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 Habitat. — Sikhim Tibet, Yatung. Exp. 34 mill. 



1787. DlMYA SICHIMENSIS. * 



1786. DlMYA HER.CHATRA. 



Genus Hypsophila. 



Type. 



Hypsophila, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1888, p. 40 juyorum. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head and fringed 

 with very long hair in front ; f rons smooth ; eyes small, renif orm ; antennae 

 of male with fascicles of very long cilia ; head and thorax clothed with long 

 woolley hair only and without crests; pectus and leg clothed with 

 woolley hair ; abdomen clothed with woolley hair and without crests. Fore- 

 wing triangular, the termen obliquely curved ; 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 shortly stalked; 8 anastomos- 

 ing with the cell near base only. 



17996. Hypsophila jugopjctm. 



Heliothis jugorum, Ersch. Fedtsch. Keise, p. 48, pi. 3, f . 46 (1874) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal, p. 219. 



Hypsophila haberhaueri, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 50. 

 „ pamira, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 42. 



S . Head, thorax and abdomen clothed with greenish grey hair slightly 

 tinged with rufous. Forewing greenish grey tinged with pale reddish 

 brown and with slight dark irroration ; antemedial line reddish brown, 

 diffused, somewhat sinuous, oblique from costa to submedian fold where it 

 is slightly angled outwards ; orbicular very small, round, with slight grey 

 annulus ; reniform a fuscous lunule ; postmedial line brown, very minutely 

 dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then obliquely 

 incurved ; subterminal line only defined by brown suffusion on inner side, its 

 outer edge somewhat dentate and incurved at discal fold and below vein 

 3; a fine terminal dark line. Hindwing white, the basal and inner areas 

 suffused with brown ; a large blackish oblique oblong discoidal spot ; 

 terminal area black brown, its inner edge angled outwards at discal fold, 

 then incurved to discoidal spot; cilia white. Underside of both wings 

 whitish with the terminal area broadly fuscous leaving some whitish at 

 apex of forewing beyond a dark bar from costa ; both wings with large 

 oblong black discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. haberhaueri. — Forewing with the ante-and post- medial lines 

 defined by brown on medial area, approximated below the cell and conjoined 

 into a brown band. 



Ab. 2. pamira. — Forewing more uniform red-brown, the ante- and post- 

 medial lines more approximated below submedian fold ; hindwing with the 



