urlicicola ; it has small tufts of raised black scales on the fore wing like it 

 and its allies, but the markings are not very similar. 



Hypena nilgirica. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 1.) 



Expanse 1;^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing with the ground-colour composed of light- and dark-brown scales, with 

 purple and pale patches near the base and beyond the postmedial band ; all these colours 

 blurred and confused ; a waved red-brown antemedial band ; another postmedial with an 

 obscure diffused band beyond it, of which the upper part is pale, the lower purple, and 

 traversed by a dark line ; an obscure pale apical streak, with a dentate line from it to outer 

 angle' ; an antecilial lunulate line. Hind wing fuscous ; cilia pale brown, dark at middle ; an 

 antecilial dark line. Underside pale ochreous, suffused with fuscous ; some dark strigae on 

 the costa of fore wing near apex ; a lunule in cell of hind wing. 



Allied to H. dispundaUs, Walk., but with antemedial band more regularly curved and 

 medial band nearly straight and slightly outwardly-oblique, not curved. 



Hypena minor. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 22.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Fore wing mottled brown, somewhat suffused with purple ; a dark spot in centre 

 of cell, and white speck at end of it ; some dark scales below median nervure near base ; a 

 dark, somewhat waved and dentate, erect postmedial band, with a pale outer border ; three 

 ochreous-white costal strigae near apex ; an apical irregular streak of the same colour, with an 

 obscure pale lunulate line below it to outer angle. Hind wing fuscous ; cilia pale, dark at 

 middle; a fine antecilial line. Underside entire fuscous, except for the apical ochreous 

 strigae, and a subapical speck of the same colour. 



Allied to H. squamea, but smaller, with a white speck at end of cell, and dentate post- 

 medial band. 



