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HYPINA LABATALIS (Plate 176, Fig. 6). 

 ITypnm hhatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 66 (1858). 

 Cinereous-brown : forewing sliglitly speckled witli black, and witli a slight 

 purplish tinge ; posterior border broadly pale brownish-ochreous, the medial area 

 from the costal to submedian vein occupied by a broad oblique quadrate blackish - 

 bordered dark brown band ; a prominent curved whitish streak from the apex, above 

 which are white-bordered black spots ; cell spots black ; marginal lunules blackish, 

 pale bordered : hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown. Thorax, head, and palpi 

 dark browu. 



Expanse tV inch. 



HYPENA QU.a:SITALIS. 

 Hi/pena qutvsifalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 58 (1858). 



Forewing dark ferruginous-brown, the basal area speckled with metallic green 

 scales ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique antemedial white-bordered black line, which 

 ends on the submedian vein ; an erect undulated postmedial white-bordered black 

 line, which is outwardly bordered by diffused wavy lilacine fasciee ; followed by a sub- 

 marginal pale line, which is denticulated with white at its costal end, and outwardly 

 bordered below the apex with white speckles ; marginal line brown, bordered with 

 white : hindwing paler brown, with a dark brown marginal line, which has a short 

 white inner streak on its middle ; cilia pale below the apex and before the anal angle. 

 Thorax, head, and palpi dark ferruginous-brown ; tarsi with pale bands ; abdominal 

 crests very dai'k brown. 



Expanse Iro inch. 



HYPENA ICOHICALIS (Plate 175, Fig. 9). 

 Hypma iconicalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 61 (1858). 



Dark purplish ferruginous-brown, with an opaline hue in some lights ; the basal 

 half darkest coloured in the male, the division being defined by a more or less distinct 

 whitish-speckled line, which is almost straight and erect ; also crossed by an indistinct 

 antemedial browu augulated line ; a small black spot at base of the cell, and in the 

 male another spot in middle of the cell, the latter being outwardly tipt with white ; 

 outer half of the wing sparsely black scaled ; with a submarginal series of white-tipt 

 black dentate spots ; some white jjoints on the costa before the apex : hindwing 

 duller coloured ; marginal line dark brown. Thorax dark fei'ruginous-brown, 

 opalescent ; head and palpi hoary. 



Expanse 1 to 1|- inch. 



HYPENA MANDATALIS. 

 Hypena manthxtalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 58 (185S). 

 Forewing pale purplish greyish-brown, glossy, speckled with dark brown scales ; 

 basal half dark purplish-brown, the division across the middle being by a slender 



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