HYPOSICCIA; PARASICCIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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At the costa 3 black spots, from the first of which traces of an antemeclian line proceed, whilst from the third 
a row of dull dots proceed (the 2nd from the proximal margin in the shape of a streak); at the cell-end a 
small black spot and above the middle of the cell a black dot; submarginal line hazy, thin, on it there are small 
blackish dots; a blackish dot on the whitish fringes near the apex and a similar one about in the middle. Hind- 
wings light brown. Under surface whitish, forewings clouded dark; hindwings with a blackish discal dot and 
a dark band behind it. 22 mm. Formosa, at an altitude of 1000 ft., in August. 
S. albisparsa Hmps. (17 k) has dark brown forewings speckled whitish; in the middle of the cell alb is puma. 
a black dot, a white one before the black discal luna; the posterior transverse line is distally dotted white. 
Assam. 
S. tenebrosa Moore (17k) is smaller, more brownish-grey, the white dots are absent; otherwise the tenebrosu. 
species is marked very much like the preceding. Hindwing in the whitish, hi the $ pale blackish-brown. India. 
S. fulvocincta Hmps. (17 k) is the largest species. Forewings greyish-brown with basal, anterior, fulvocinctu. 
middle and posterior, dentate, double, black transverse stripes, which are filled up with a reddish olive colour; 
at the cell-end a black luna, fringes brown speckled with white. Hindwings brownish-grey with lighter fringes. 
Nilgiris, Madura. 
49. Genus : Hyposiccia Hmps. 
Also with erect palpi though not reaching the vertex; the tibial spurs are shorter. The middle radial 
vein of the forewing rises from the same spot with the lower. 
H. amnaea Swinh. (17 k) looks somewhat like Parasiccia maculifascia (17 k), but it is smaller. The amnaea 
forewings are white, with 2 small black spots in the basal area, behind them is an undulate,’ partly interrupted 
anterior transverse line, in the middle of the cell and at the cell-end black maculae; behind them a double 
transverse line filled up with black dusting, the dusting being absent between the 1st median vein and the 
sub median fold; before and on the margin there is besides one transverse row of dots each. Hindwing blackish- 
brown with a dark discal dot and postmedian line. Assam. 
H. abraxina Rothsch. <$ like a small, dull Abraxas grossulariata in which all the yellow has disappeared, dbraxina. 
Antennae dark grey, head dirty white, thorax dirty white, with anteriorly two black spots, and one at the 
extreme posterior end of the thorax; abdomen drab with a very large anal tuft. Forewing greyish-white, along 
the costa a row of small black spots, a dot at the base and two small subbasal spots, an antemedian black zigzag 
line, with a black cell-spot, a double, postmedian, undulate line of small, black, almost confluent spots, between 
there is a drab band. Antemarginal and marginal rows of small black spots. Hindwings drab, cell-spot and 
margin darker. Length of forewings: 15 mm. Khasia Hills; taken in April. 
H. mesozonata Hmps. (17 i) is considerably smaller. Forewings grey, basal area, the space between mesozonata. 
the middle and posterior transverse lines and before the margin is filled up with an olive-brown colour. Hind¬ 
wings blackish-brown, in the $ darker. Fringes light grey. Assam. 
H. dentata Wil. is allied to mesozonata ; head and thorax dark brown, abdomen lighter; forewings dentata. 
whitish, with a light brown tint over it; basal third dark brown, hardly to be separated from a dark brown, 
dentate antemedian line; median, and postmedian line dark brown, dentate, the space between both covered 
with a dark tint, at the cell-end a black, curved spot, the median line there distally flawed; in the cell a dot; 
submarginal line dark brown, interrupted, the broadest towards the costa; fringes whitish, in front of them 
a row of dark brown dots. Hindwings dark with lighter fringes. Under surface dark, costal and distal margins 
of the forewing as well as the fringes of all the wings lighter. 18 mm. One taken in May near Tainan, Formosa. 
50. Genus: Parasiccia Hmps. 
Distinguished from the two following genera of a very similar structure by the longer palpi being bent 
up and reaching to the vertex, and by the much longer tibial spurs. On the forewing the middle radial vein 
rises above the lower cell-angle. 4 species belong to the palearctic region, purely Indo-Australian are only 2. 
P. maculifascia Moore (17 k) shows several transverse rows of black dots on the white forewings; maculifas- 
the middle and posterior rows are connected by blackish-brown dusting. Hindwings whitish, towards the margin 
darkened brownish with a middle spot and an indistinct postmedian line which becomes more prominent beneath. 
Sikkim. 
