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marked; the orbicular round, sometimes reduced to a slight black streak representing the lower edge, or 
quite obsolete; hind wing fuscous brown, or ochreous tinged with fuscous; the fringe ochreous. New 
Zealand: Marlborough, Blenheim, Mt. Arthur, Mt. Hutt. 
The species composing the remaining genera, except the last, are remarkable, on the whole, for the comparative 
simplicity of their coloration and markings; the ground colour varying from ochreous to brown and the suffusion from 
grey to rufous; the stigmata are often obsolete, and the lines reduced to series of spots on the veins; in a large propor¬ 
tion there is a tendency to series of light and dark longitudinal streaks. The larvae all feed on Gramineaceae, hybernating 
small, and feeding up in the spring; in many cases, perhaps generally in warmer climates, there is a summer brood as well. 
31. Genus: Hyp hi hare Hbn. 
Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with hair in front of second segment; 
head and thorax roughly haired; antennae of J ciliated; abdomen of £ with a pair of lateral tufts of 
long hair from base. Larva feeding on grasses; lying concealed by day; hybernating, and pupating in spring; 
in some cases double-brooded. Type H. albipuncta F. 
In the first 10 species the wings of the G on the underside are g 1 o ss ed 
with golden or silvery scales. 
H. distincta Moore (= exanthemata Moore) (11 e, f). Forewing yellow, densely dusted and striated distinct a. 
with rufous; the costal edge dark; inner and outer lines dark, conversely lunulate-dentate, and approximated 
on inner margin; the outer incurved below vein 4; a line of points on the veins beyond it, also bent at vein 4; 
subterminal indistinct, dark; orbicular and reniform stigmata small, yellow, with some rufous scales on 
them and ill-defined, the reniform with a slight white streak at end of median nervure; hindwing ochreous, 
suffused with fuscous, except towards costa and inner margin; ventral tufts black. Occurs in the Punjab, 
at Kulu, Sultanpur, Dharmsala, and in Sikkim and Assam, N. India. In this last locality a form occurs — ab. 
umbrosa ab. nov. (11 f), in which a broad brown shade crosses the wing beyond reniform stigma, at the base umbrosa. 
of which the white mark is very conspicuous. On the other hand ab. moderata ab. nov. (Ilf) is uniform modemtci. 
dull yellow with grey striation, without any trace of dark fulvous costal shading or lines; of this form there 
is 1 $ from Shillong, Assam in the Tring Museum. 
H. obscura Moore (= rudis Moore, nepos Leech) (11 f). Forewing greyish rufous thickly dusted with obscura. 
dark; a slight pale streak on median vein and white dot at lower angle of cell, with a fuscous patch beyond 
it; an outer row of black dots on veins; terminal area sometimes slightly darker; veins towards margin 
paler; hindwing fuscous; ventral tufts black. Ivhasia and Naga Hills, Assam; Kulu, Sultanpur, Simla, Dharm¬ 
sala, in the Punjab; Java, N. Luzon; New Guinea. The ab. umbridisca ah. nov. (Ilf, g), from Assam and E. umbridisca. 
Pegu, is smaller, greyer, without any rufous tinge; the reniform is followed by a quadrate fuscous blotch and 
has no white dot at its lower end. 
H. binigrata Warr. (11 g). Of the same size and greyish drab colour as obscura ab. umbridisca, bimgrata. 
the cell only being pale ochreous, unspeckled, while the rest of wing is dusted with dark; inner and outer lines 
double, marked by dark vein-spots; reniform stigma pale, with a black spot at lower end, followed between 
the bases of vein 3 and 5 by a square black blotch with outer edge diffuse; subterminal line unmarked; 
a row of small round black terminal dots; fringe dark grey; the costal streak is often dull grey; hindwing 
dark fuscous; paler towards base, with cell spot and veins dark, and the fringe whitish; underside of both wings 
in $ silvery whitish. Ivhasia Hills, Assam. Distinguished by the black spot at lower end of reniform. 
H. laniata Hmps. (11 g). Forewing white, with a pink tinge and black irroration; a slight black laniata. 
streak below base of cell; the veins defined by fine brown streaks; the terminal interspaces streaked with 
brown; median nervure white at extremity; a black point in lower angle of cell; an outer series of 
dark points ou veins; a brown shade from termen below apex, followed by a row of black points on veins 
5 to 1; terminal black points; hindwing Avhite tinged with brown; fringe white, the base brown from apex to 
vein 2; underside of both wings brilliant silvery, the apical area of hindwing clothed with long down turned 
fuscous hairs. Recorded from Sikkim; also from the Naga Hills, Assam and Java. 
H. inframicans Hmps. (11 g, h). Forewing violaceous grey; costal and inner marginal areas irrorated iniramicans. 
with black, the cell and space below it pale golden brown; a blackish streak in base of submedian fold and an 
oblique one above inner margin before middle; median vein white towards extremity, slightly hooked on 
discocellular; veins 3, 4, also streaked with white, the interspaces above them with fine black streaks; a 
slight outer line, bent outwards below costa and obliquely curved; a pale oblique streak from apex; an ill- 
defined rufous patch between veins 4 and 2; terminal black points; hindwing white, the terminal area 
tinged with fuscous frojn apex to vein 2. Occurs in the Punjab, N. W. India, in Ceylon and Burma. 
H. hamifera Walk. (= subnitens Swinh.) (11 h). Forewing violaceous white, tinged with ochreous 
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