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386. Hypsa lanceolata. 



Hypsa lanceolata. Walker: vii. 1676 (1855). 



Butler : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1875, p. 316. 



Agattais lanceolata. Snellen : Tijd. voor Ent., 1888, p. 141, pi. 2, f. 5. 

 a. Celebes or Mindanao (type). b. Celebes (Wallace). c. Ce- 

 ram (Wallace). d. Tondano (Wallace). e. Sula (Wallace). 



387. Hypsa nicobarica. n. sp. 



c5 ? Palpi ochreous outwards, mouse colour above, as also in the 

 last joint and the antennas : head and body ochreous, thorax without 

 spots, abdomen with a central row of brown spots. Fore-wings mouse 

 colour, base ochreous, enclosing a black spot, and bordered with black 

 on the costa and outer side where the black border is angulated and 

 has itself a whitish outer border, a large somewhat oval white spot at 

 lower end of cell with a whitish line on the median vein connecting 

 the spot with the yellow base, no white vein markings. Hind-wings 

 white, with a broad outer marginal mouse-coloured border somewhat 

 reduced hindwards, broader in the male than in the female. Under- 

 side, wings as above, two faint grey suffused spots in the disc ; body 

 ochreous, legs mouse colour. 



Expanse of wings 2 T ^y-2^ inches. 

 Type. <5 Great Nicobars, ? Nancowry, in B. M. 

 a. Great Nicobars (Swinhoe). 



Allied to H. dicta (Butler) and intacta (Walker), is a good local 

 species. 



388. Hypsa malisa. n. sp. 



<j 9 Palpi mouse colour above, chrome yellow beneath, last joint 

 and antennas mouse colour ; thorax chrome yellow, abdomen ochreous 

 with broad black segmental bands, a thin black band on the collar 

 and a black spot on each side of the front of the thorax. Fore-wings 

 mouse colour, a white stripe from base along median vein, widening 

 at the end of the cell into a largish patch, a prominent white stripe 

 on sub-median vein, stopping short of outer margin ; some ochreous 

 colour at the extreme base, enclosing two black spots. 



Hind-wings white, with broad marginal mouse-coloured band 

 with even inner margin and very slightly narrowing towards hinder 

 margin. 



Underside, wings as above ; fore-wings with suffused whitish space 

 on lower portion ; hind-wings with a mouse-coloured spot attached 

 to the centre of the broad costal band, body ochreous, thorax suffused 

 with mouse colour at the sides, abdomen banded with black ; legs, 

 mouse colour striped with ochreous grey. 



Expanse of wings 6 2^, ? 2 ^ inches. 



a. North Halmaheira (S ? types) (Bernstein). b. Ternate 



(Wallace). 



There are examples of this species unnamed in the B. M. ; it is 

 allied to H. dama (Fabr.), but can easily be distinguished by the 



