THE MOTHS 01 INDIA. 443 



faint pale annulus ; a rather diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to dark points 

 on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by red-brown, almost 

 straight ; a terminal series of slight black points. Hindwing grey suffused 

 with brown ; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia with a fine whitish 

 line at base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal lunule and rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, Simla, Dharmsala, Kalapani. ^.t^?- 

 36-36. mill. 



1857ffl. Athexis bimacula, 



Nebrissa bimacula, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi, p. 194 (1862); 

 Swinh., Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii, p. 41, pi. 1, 

 f. 22. 

 Caradrina terminata, Hmpsn., J. Bom. Soc. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 

 444 (1897) . 

 1881. Athbtis variana. 



Genus Hypopebigea. 



Type. 



Hypoperigea, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., viii., p. 422 

 (1909) tonza. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd 

 moderate ; frons with rather small truncate comical prominence with 

 slightly raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated, with a ridge of scaled be- 

 tween them ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro-and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hindwing with veins 3"4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper angle ; 8 an a stomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Forewing with large white or pale patch at base. 



a. Forewing with white or pale curved mark from 



middle of costa to apex . . . . • , , . . albonotata. 



b. Forewing with obliquely placed white patches from 



middle of costa to apex . . . . . . . . leiirostictu . 



B. Forewing without white or pale basal patch. 

 2024. Hypopebigea albonotata. 



