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streaks on the veins and a striga at inner margin with another dark striga 

 before it ; a terminal series of slight brown striae : the underside oehreous 

 white^ the costal area slightly irrorated with red-brown. 



ifa*^^ai.— Madras, Gooty (Campbell). Ex'p. 32 mill. Type in B. M, 



2526«>. Hyp^xra pulcherkima, Butl., A. M. N. H., 1892, p. 298. 



„ tepesceus, Swinh., A. M. N, H. (7) xvi, p. 152 (nee Wlk.). 



Head rufous ; palpi brown ; sides of frons deep brown with fine whitish 

 streaks above ; thorax rufous and deep brown ; abdomen brown, the 

 dorsal crests rufous. Forewing brown with a violaceous tinge ; a black 

 spot on costal area near base finely defined by whitish ; a broad deep 

 black antemedial band from costa to just above inner margin, its inner 

 edge defined by a fine whitish line and angled outwards in cell, its outer 

 edge by a whitish band diffused outwardly ; a blackish spot on costa above 

 end of cell ; an oblique cocked-hat-shaped mark just beyond the cell finely 

 defined by whitish, its upper extremity curved up to below costa and its 

 lower bent inwards to lower angle of cell, its outer edge forming the 

 postmedial line, angled upwards from its lower extremity into cell, then 

 excurved and forming two small black lunules finely defined by white on 

 inner area, a rufous shade beyond it ; a small blackish spot below costa 

 towards apex ; the terminal area rather darker. Hindwing uniform 

 brown. 



Hahitat. — Andamans, Port Blair ; Singapore ; Borneo ; Br. N. Guinea. 



Exp. 50 mill. 



2527a. Hyp^ira heterographa, n. sp, 



S . Antennae bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical part 

 simple ; hindwing with fold between veins 6-7 clothed with glossy scales 

 on upper side. Head, thorax and abdomen reddish brown; tarsi pale. 

 Forewing reddish brown suffused with grey except medial part of costal 

 area ; subbasal line represented by a small curved black mark from costal 

 with point below it ; a large irregularly triangular black antemedial patch 

 from cell to just above inner margin, its apex connected with the costa by a 

 sinuous line with small black spot before it below the costa ; a black point in 

 middle of cell ; two sinuous red-brown indistinct medial lines, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, where there is a black point, and with small 

 diffused spot on its inner edge on discocellulars, below the cell incurved to 

 submedian fold, then bent outwards, an oblique black bar beyond it from 

 costa ; an irregular obliquely placed cocked-hat-shaped black patch beyond 

 the cell, its upper extremity forming an oblique line to below the costa and 

 its lower curved inwards to below angle of cell, then with bisinuate line to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, irregularly waved, angled 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds and with oblique black striga on it 

 below costa ; the terminal area somewhat redder brown. Hindwing grey 

 brown with glossy scaling between veins 6' 7 and slight dark subterminal 



