DASYSTEEJTUK. HYPNOTTPE. 411 



with fuscous brown. Fore wing blue-grej^ thickly irrorated and 

 suffused with olive-fuscous ; faint traces of a subbasal Jine ; an 

 indistinct double, waved, antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 pale, ver}- ill-defined, the former somewhat triangular, the latter 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a very indistinct medial 

 shade ; postmedial line defined by pale grey on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then irregularly deiitate, incurved at discal 



Fig. 138. — Basysternum tibetana, (^ . }. 



fold, oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; 

 traces of a subterminal line slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the underside grey 

 irrorated with brown, traces of a diff'used postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 1 S , Amdo ; W. Chixa, Ta-chien-lu, 

 8300' {Pratt), 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus HYPNOTYPE, nov. 



Type, H. placens. 



Pi'oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; bead and tliorax clotlied aUnost entirely with 

 scales, the tegalse produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; tibiffi thickly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 iToni close to angle of 

 cell ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle 

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

 base only. 



2605, Hypnotype placens. 



Bij)hthei-a placens, Wlk. xi. 708 (1857). 



$. Head and thorax white mixed with black scales; sides of 

 palpi and frons mostly black ; tegulse pale olive at base shading 

 into rufous and with white tips ; tibiae and tarsi banded black and 

 white ; abdomen dirt}' white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 white tinged with olive-fuscous ; the costa with series of small black 

 spots ; an ill-defined black streak below base of cell forking at 

 extremity where it is met by an oblique striga from cell ; subbasal 

 line from costa to basal streak, angled outwards below costa ; an 

 antemedial black line forming two spots below costa, oblique and 

 waved to submedian fold, then strongly retracted with a white 

 mark in angle with black spot before it and greenish-black mark 

 below the retracted part, then double, the inner line bent inwards 

 as a short black streak above inner margin, the outer angled out- 

 wards to inner margin ; claviform represented by a rather heart 



