508 noctuid^i. 



brown, much irrorated with black. Fore wing with the lines 

 almost or quite obsolete, the postmedial being most distinct ; the 

 black patches absent and only represented by a fuscous patch 

 beyond the cell, sometimes conjoined to a triangular shade on the 

 costa. 



Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon. Exp. 46 millim. 



2526. Hypaetra bubo, Hiibn. Zutr. iv, p. 13, figs. 633, 634. 



Hypsetra perficiens, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1412 ; C. $ S. no. 2647. 

 Hypsetra condita, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1413 ; C Sf S. no. 2649. 



Differs from noctuoides in the 

 head, thorax, and fore wing 

 being purplish grey. Fore wing 

 with the medial and outer areas 

 palest ; the black lunules on the 

 antemedial and postmedial lines 

 extremely large and produced at 

 their angles ; the lines more 

 Fig. <$®.-Hyp*tra bubo, tf, \. distinct and dentate ; some pale 



specks on the costa. Hmd wing 

 with a diffused pale streak near anal angle ; the cilia pale at apex 

 and anal angle ; underside with a medial maculate line. 



Hab. Shillong; Nilgiris ; Ceylon; Andamans. Exp. 56 millim. . 



*2527. Hypsetra? remigioides, Guen. Nod. iii, p. 230; C. 8? S. 

 no. 2607. 



Head and thorax fleshy grey ; abdomen yellow, reddish below. 

 Fore wing grey ; the costa and markings of costal area velvety 

 brown ; the antemedial line straight and oblique, with dark suffu- 

 sion inside it, and with a pale-edged black patch inside it on 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line waved, straight near costa ; 

 reniform large and indistinct, with a large bilobed patch below it, 

 from which three waved lines run to inner margin ; orbicular a 

 omall ring-spot ; the submarginal line irregularly dentate, with a 

 black speck on each nervule. Hind wing fulvous yellow, with an 

 indistinct submarginal fuscous band with a line above it near inner 

 margin. 



Hab. " Central India." Exp. 55 millim. 



B. Antennoe of male ivith long branches on the outer sides, very short 

 branches and long stiff bristles on the inner side, a tuft of hair 

 on upperside of shaft near base. 



2528. Hypaetra apicalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 405, pi. 33, fig. 7. 



Sphetta moorei, Cotes Sf Swinh. Cat. Moths Lid. p. 172 ; C. 8f S. 

 no. 1141. 



Head and collar whitish ; palpi fuscous at sides ; thorax purplish 

 fuscous ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, with very 



