58 NOCTUID^, 



Genus HYP^TRA. 



Type. 



HypcBtra, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 269 (1852) nociuoides. 



Avatha, Wlk. xiii. 1106 (^1857) discolor. 



Pseudathyrma, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (6) x. p. 299 (1892) complens. 



Pterochceta, Holl. Nov. Zool. yii. p. 568 (1900) stigmata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above; eyes large, round ; antennre of male typically minutely ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales and without crests ; fore tibije broadly fringed 

 with hair, the mid and hind tibire slightly fringed with hair, the fore and hind 

 tibise not spined ; abdomen with ridges of hair and hairy crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not 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. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I, {Pseudathyrma.') Antennae of male with serrations ending in a bristle ; 

 fore wing with the subcostal nervure curved downwards, with a large 

 patch of androconia edged by rough scales above it on underside, the 

 subcostal neuration distorted ; hind wing with an elliptical patch of 

 androconia on underside below extremity of vein 6. 



A. Fore wing of male with the terminal ai-ea ochreous tinged 



with brown ; hind wing with whitish patch at middle of 



terminal area macrostidsa. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area brown sufTuscd with 



purplish grey ; hind wing without whitish patch at 

 middle of terminal area. 



a. Fore wing without distin(it oblique pale medial band ... complens. 



b. Fore wing with distinct oblique pale medial band stigmata. 



7827. Hypsetra macrostidsa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIIT. fig. 4.) 



S ■ Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous ; antennae 

 brown ; palpi creamy white suffused with black-brown at sides ; 

 lower part of frons white, black at sides ; pectus and legs ochreous 

 Avhite mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white, irrorated 

 with brown towards extremity. Fore wing grey-brown largely 

 suffused with black-brown, the terminal area except at costa ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line represented by small black 

 spots on costa and median nervure ; antemedial line double, black 

 filled in with black-brown, oblique, the lines separating below 

 submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and hook on outer 

 above inner margin, defined on outer side by ochreous white below 

 median nervure ; the medial area red-brown with the depressed area 

 pale with grey-brown and two blackish patches on costa ; renif orm 

 obscurely defined by black, very narrow and forming a somewhat 

 bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell, an obliquely curved waved 

 black line from it to inner margin ; an oblique waved black line 

 from below costa joining the upper extremity of the reniform ; 

 postmedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, defining the dark 

 area, a dark brown patch before it beyond the reniform ; some 



