230 Mr. Warren oti the Pyralidina collected 



sinuous, just beyond the middle, and followed closely by a fascia- 

 form dark shade ; the 4th submarginal, very indistinct, consisting 

 of a series of wedge-shaped paler-edged dashes ; orbicular stigma 

 a dark dot between lines 1 and 2 ; reniform stigma a faint dark 

 lunule between 2 and 3 ; costa narrowly cream-coloured from the 

 base to the 3rd line, on which pale ground the origin of the first 

 three lines appears blackish ; four cream-coloured dots before the 

 apex ; fringes dark, with the extreme tips cream-coloured, except 

 at the elbow above the anal angle, where they are wholly dark. 

 Hind wings more brown, without the slaty tinge, with two straight 

 transverse lines, the basal one brownish red, single ; the central 

 double, with a paler line between ; fringes bright pale cream- 

 coloured, with a central darker line towards the anal angle, pre- 

 ceded there by a curved cream-coloured mark. Palpi pale fuscous, 

 the tips of 2nd and 3rd joints paler ; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 slaty fuscous ; tip of the abdomen cream-coloured. Under side 

 smooth, fuscous ; fore wings with the 2nd and 3rd lines and both 

 stigmata, hind wings with both lines, and a basal spot, dark ; a sub- 

 marginal row of dark blotches more or less distinct on all the 

 wings. Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 



Three females, one from R. Jurua, Nov. 12th, 1874, 

 the others from R. Jutahi, 25th and 27th of January, 

 1875. 



HYPENIDyE. 



4. Hypena ohditaUs. 



Hypena ohditalis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xvi., 



p. 48. 

 One 3' , without any note as to capture or locality. 

 In Walker's description " marginal lunules ivhite with 

 black points " should read " black with ivldte points." 



5. HyjJcna munda, n. s. 

 Fore wings dark mouse-coloured, with two transverse lines, the 

 1st slightly oblique, the 2nd straight, nearer each other on the 

 inner margin than on the costa, the former edged internally with 

 bluish grey and externally with brown, the latter externally with 

 bluish grey and internally with brown ; submarginal line sinuous, 

 consisting of dark spots with white dots externally ; marginal 

 lunules black, with white dots internally ; a minute black dot, 

 often obsolete, represents the orbicular stigma ; hind wing dull 

 fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen the same. Under side pale 

 fuscous, with two whitish spots showing through from the si;b- 

 marginal line near the costa. Expanse of wings, 30 inm. 



