. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYPER^TEOTIA. 557 to near medial line, the costal area except towards base and the area just before medial line black-brown mixed with pale purplish ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; ante- medial line rej^resented by double very oblique black striae from costa ; a faint pale rufous discoidal bar ; a diffused blackish medial shade, oblique from costa to below anple of cell; the medial area beyond the cell rufous mixed with violaceous white to the curved. Fig. 152.—Hyperntrotia albicincta, (^. }. rufo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYPER^TEOTIA. 557 to near medial line, the costal area except towards base and the area just before medial line black-brown mixed with pale purplish ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; ante- medial line rej^resented by double very oblique black striae from costa ; a faint pale rufous discoidal bar ; a diffused blackish medial shade, oblique from costa to below anple of cell; the medial area beyond the cell rufous mixed with violaceous white to the curved. Fig. 152.—Hyperntrotia albicincta, (^. }. rufous postmedial line ; postmedial area violaceous white; a rather diffused black-brown subterminal line expanding towards costa ; terminal area rufous with a series of black striaj just before termen defined on inner side by white; cilia rufous mixed with blackish. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia ochreous ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diflused subterminal line. JIab. Assam, Khasis, 1 J type. Ea-2}. 24 millim. 5836. Hyperstrotia inordinata. (Plate CLXV. fig. 20.) Acontia inordinata, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc , Zool. vii. p. 50 (1864). Tarache procrita, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 621 (1905). 5 . Head and tegulae red-brown, the frons and basal joint of antennae in front pure white ; thorax white mixed with red-brown • abdomen red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous brown, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing dark red-brown irrorated with blackish ; the basal area suffused with white with blackish subbasal line, excurved below costa and ending at the blackish streak in base of sub7iiedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, waved from costa to submedian fold, then incurved and with blackish band on its inner edge ; a diffused white band beyond it, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved; a V-shaped black
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