424 NOCTcriD^ii;. 



abdomen rufous, the ventral surface ■whitish. Fore wing rufous 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a large white patch on basal area, 

 its upper edge bidentate, its outer edge curved ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by two dark strise from costa ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 excurved below cell ; claviform absent ; orbicular represented by 

 two obliquely placed white spots in cell with white patch above it 

 on costa; reniform a rather rounded white patch almost conjoined 

 to the lower orbicular spot; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to vein 2; postmedial line sliglitly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to white points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, a large round white patch beyond 

 it just below costa conjoined to an elliptical apical spot ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of whitish lunules and white 

 point on costa, defined by a curved dentate dark line on inner side, 

 with white spot beyond it in submedian interspace ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line ; cilia brown, pale rufous at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia 

 whitish with a slight brown line near base ; the underside white 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular spot confluent with the 

 costal patch which is also confluent with the reniform patch, a small 

 elongate white mark beyond upper angle of cell. — Java. 



ffnb. Ceylon (J. Pole), 1 § type ; Sin&apoee {Ridley). 1 S ; 

 W. Java (Buitens), 1 $ . U.rj). 36-46 millim. 



4109. Hypoperigea turpis. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 10.) 



Acontia turpis, Wlk. xii. 794 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 252. 

 Caradrina discophora, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 204 (1902). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with rufous ; palpi banded with 

 fuscous; frons with lateral black bars; tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings ; abdomen white suffused with ochreous. Fore wing whitish 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, some orange-red on 

 basal costal area and fasciae in submedian fold and medial part of 

 discal fold ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 oblique, waved, with whitish points before it in cell and on vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, orange-red, defined by blackish ; orbicular and 

 reniform with orange-red centres and whitish annuli defined by 

 blackish, both constricted at middle ; traces of a sinuous medial 

 line; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and with black and Avhite points beyond it on the 

 veins, slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 

 slightly defined by blackish on inner side, minutely waved, ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it tinged with 

 red ; a terminal scries of minute black lunules ; cilia brown, the 

 tips whitish with series of fuscous points. Hind wing pure white 

 in male, the terminal area tinged with fuscous in female ; the 



