3Q4 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus 6. HYPENODES. 



Antennae faintly ciliated, tufted at the base ; palpi pro- 

 jecting, thickly tufted, the third joint long, slender and 

 curved up ; eyes naked, without lashes ; head depressed ; 

 thorax and abdomen very slender, thinly scaled, smooth ; 

 legs normal, fore wings narrowly triangular. 



We have only two species, the larva? of which are obscure 

 in their habits, and very little known. The perfect insects 

 are readily discriminated. 



A. Fore wings pale brown ; middle area darker, bordered 

 outside by an oblique black line edged with white. 



H. albistrigalis, 



A. 2 Fore wings pale brown with a flat brown triangle on 



the middle of the costa. H. costccstrigalis 



1. H. albistrigalis, Gn. Stn. ; albistrigatus, Raw. 

 Steph. Wd. — Expanse f inch. Small and very slender; fore 

 wings narrow, truncate, pale umbreous with a darker central 

 band, edged outwardly by a black line bordered with white, 

 beyond it is a pale space. Hind wings brownish-white. 



Antennas of the male slender, simple, but rather coarsely 

 ciliated, pale brown ; palpi slender, long and sharply pointed, 

 porrected but the tips curved up, brown ; legs all long, rather 

 naked ; eyes black ; head and thorax smooth, pale brown, 

 the latter thin and weak ; abdomen unusually slender, pale 

 greyish-brown ; on the back of the basal segment is a dark 

 brown dot or raised tuft of scales ; anal tuft very thin. Fore 

 wings narrow, particularly so at the base, costa gently 

 arched ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin short, 

 scarcely curved, but rather bent in the middle ; anal angle 

 well defined; dorsal margin straight ; colour pale umbreous: 

 near the base two short black streaks seem to suggest the 

 basal line ; first line partial, oblique, somewhat indented, 

 very slender, black ; second line also oblique in the same 

 direction — outward from the dorsal margin — deeper black and 



