55 G NcJcTUiD.i;. 



area and terminal area to vein 3 tinged with purplish pink, a black 

 discoidal lunule and curved lunulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Bk. Guinea, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 cj' tj'pe. Exj). 22 

 millim. 



Genus HYPERSTROTIA, nov. 



T^-pe, H. cBtheria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; p ilpi upt-iirned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of bead and moderateiy scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennai of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without distinct crests; tibi;e smoothly scaled; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (3 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 shortly stalked, 5 fi-om just above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veius 10, 11 closely approximated towards base. 



A. Fore wing with leaden-blackish subterminal marks molybdota. 



B. Fore wing without leaden-blackish subterminal marks. 



a. Fore wing with curved white band beyond postmedial 



line ; albicincta. 



b. Fore wing with white or pale violaceous suffusion on 



postmerl ial area inordinata. 



c. Fore wing without white or pale suffusion on postmedial 



area meeci. 



5834. Hyperstrotia molyMota, n. sp. (Plate CLXV. fig. 19.) 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing Avhitish suffused with reddish brown ; traces of a curved 

 minutely waved antemedial line ; reniform with faint whitish 

 annnlus, ellijitical ; the medial area with large chocolate-brown 

 patch from discal fold to inner margin, angled outwards to post- 

 medial line below the reniform, its inner edge curved to inner 

 margin at postmedial line and its outer edge waved; postmedial 

 line indistinct, whitish, oblique from costa to vein 6, strongly 

 angled outwards at vein 3, then oblique, waved, some oblique 

 whitish stri.Te beyond it from costa ; an oblique, curved, leaden- 

 blackish subapical mark with a rounded patch below it between 

 veins 6 and 4 and a lunulate patch betAveen veins 3 and 1 ; a 

 terminal series of dark striae. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 brown; the underside paler, with traces of brown discoidal spot 

 and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Jlab. Assam, Khasis, 1 c? type. Eay. 18 millim. 



5835. Hyperstrotia albicincta. 



Naranga albicincta, Hmpsu. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 447 (1898). 



(S . Head and tegulge dark brown mixed \\ith rufous ; thorax 

 and abdomen whitish mixed with some brown. Fore wing whitish 



