•404 NOCTUID MOTHS 



116. Hypena laesalis Wlkr. (?) 



Hypena laesalis Wlkr., Spec. Lep. Ins., xvi, p. 62, 1858, Hindostan. 



Mt. Miu-ud, 6OOO--60OO feet, October— 1 cf- 

 In "Moths of India" this species is sunk to H. indicatalis 

 Wlkr. (Ceylon). It is quoted as occurring also in Natal, 

 Japan, Burma, Borneo, Java, Celebes. The genns Hypena 

 is in such confusion in the National Collection as well as 

 in the Joicey collection, and there are so many species 

 somewhat of this type that this cannot be regarded as a 

 certain identification, although the above cf is in quite 

 good condition. 



117. Hypena brevicella sp. n. 



cT, 36 mm. 



Very nearly agrees with some forms of H. longipennis 

 Wlkr., Spec. Lep. Ins., xxxiv, p. 1139, 1865, Darjeeling, 

 but has the distal third of wing from behind E^ and 

 obliquely from apex to postmedial line dark purple-drab, 

 interrupted by whitish, proximally black-dotted subterminal 

 spots between the veins ; proximal two-thirds of wing and 

 costa to apex light buff, shaded with tawnv and grained with 

 purple-drab, leaving a slight, pale, oblique postmedial line 

 from R^ to three-fifths hind margin and a strong, light buff 

 subapical streak defining the dark border : a blackish patch 

 of raised scales in cell at about 3/5 and a similar, rather 

 larger patch behind M, distally oblique from the patch in 

 cell ; slight pale raised hair on discocellular 2, tipped with 

 blackish at lower angle of cell. Hind irinq and underside 

 almost uniform fuscous-brown. 



Mt. Murud, November — 1 cf. 



In addition to the points given above, brevicella differs 

 from longipennis in the shape of fore wing, w^hich has the 

 costa appreciably swelled at about one-third and the termen 

 somewhat less oblique than in longipennis. Differs also in 

 the neuration of hind wing, where the cell is distinctly shorter 

 (hardly f of wing in brevicella ; 2/5 in longipennis and 

 the interspaces between E^ and M' (especially between E' 

 and M^) are distinctly larger than the interspace between 

 SC^ and E^ ; in specimens of longipennis from India, China 

 and Formosa the interspaces are about equal in breadth 

 throughout. 



