HYPSA. 499 



edge. Hind wing fuscous with a blue-green sheen ; the veins and 

 inner area white ; a patch of black scales at end of cell. 



Hab. Throughout ]N T .E. India and Burma ; Java. Exp. 71-82 

 millim. 



1135. Hypsa butleri, Swinh. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 84. 



Differs from marmorea in the head and thorax being more or 

 less suffused with white ; one black spot on each tegula and only 

 one on vertex of thorax. Pore wing with the ground-colour much 

 paler. Hind wing white, with a black spot at end of cell, and a 

 marginal series of detached blue-black spots. Underside with blue- 

 green fascise and bands. 



Hab. Moulmein ; Penang. Exp. 70 millim. 



1136. Hypsa doininia, Cram. Pap. Exot. hi, pi. 263 a, b ; C. § S. 



no. 514. 

 Noctua chione, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii, p. 213. 



Differs from butleri in the head, thorax, and base of abdomen 

 being pure white. Pore wing pure white ; the basal black spots 

 present, but no orange patch. Hind wing with the blue-green 

 spots produced towards the base in the interspaces below the cell. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Assam ; S. India ; Burma ; Java. Exp. 76 

 millim. 



B. Palpi ivith the 3rd joint very long. 



1137. Hypsa monycha, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 131 c (1779) ; C. $ S. 



no. 521. 

 Noctua dania, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii, p! 216 (1781). 

 Bombyx silvandra, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 369 D ; C. fy S. no. 525. 

 Hypsa intacta, Wile. Cat. ii, p. 451. 

 Hypsa dicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 316. 

 Hypsa zehrina, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 815. 

 Aganais vitessoides, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii, 1879, p. 78. 

 Hypsa nicobarica, Swinh. Lep. Mus. Oxon. p. 87. 

 Hypsa venalba, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 598 : C. fy S. no. 527. 

 Hypsa semifusca, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix, p. 220. 

 Hypsa leuconeura, Butl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 161. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi with a black lateral 

 stripe on second joint and the third joint black ; a black spot on 

 tegulae ; a dorsal series of black spots on abdomen often expanding 

 into bands. Pore wing fuscous ; an indistinct basal orange patch 

 often suffused with fuscous, with two basal black spots and three 

 on its outer edge ; a broad white fascia from base to lower angle of 

 cell ; subcostal, median, and submedian nervures sometimes slightly 

 streaked with white. Hind wing white, with a fuscous spot at end 

 of cell ; a broad fuscous marginal band with irregular inner edge. 



The form silvandra has the white fascia of fore wing represented 

 by a white spot at lower angle of cell and the marginal band of 

 hind wing broad. In intacta from Java the fascia is narrow, in 



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