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fine brown line; a white point in cell circled with black; au apical black spot 

 inwardly shaded with white; an irregular subterniinal row of small white spots, 

 the one nearest costa inwardly shading a black spot. Underneath dnll brown ; a 

 terminal and a subterniinal dark spot above vein 7 on primaries. Expanse 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Hypena. drucealis. — Light grey-brown. Primaries: a large blackish 

 brown space resting on costal margin, inwardly edged by a buff line, which is 

 outwardly oblique from costa at one-fourth from base to middle of submedian 

 vein, and is outwardly edged by the pale outer line, which is oblique from costa 

 at its middle, incurved between veins 5 and 2, then inwardly oblique to inner 

 margin ; a dark grey costal shade towards apex ; outer margin darker above vein 

 3; a broad subterniinal greyish shade. Expanse 30 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 

 • This is the Hypena manalis of the Biologia, but it is not Walk- 

 er's species. 



Hypena castricalis. — Body and secondaries dark brown. Primaries 

 violaceous brown ; lines dark olivaceous brown ; inner line wavy to median, then 

 once curved outwardly to inner margin ; outer line ontcurved at end of cell, and 

 less so above submedian, outwardly shaded with some white scales; a subtermi- 

 nal shade interrupted by the lines and outwardly shaded with white;. a dark ter- 

 minal line preceded by small white spots between the veins; some lilacine irror- 

 ation on costa and apex; a white point in cell inwardly edged with black. 

 Underneath dull brown. Primaries: the costa irrorated with white; a small 

 white subterminal spot above 7. Secondaries: a black discal point; a dark me- 

 dian line, and a dark subterminal line. Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



Hypena tepecalis. — Head, thorax and primaries light brown, slightly 

 olivaceous. Abdomen and secondaries duller brown. Primaries: lines as in H. 

 castricalis, darker brown, but with fewer white irrorations ; the subterminal with 

 a few greyish irrorations outwardly; terminal dark line preceded by lighter 

 brown spots. Underneath a black subterminal spot above and below vein 7. Ex- 

 panse 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Coatepec, Mexico. 



Hypena calistalis. — Head, thorax and primaries light brown, with 

 darker irrorations. Abdomen and secondaries greyer brown. Primaries : lines 

 darker brown ; inner line fine, once curved below cell ; outer line curved around 

 end of cell, then faintly wavy to inner margin, outwardly shaded with lighter 

 brown ; a black point in cell ; a minute dark crescent at end of cell around a grey 

 point; small subterminal dark spots partly shaded with grey; a thick terminal 

 black line. Secondaries: a dark terminal line; fringe paler, divided by a dark 

 line. Underneath no apical nor subterminal spots on primaries. Expanse 2(J mm. 



Ha bitat. — Tri u idad . 



• TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXX. (22) JUNE. 1904. 



