HYPOSCOTA. — CACTPAEIS. 461 



6805. Hyposcota Iseta. 



Ballatha lata, Wit. xxxiv. 1215 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 127; 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 284. 

 Tortrix fimbriana, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 101 (1869). 



S . Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with olive-grey ; 

 palpi grey, yellow behind ; antennae brown, orange at base and with 

 orange bar between them ; tegulse with metallic blue-black spots 

 defined by orange ; metathorax with the crest blackish ; pectus 

 and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi yellow in front, the latter ringed 

 with white, the fore tibiae with greenish grey band ; abdomen 

 orange, the extremity black. Fore wing pale purple-red mixed with 

 grey-white, the apical area blue-grey suffused with yellow ; small 

 blackish spots at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; antemedial 

 line fuscous, oblique, and hardly traceable from costa to cell, more 



Fig. 167. — Hyposcota IcBta, c?. t- 



distinct, inwardly oblique and defined on inner side by whitish below 

 the cell ; postmedial line very indistinct fuscous and oblique from 

 costa to vein 5, more distinct, inwardly oblique and defined on outer 

 side by whitish followed by a fuscous shade from vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; cilia blue-grey at base, yellow at tips to vein 2, then white. 

 Hind wing golden yellow, the cilia black at the produced part of 

 termen between veins 4 and 2. Underside of fore wing black, the 

 costal area yellow tinged with fuscous, the apical area yellow, slight 

 yellow streaks in terminal part of submedian fold and on vein 1 ; 

 hind wing with the patch of androconia black. 

 5 . Hind wing wholly golden yellow. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 (5' , 2 5 type ; Burma, Moulmein ( CZerZ:), 

 1 § . Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus CACYPAEIS. 



Type. 



Cacyparis, Wlk. xxvi . 1 572 ( 1 862) insolitata. 



Bailatha, Wlk. xxxiv. 1214 (1865) insolitata. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd about twice length of 2nd, 

 slender, dilated at extremity; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna of 

 male with long cilia; thorax clothed with scales and with some hair and 

 without crests ; build slender ; fore and mid tibise slightly fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen without crests, elongate. Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate, a rounded boss of scales at middle of 

 inner margin ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a small areola; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from below middle 

 of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



