terminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips towards apex and in 

 submedian interspace. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing paler and more ochreous. 



Sah. Be. N. auiNEA, Ekeikei (Praft), 1 d , 4 2 , Mt. Kebea 

 (Pratt), 3 c?, 3 2 . Uxp. 44-54 millim. Type in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. 



7832. Hypsetra discolor. 



Noctua discolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, (2) p. 50 (1794). 



Avatha includens, Wlk. xiii. 1107 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p 17''' 



pi. 170. f. 6 ; Hmpsn. M.-ths Ind. ii. p. 507. 

 Hypatra trigonifera, Wlk. xiv. 1411 (1858). 

 Hypmtra curvifera, Wlk. xiv. 14J2 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p 174 



pi. 170. f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507. 

 Hypatra complacens, Wlk. xiv. 1414 (1858). 

 Ophiusa frontalis, Wlk. xiv. 1434 (1858). 

 Achma expectans, Wlk. xv. 1827 (1858). 



Head and thorax reddish brown ; antennae blackish ; palpi and 

 sides of frons deep chocolate-brown ; pectus and legs grey-brown, 

 the spurs and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, tlie 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing purplish grey-brown faintly 

 irrorated and striated with brown ; a small tuft of white-tipped 

 scales below base of cell ; subbasal line black-brown, curved, from 

 costa to median nervure ; a deep chocolate - brown antemedial 

 lunulate spot in submedian interspace slightly defined at sides by 

 yellowish scales, with a red-brown band from it to costa, where 

 there is a pale oblique striga with some dark brown beyond it ; 

 medial area pale greyish ochreous iiTorated with red-brown ; a black 

 point in middle of cell ; medial line red-brown, slight, excurved 

 and sinuous to discal fold, then incurved ; postmedial line black- 

 brown, sinuous towards costa, incurved at discal fold to the disco- 

 cellulars where there is a chocolate-brown spot on its outer side 

 defined on inner side by yellow scales, beyond lower angle of cell 

 produced to a small oblique loop, excurved below submedian fold, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; a slight crenulate dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia white intersected 

 with brown towards apex and white above vein 2 ; the underside 

 grey-brown, the inner area whitish, a slight whitish diseoidal 

 lunule and mther diffused curved dark postmedial Une from costa 

 to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the dark antemedial lunulate spot. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing without the pale medial band, the antemedial 

 spot present. 



Ab. 3. trigonifera. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing red-brown. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with blackish suffusion before the antemedial 

 and beyond the postmedial lines, the medial area reddish brown, 

 the antemedial spot absent. — N. Guinea. 



Ab. 5. Similar to ab. 4 but fore wing with the basal and terminal 

 areas suffused with silvery grey. — N. Guinea. 



