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marginal row of whitish bordered black lunules ; orbicular and reniform mark puncti- 

 form, black : hindwing paler, with a blackish marginal line. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and legs purplish greyish-brown; abdomen and tarsi with pale cinereous bands. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



HYPENA JOCOSALIS. 

 Hypena jocosalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 57 (1858) 



Forewing purplish cinereous-brown, speckled with darker brown scales ; with a 

 dark brown longitudinal fascia extending from base below the cell, widening across the 

 disc, and curving upward to below the apes, the fascia crossed by an antemedial 

 zigzag purpHsh-cinereous duplex line, and an inwardly oblique, postmedial interlined 

 purplish-cinereous band, beyond which is a lower submarginal cinereous line; 

 two dentate black subapical spots, and a marginal blackish line ; a black orbicular 

 dot and a pale reniform streak : hindwing and abdomen pale brown, with a blackish 

 marginal line. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs purplish-cinereous, brown speckled. 



Expanse ItV inch. 



HYPENA COLOMBANA (Plate 176, Fig. 8). 



Male. Purplish greyish-brown : forewing crossed by an antemedial pale bordered 

 black line, which is acutely bent outward at the median vein, the upper end of the 

 line indistinct ; an inwardly oblique slightly waved discal black line with a parallel 

 pale outer bordered line ; lower half of the area between the lines dark brown ; three 

 submarginal waved brownish fascite, which are dilated into a curved subapical dark 

 brown streak, above which are two white tipt black spots ; marginal lunular line 

 black : hindwing, and abdomen paler purplish greyish-brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Near to H. jocosalis. 



HYPENA BIANGULATA (Plate 176, Fig. 9). 



Male. Purplish-brown : forewing crossed by an inwardly-oblique white-bordered 

 black antemedial line ending on the median vein ; a discal inwardly-oblique pale 

 bordered black line, which is convexly angulated at end of the cell and above the 

 submedian ; the interspace between the lines dark brown, this colour being most 

 intense immediately below the cell ; a black dot in middle of the cell, and a slight 

 reddish lunule at its end ; at the apex are two white-tipt black spots, below which 

 is a subapical curved dark brown pale-bordered streak, ending in two lower brown 

 waved submarginal fasciae ; marginal luuular line brown : hindwing and abdomen 

 paler purplish-brown. 



Expanse Itu inch. 



Nearest to H. gonospilalis. 



