196 NOCTIIID^. 



between the subbasal and ante medial lines ; reniform pure white ; 

 the lunulate postmedial line indistinct ; the submarginal line con- 

 sisting of an irregular series of dashes ; a marginal series of white 

 specks. Hind wing fuscous. Underside of fore wing with the 

 reniform wiiite ; hind wing whitish, with prominent dark cell-spot 

 and postmedial line ; outer area suffused with fuscous. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 38 millim. 



1669. Hypernsenia violacea, Butl. III. Het. vh, p. 54, pi. 127, fig. 5. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing dark purplish brown, the last with 

 faint traces of ante- and postmedial waved lines and medial and 

 submarginal diffused bands ; the orbicular and reniform barely 

 traceable. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous, the former with 

 the extremity red-brown. Underside with the postmedial line 

 more prominent. 



Hab. Dharmsala. Exp. 52-60 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 3rd joint long. 



1670. Hypernsnia flavicaudata, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 312; 



C. Sr S. no. 2256 a. 



2 • Pale violaceous brown with an ochreous tinge ; anal tuft 

 ochreous. Pore wing brown ; subbasal and antemedial waved lines, 

 between which are two diffused waved bands ; a medial diffused 

 band ; the postmedial waved line excurved beyond cell ; the sub- 

 marginal line irregularly waved and with a diffused band before it ; 

 a lunulate marginal line. Hind wing fuscous with an ochreous 

 tinge ; the costal area and outer margin ochreous. Underside with 

 a faint cell-spot and postmedial line to each wing. 



Hab. Thandiani, Punjab. Exp. 56-60 millim. 



Genus HERMONASSA. 



Hermonassa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 631 (1865). 



Type, H. consignata, "Wlk. 



Mange. Japan ; Himalayas. 



Differs from Agrotis in having the palpi upturned and clothed 

 with long hair below running out to a sharp point, the 3rd joint 

 reaching above vertex of head. Pore wing long and narrow, with 

 the apex rounded. Hind wings with veins 3 and 4 from cell, 6 and 

 7 stalked. 



1671. Hermonassa consignata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 632; C. fy S. 

 no. 2034. 

 Hermonassa lunata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 120 ; C. § S. no. 2037. 



Red-brown. Pore wing with a double waved subbasal line with 



