222 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



tlie upper basal two-tliirds of the wing, the patch bordered by a slender white outer 

 line ; the outer border of the patch with a rounded projecting angle in the middle of 

 the disc, the lower border ascending obhquely upwards to near base of the cell ; 

 across the disc is a submarginal series of indistinct black points with white speckled 

 tips, and a subapical curved dentated black streak : hindwing and abdomen ferruginous- 

 brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse IfV inch. 



Genus HYPENA. 

 Hijpena, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii.2, p. 163 (1802); Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett, p. 345 ; Treitscbke, 

 Sehmett, Eur. vi. 2, p. 311. 



Forewing rather short, somewhat narrow ; costa arched from the base, apex 

 acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and almost angular in the middle ; orbicular 

 and reniform spot composed of a small patch of raised scales ; cell narrow, extending 

 nearly two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the 

 cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, third from below second immediately above end of 

 cell, fourth at more than half beyond base of third, fifth from end of cell and slightly 

 touching third near its base; discocellular sUghtly concave in middle, bent near 

 each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from about one-twelfth, lower at 

 one-third; submedian recurved: hindwing very broad, apex somewhat produced, 

 exterior margin convex below the middle ; cell very broad, extending half the length ; 

 costal and subcostal joined together to one-third length of the cell ; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular slender, radial from below its middle ; two upper 

 medians on a footstalk at one-sixth beyond end of the cell, lower about one-third ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout ; frontal tuft projecting 

 beyond the head ; palpi porrect, laxly clothed with strong coarse long scales, com- 

 pressed, second joint extending its entire length beyond the head, third joint ascending, 

 broad, one-fifth the length of second, pointed at the tip ; a dorsal tuft at base of 

 abdomen ; antennas minutely pectinated, with short slender lashes in male ; setose in 

 female ; legs moderately slender, compactly clothed, spurs long. 

 Type, H. rostralis. 



HYPENA MOLPUSALIS. 



Ilrjpena Molpusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 844 (1859). 

 Hypena aubapicalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1137 (1865). 

 Ilypcna sparsalis, Walker, id. p. 1511. 



Purplish greyish-brown : forewing blackish speckled ; crossed by an irregular 

 zigzag antemedial black speckled duplex line, and a postmedial line, the latter 

 angulated outward beyond the cell and on the lower median vein ; both lines with 

 cinereous speckled border ; a submarginal whitish speckled denticulated Hue, and a 



