HYPENA. 433 
One example from Orizaba, captured in December 1887, and several from Atoyac, 
captured in April 1888; the former is duller than the others in colour. 
22. Hypena obditalis. 
Hypena obditalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 48 (¢)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Gerdnimo, Las 
Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson1); Panama, Chiriqui (Rzbde, in 
mus. Staudinger). 
Guatemalan specimens agree with Walker’s type in the National Collection; those 
from Mexico are paler in colour. 
23. Hypena ancara, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 10.) 
Primaries greyish-brown, darker brown along the outer margin, with a yellowish-brown zigzag line crossing 
the wing close to the base from the costal to the inner margin, beyond which in the middle of the cell is 
a minute black dot, and beyond the middle of the wing a rather wider yellowish-brown line, edged on the 
outer side with pale greyish-brown, extending from the costal margin near the apex to the middle of the 
inner margin; secondaries uniformly greyish-brown; the fringe of both wings brown, that of the prima- 
ries the darkest ; the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown, almost slate-coloured : head, antenne, 
palpi, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown, the legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Guatemata, Tamahu, San Gerdnimo, and Santa Barbara in Vera Paz (Cham- 
pion). 
Allied to H. obditalis, Walk., from which it may be at once distinguished by the 
straight oblique line on the primaries. The specimen from Tamahu is figured. 
24. Hypena lipara, sp.n. (Tab. XXXYV. fig. 11, s.) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries uniformly blackish-brown, the primaries crossed beyond the middle from the 
costal to the inner margin by a zigzag reddish-brown line; the underside of both wings greyish-brown : 
head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs blackish-brown. Expanse 1-3, inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
One specimen of this dull-coloured species was captured by Mr. Smith in September 
1888. 
25. Hypena hemonalis. 
Hypena hemonalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 228 (2)". _ 
Hypena sclerialis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 120. fig. 82, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 
no. 82 (¢)’. on, 
Hab. Guamanata, Volean de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); . Panama, 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
—AMazons?; Brazil. Oo 
Our Guatemalan specimens differ from Walker’s type in having the band crossing 
the primaries considerably wider, but those from Chiriqui agree well withit. The insect 
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