1920] Holland, Lepidoptcra of the Congo 291 



Hypena Schrank 

 (595) 1. Hypena species (?) 



A single specimen, in rather poor condition, which I am unable to 

 refer to any species at present known to me but which I hesitate to 

 describe without better material was taken at Medje, August 5, 1910. 



Deinypena Holland 

 The genus Deinypena, the type of which is D. lacista Holland, is 

 divisible into two sections. The first is represented by D. lacista Holland, 

 D. lathetica Holland, and D. margine-punctata Holland, in which the 

 antennae of the males are heavily pectinate almost to the tip, the anten- 

 nae of the females being simple. The second section is composed of the 

 species geometroides Holland, apicata Hampson, and the species described 

 in the following paragraphs in which the antennae of the males are less 

 heavily pectinated for three-quarters of their length, the setae being 

 shorter and curving downwardly and inwardly, the antennae of the 

 females being simple. In the neuration of the wings there is no great 

 difference; the palpi are remarkably long, in the first section the third 

 joint being more heavily clothed with hair than in the second section. 

 I have not seen Deinypena triangularis Bethune-Baker, and cannot, 

 therefore, determine into which of the two sections of the genus that 

 species falls. 



(596) 1. Deinypena morosa, new species 



Plate XIII, Figure 18, d" 

 cf. Head, palpi, upper side of thorax and abdomen obscure chocolate-brown; 

 fore wings and hind wings chocolate-brown, darker at the base and slightly illuminated 

 on the outer half by a purplish iridescence ; crossed by an irregularly curved median 

 dark line, followed immediately by a parallel postmedian line, both of these lines curv- 

 ing backward basad near the costa; an obscure light point in the middle of the cell, 

 and an obscure reniform at the end of the cell outlined by light scales; there is a sub- 

 marginal series of fine white points extending from the apex to the inner margin; 

 the margins are defined by a very fine black line, accentuated inwardly by minute 

 white lines on the interspaces; the fringes are uniformly dark, not checkered. On the 

 under side the wings are pale brown; the legs and the under side of the body con- 

 colorous; the fore wing is crossed by a dark vertical antemedian line, a median line, 

 angulated at the end of the cell, and by a pale submarginal line which runs from the 

 apex somewhat diagonally toward the inner margin, which it does not quite reach. 

 The apex broadly whitish. The hind wing is crossed by three dark curved bands: a 

 median band crossing the end of the cell, a postmedian band, and a broader sub- 

 marginal band, all three of which are somewhat diffuse. Expanse, 45-50 mm. 



