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oblique discal edge being defined bj a slightly curved white-bordered black line ; 

 outer border of the wing traversed by two whitish-speckled luuular fascife, the outer 

 fascia with indistinct black-speckled points ; marginal and intercilial line brown : 

 hindwing duller brownish-cinereous ; cilia cinereous-white. Body brownish-cinereous; 

 palpi hoary. 



Expanse yv to 1 inch. 



OPHIUCHE MISTACALIS (Plate 175, Fig. 6, 9 ). 



Hciininia mistacalis, Giicuee, Deltoides et Pyralites, p. 60 (1854). 

 Hypena pactalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 64 (1858). 



Forewing pale cinereous, speckled with brown; crossed hj four equidistant, 

 outwardly-oblique, indistinct, pale-bordered brown lines, the three inner lines slightly 

 bent inward at the costal ends, the outer line straight, diffused, extending to apical 

 angle, and bordered on its outside by a parallel slender brown line : hindwing and 

 body pale cinereous-brown ; marginal line dusky brown. Thorax and palpi speckled 

 with cinereous. 



Expanse to to tu inch. 



OPHIUCHE OBACERALIS (Plate 175, Fig. 5, ^J). 



Hypena obaceralis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xvi. p. 53 (1858). 

 1 Hypena obliqualis, KoUar, Hugels Kaschmir, iv. p. 491 (1844). 



Cinereous-brown : forewing indistinctly flecked with minute darker brown strigte ; 

 crossed by a slender brown angulated erect antemedial line, and a whitish-bordered 

 brown inwardly- oblique almost straight discal line ; a black orbicular spot ; a few 

 white-bordered black scales linearly disposed below the cell, and a more or less 

 defined submarginal macular series of black and white scales : hindwing, body, and 

 palpi duller cinereous-brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse, <J 1, ? to inch. 



" Common at Colomba " (Machwood). 



Genus NOLASENA. 

 N-olasena, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 981 (1857). 

 Male. Forewing rather short, somewhat broad, almost sti-aight in front, exterior 

 margin hardly oblique, slightly uneven; cell two-fifths the length; first subcostal 

 one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell 

 and slightly touching third near its base; discocellular concave, bent very close to 

 each end, radials from the angles ; middle median about one-sixth, lower nearly 

 one-half ; submedian curved from the base : hindwing short, exterior margin convex, 

 slightly uneven ; cell one-half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 



