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with dark brown. Fore wings mottled light and fuscous brown; a 

 subbasal black streak on costa, and a spot below cell; antemedial line 

 dentate, black; a fuscous medial shade; a white spot at end of cell 

 crossed by a fuscous smuous line; a fuscous postmedial line, dentate 

 beyond cell, incurved below it; subterminal white points on veins, 

 faintly coimected by a whitisli line; terminal fuscous lunules on inter- 

 spaces. Hind wings grayish brown ; dark terminal lunules ; traces of 

 postmedial and subterminal dentate white lines near inner margin. 

 Hind wings below white irroratcd with brown; a dark discal spot; a 

 brown postmedial line, and fainter subterminal shade; an interrupted 

 terminal shade. 



Eximnse. — 18 mm. 



//a&itoi.— Santiago, Cuba. 



Type.— Gilt. No. 19826, U.S.N.M. 



This species differs from typical NeoJierminia in having a crenulate 

 fringe m front on jomts 2 and 3 of palpi. 



Genus HYPENULA Grote. 



Hypniula Gkote, Can. Ent., vol. S, 187G, p. 27. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved reaching well above head; second joint 

 frmged in front and behind; third joint less than half the length of 

 second, heavily fringed behind, shortly fringed in front. Antemiae 

 pubescent cQiate. Fore tibiae with long narrow sheath. Fore wings: 

 Veins 3, 4, 5 apart; 6 near upper angle; 7, 8, and 9, 10 from areole; 

 11 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 from lower angle or very 

 shortly stalked; 5 well above angle; 6 and 7 very shortly stalked. 



Type of genus. — Hypemda opacalis Grote, which sinks as a 

 synonym of cacuminalis (Ilypena) Walker,^ = 11 erminia hiferalis 

 Walker.^ 



The following species also belongs in this genus: 



Hypenula complectalis (Blepiina) Guenee, Delt. et Pyral., 1854, 

 p. 6S = Ble2)tinaJiesalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 1858, p. 121. 



HYPENULA DELEONA, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings dark brown, the abdomen and fore wings 

 usually tinged with purple. Fore wings: Antemedial line wavy, light 

 brown, partly irrorated with white, and outwardly finely edged with 

 black; orbicular an indistinct light brown spot, sometimes a white 

 point; reniform narrow, slightly incurved, light broAvn with a wliite 

 point at either end, sometimes filled in with white; postmedial fine, 

 black, lunidar dentate, outwardly edged with light brown; very faint 

 traces of a subterminal broken line; terminal black points; cilia fuscous 

 gray. Hind wings darlv brown; traces of fuscous medial and termi- 



1 Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 1859, p. 37, 2 Idem, vol. 16, 1859, p. 237. 



