HYPENA. 89 
2970. Hypena nigrescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350; C. § S. 
no. 2126. 
Hypena herbigrada, Swink. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 416. 
Reddish fuscous brown. Fore wing with traces of an ante- 
medial curved line; a speck in cell and another at end of it; a 
postmedial waved line from costa before apex, incurved below 
end of cell and reaching middle of inner margin. Hind wing 
dark fuscous. 
One specimen is very pale with the area between the ante- and 
postmedial lines of fore wing suffused with black ; another has the 
fore wing pale as far as the antemedial line, and another has a 
black patch on the antemedial line below cell; others have ferru- 
ginous patches on the postmedial line, and traces of waved sub- 
marginal line and marginal series of specks. 
Hab. Bombay ; Mahableshwar. xp. 28 millim. 
(2971. Hypena indicatalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 61. 
~~" Hypena leesalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 62; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
pl. 175, fig. 10; C. & S. no. 2890. 
Hypena semiclusalis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1511. 
Hypena velatipennis, Buti. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, 1875, p. 410. 
Hypena tortuosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 188; C. & S. no. 2918. 
Hypena cidarioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 189; C. & S. no. 2867. 
Hypena persimilis, Hmpsn. Lil. Het. viii, p. 94, pl. 147, fig. 13. 
Hypena argialis, Snellen, Tyd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 118. 
Differs from cognata in having the basal haif of the fore wing 
dark purplish brown; a small white lunule at end of ceil; the 
postmedial line incurved from the upper of its two angles to the 
inner margin ; three sinuous lines on the outer area; a dark lower 
edge to the curved streak. 
A form from the Khasis has the basal area of fore wing rufous ; 
the outer area with dark striz; one sinuous line, and the apical 
streak obscure. 
Hab. Natal; Japan; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; 
Borneo; Java; Celebes. Hap. 30 millim. 
2972. Hypena assimilis, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 93, pl. 147, fig. 6. 
Differs from indicatalis in having the basal area of fore wing 
pale as far as the antemedial line which is oblique, thus leaving 
a dark triangular patch between the ante- and postmedial lines; a 
large patch of dark suffusion below the apical streak. 
Hab. Nilgiris. Hap. 28 millim. 
2973. Hypena jocosalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 57; Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, 
pl. 166, fig. 6; C. & S. no, 2886. 
Differs from assimilis in the postmedial line of fore wing being 
bent inwards towards the base from vein 2 to inner margin, as 
also are the two indistinct lines beyond it. 
Hab. Ceylon. Hap. 30 millim. 
