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the costa and connected by two suffused fuscous streaks along veins with 
the penultimate pair of costal dots; a lilac-whitish small spot on the 
dorsum before the tornus; an ill-defined fuscous subapical patch inter- 
rupted above, extending from below the penultimate costal dot to the 
middle of the termen, traversed in the middle by a longitudinal blackish 
line. Cilia along costa lilac-whitish, barred with dark fuscous opposite 
the dots, along the termen fuscous-whitish, faintly twice barred with 
fuscous, around the apex suffused with fuscous. Hind wing pale fuscous- 
grey; apex suffused with light fuscous. Cilia pale greyish-fuscous, with 
whitish tips and a sordid whitish-ochreous basal line. 
Gnathos gradually narrowed towards the apex. Basal projection of the 
sacculus large. Aedoeagus moderately long, with basal half bulbate. 
(Slide no. 973 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, November 23, 1939. One specimen. 
Hypatima cryptopluta spec. nov. (fig. 559) 
y.ovTiTOQ — concealed, nhovros = richness 
29 mm. Head white, vertex mixed with dark grey. Antenna white, 
ringed with dark grey, scape with broad basal and subapical black bands. 
Palpus white, irrorated with grey, basal segment pure white, with a 
narrow median grey ring; median segment with four black rings: first 
ring subbasal, fourth apical; with two broad truncate tufts below, tinged 
fuscous; terminal segment with two broad fuscous-grey rings irrorated 
with white, with two small black tufts on the upper edge. Thorax grey 
mixed with white laterally, apical half mixed with black, a moderate 
median white band, apex white. Abdomen glossy pale ochreous-greyish, 
valvae mixed with darker grey. Legs sordid white, marked above with 
black: anterior femur with a subapical spot, anterior tibia with two, 
median with three irregular spots, basal segment of anterior and median 
tarsus black except the apex, the second and third segments black at 
base, posterior tarsus irrorated with fuscous-grey. Fore wing with veins 
7 and 8 stalked, 6 separate; elongate, rather narrow, broadest at 1 / 4 , 
thence gradually narrowed, costa curved anteriorly, appearing rounded- 
prominent at 1 / 3 , almost straight posteriorly; apex rounded, termen 
rounded, oblique. White, disc anteriorly slightly suffused with pale 
ochreous-olive, irrorated and partially suffused with greyish, fuscous and 
black, these markings with strong blue opalescense in certain lights. Base 
of the costa pure white, extreme edge blackish; anterior 3 / 5 of the costa 
smooth, from beyond the base irrorated with greyish and fuscous, with 
five dark grey spots; first spot bey r ond base, ill-defined, first to fourth 
tolerably equidistant, fourth and fifth spots approximated, separated by 7 a 
narrow white transverse streak, both somewhat elongate, larger than 
other spots ; posterior 2 / g of the costa ciliate, white, with four equidistant 
