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middle, and thence extending close along the margin to anal angle ; there is also 



faint traces of a slender brown discal line and a lunate streak at end of the cell. Cilia 



of both wings pale greyish-ochi'eous. Body, palpi, and legs violaceous ochreous-brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Genus HIPOEPA. 



Hipoepa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B M. xvi. p. 188 (1858). 

 Wings moderately small : forewing elongated, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 angular in the middle ; cell extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at 

 one-half before end of the cell, second from close to end, trifid, fifth from end of the 

 cell, free; discocellular slender, concave in the middle, radials from near the ends ; 

 middle median from close to end of cell, lower at nearly one-half ; submedian curved 

 from the base : hindwing rather short, broad ; exterior margin convexly angular in 

 the middle ; cell one-half the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular 

 very slender ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body stout ; 

 palpi stout, compressed, laxly squamose, curved upward, third joint lanceolate, nearly 

 as lono- as the second, slightly pilose on its upper edge ; antennge ciliated with fine 

 slender lashes in male, setose in female ; legs stout, fore tibiiB and tarsi in male 

 densely and compactly clothed above, fore tibiae also laxly tufted beneath. 



HIPOEPA LAPSALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 6, ?). 

 Hipoepa lapsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 188 (1858). 

 Male and female. Purplish-brown : forewing crossed by an inwardly-oblique 

 ill-defined dai'ker brown undulated basal line, an antemedial, and a postmedial line ; 

 followed by a more prominent submarginal line, the latter being angulated outward 

 in the middle and outwardly bordered by a slender ochreous-white line ; between the 

 middle lines is a diffuse darker brown fascia : hindwing paler brown, with an indis- 

 tinct brown discal line, and a submarginal slender ochreous-white line, the latter 

 being angulated in the middle. Body, palpi, and legs pui'plish-brown, tuft on fore- 

 legs cinereous. 



Expanse xo inch. 



HYPOEPA FRACTALIS. 



Herminia fractalis, Guenee, Deltoides et Pyral. p. 60 (1854). 



Bertula raptalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 164 (1858), ^J. 



Male. Cinereous ochreous-brown : forewing with a transverse subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and a postmedial denticulated brown line, followed by a biangulated sub- 

 maro-inal line bordered by a pale cinereous outer line ; marginal points brown ; 

 between the middle lines is an inwardly-oblique diffused brown straight fascia : 

 hindwino" paler cinereous-brown, with an indistinct brown mark at end of the cell, 

 and two discal lines, the outer line being bent and pale bordered near the anal angle. 



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