Hypocala violacea is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879.

It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.

Sri Lankan specimens have black markings on dorsal side of hindwings and ventral side of forewings are rather narrow.

[1] [2] The larvae feed on Diospyros species.

This article on a moth of the subfamily Hypocalinae is a stub.