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grey suffused with brown, especially before the irregularly waved subterminal 

 line, which is incurved below vein 3, and obliquely from termen below apex ; a 

 series of white points on apical half of oosta and termen. Hindwing dark- 

 brown with a fine dark terminal line ; the cilia grey at tips. Underside of fore- 

 wing with subapical white point ; hindwing grey irrorated with brown ; a 

 brown discoidal point and curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



One specimen has the medial line of forewing excurved at the discocellulars 

 and more waved below the cell ; a black point at lower angle of cell. 



Habitat.— Ceylon (Mackwood), Clodagh (Pole). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



2980. b. Hypena doda, Swinh, A. M. N. H. (7), ix., p. 180 (1902). 



Head and thorax violaceous grey tinged with brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings ; abdomen grey irroated with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Forewing 

 violaceous grey tinged with red-brown and sparsely irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct curved anttmedial line sometimes reduced to a striga from costa 

 and points on the veins ; a small white spot in middle of cell ringed with 

 brown ; a dark discoidal point ; a strong slightly oblique brown postmedial 

 line usually with a more or less distinct fine line just beyond it followed by a 

 series of minute dentate dark marks slightly bent outwards to costa and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points and slight lunule 

 above tornus ; cilia with black mark at apex and two or three between the 

 angle at vein 3 and tornus. Hindwing fuscous brown with terminal series of 

 small dark lunules and fuscous marks on cilia ; the underside grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with dark-brown, a discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line showing through to upperside. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis ; Penang ; Peeak ; Formosa. Exp. 30-34 

 mill. 



2988. a. Hypena tuma, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), viii., p. 21 (1901). 



Palpi with tuft on outer side of 3rd joint at base and no tuft on inner side. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 dorsal tufts tipped with black. Forewing purplish suffused with chestnut to 

 the postmedial line ; the antemedial line rufous, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, then very oblique to submedian fold at middle, then acutely angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; the medial area blackish above vein 2 with the tuft in 

 middle of cell and a diffused spot in end of it blackish ; postmedial line black 

 defined by purple on outer side, erect and angled outwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds ; the terminal area fuscous with a curved whitish mark from 

 apex with two small black and white dentate marks above it and a series of 

 less prominent similar marks between it and inner margin ; some white points 

 on costa towards apex and a terminal series of black and pale points. Hind- 

 wing fuscous brown with fine dark terminal line. 



Habitat. — Assam, Jaintia Hills ; Singapore ; Borneo. Exp. 36 mill. 



3008. d. Prolophota perstriata, n. sp. 



$. White ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen tinged with brown and with 

 fulvous medial band. Forewing with black streak from near base through the 



