218 GEOMETRID A. 
Genus HYPEPHYRA. 
Hypephyra, Butl. I]. Het. vii, p. 101 (1889). 
Type, H. terrosa, Butl. 
Range. N.W. Himalayas. 
Palpi hairy and reaching beyond the sharp frontal tuft ; antenne 
of male ciliated ; hind tibie dilated. Fore wing with vein 3 from 
before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked, from before upper angle; 10 
absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 
3278. Hypephyra terrosa, Buti. Ill. Het. vii, p. 101, pl. 135, fig. 17. 
Palpi grey, irrorated with fuscous; the wings irrorated with 
_ bluish silvery scales; antemedial and medial simuous rufous lines ; 
a dark spot at end of cell; a crenulate postmedial black line with 
some rufous inside it and some dark sutfusion with dentate outer 
edge beyond it on inner area. Hind wing with black speck at end 
of cell, and indistinct waved antemedial, medial, and submarginal 
lines. Underside fulvous yellow, with black cell-spots and post- 
medial line with black patch beyond it on inner area of fore wing 
and black irroration on hind wing. 
Hab. Simla; Dharmsala. Hvp., ¢ 46, 9 40 millim. 
Genus HYPERYTHRA. 
Hyperythra, Gwen. Phal. i, p. 99 (1857). 
Syrrhodia, Hibn. Verz. p. 300 (P 1818), non descr. 
Petrodava, Wilk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1656 (1862). 
Pseuderythra, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 204. 
Type, H. lutea, Cram. 
Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions; New 
Guinea. 
Palpi hairy and reaching well beyond the frons ; a sharp frontal 
tuft; antenne of male bipectinated to two-thirds length; fore 
tibia with the process large. Fore wing of male typically with a — 
slight fovea below base of median nervure; the apex somewhat | 
acute; vein 3 from angle of cell; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, from near 
upper angle ; 11 free. Hind wing with the outer margin crenu- 
late; vein 3 from angle of cell. | 
In Syrrhodia, the W. Indian and 8. American section, the males 
have a large membranous vesicle at base of hind wing below, and 
no fovea to fore wing. 
Secr. II. (Hyperythra). Males with the costa of hind wing highly 
arched; a very long tuft of hair from base of cell lying ina 
fold above vein 6; the cell very short and open. 
3279. Hyperythra lutea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, p. 157, pl. 370, figs. 
O,D; €.§ S. no. 3148. % val 
Phalzna flavaria, Fubr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 187. 
Phalzena flavata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, 2, p. 169. Ys wa 
