LOPHARTHRUM.—HYPERLOPHA. 19 
orange marbled with rufous except at apex. Underside yellow 
and pale reddish, with indistinct cell-spot; two postmedial and 
one submarginal line to each wing. 
Larva brown, with black specks and striz. 
Hab. Sikhim; Sylhet; Nilgiris; Andamans; Borneo. xp. 
50 millim. 
Genus HYPERLOPHA, nov. 
Type, H. cristifera, W1k. 
Range. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Burma. 
Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd 
long and naked; antenne with long cilia and bristles in male ; 
thorax with a high sharp tuft behind collar; abdomen smoothly 
scaled ; tibie slightly hairy. Fore wing with the costa arched ; 
the apex acute and produced; the outer margin angled at 
middle; the cilia crenulate. Hind wing with the outer margin 
rounded ; vein 5 from near middle of discocellulars. 
2757. Hyperlopha cristifera, Wik. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1071; C ¢ &. 
no. 2718. 
Catada epops, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 120, fig. 42. 
Zethes irrorata, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 113, pl. 165, fig. 12. 
Q. Pale grey; thorax with the extremity of scales brown. 
Fore wing with traces of seven sinuous lines; an indistinct reni- 
form mark; a chocolate band 
on the inner half of submar- 
ginal line; some chocolate 
marks on the margin. Hind 
wing with traces of post- 
medial and  submarginal 
lines. Underside with cell- 
spot, crenulate postmedial 
Fig. 7.—Hyperlopha cristifera, §. 4. and blotched submarginal 
lines. 
¢. Head and thorax thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a brown 
patch at base of abdomen, which is fuscous. Fore wing thickly 
irrorated with brown; the seven lines more distinct and brown ; 
the band on submarginal line less prominent. Hind wing 
fuscous. 
Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hap. 42 millim. 
2758. Hyperlopha compactilis, Swink. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 251, 
pl. 7, fig. 16. 
¢. Differs from cristifera in the vertex of head being ochreous 
and red; the tuft behind collar with rufous edges. Fore wing 
less irrorated with brown and the markings less distinct ; a large 
silvery patch on middle of inner area; the band on submarginal 
line well developed. 
Hab. Thyetmyo, Burma. Lvzp. 36 millini. 
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