SCOPELODES. — HYPHOItMA. 375 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 6 and 7 stalked in both sexes. 



819. Scopelodes unicolor, Westw. Nat. Libr. xxxvii, p. 222, pi. 28, fig. 2. 

 Scopelodes palpalis, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1105 ; C. ty S. no. 1266. 

 Scopelodes vulpina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 73, pi. 3, fig. 22 ; C. §• S. 



no. 1271. 

 Bethura minax, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 173. 

 Nyssia micacea, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 481. 



Differs from sericea in the palpi, head, thorax, and fore wing 

 being redder brown ; hind wing uniform pale yellow ; abdomen 

 more orange. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam ; Java ; Borneo. Exp., S 44, $ 60 millim. 



820. Scopelodes coatracta, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1105. 



S . Palpi blackish, the base of brush pale. Head and thorax 

 dark brown ; abdomen blackish, the sides and extremity clothed 

 with golden-yellow hairs. Wings very dark brown, somewhat 

 darker at apex of fore wing and inner margin of hind wing. 

 Hah. China ; Sikhim. Exp. 37 millim. 



Genus HYPHOKMA. 

 Hyphemia, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 493 (1865). 



Type, H. minax, Wlk. 



Range. IS. China; Sikhim. 



2 • Antennae simple. Palpi with no terminal brush of hairs. 

 Hind tibia with a termiual pair of spurs. Fore wing with vein 7 

 from end of cell, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 from before the angle. Ab- 

 domen with long lateral and ventral tufts of hair. 



821. Hyphorma minax, Wlk. Cat. xxxii. p. 493. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the vertex of thorax 

 and basal segments of abdomen deep red, the tufts of hair on 



Fig. 254. — Hyphorma minax, 2- \- 



abdomen pale at sides and below. Fore wing silky red-brown ; an 

 oblique dark line from the costa before the apex to lower angle of 



