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especially on the veins ; antemedial line represented by slight 

 Mack points on the veins ; a small blackish spot at lower angle of 

 cell ; a postmedial series of black points on the veins, excurved 

 from coslato vein 4, then oblique: cilia brownish ochreous with 

 a slight dark line through thern. Hind wing white irrorated with 

 brown, the termen tinged with brown ; a curved punctiform post- 

 medial line irom costa to vein 2 and fine dark terminal line from 

 apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing dark rufous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous. 

 — Dorsetshire (Bankes). 



Hah. Britain, Leech and Frey Colls. ; France : Denmark : 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austiua. Exp. 21-26 

 millim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit, v. p. 94, pi. 196. f. 2. 



Slender; dorsally pale red. ventrally whitish ; four dark dorsal 

 tubercles on each somite ; lateral line fine, blackish ; head and 

 thoracic plate shining brown. Food-plant in stems of Juncas 

 lamprocarpus. 5-6. 



Genus HYPOCCENA, nov. 



Type, //. rufostriga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of irons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennas of male ciliated; 

 thorax clothed with rough hair only and without crests ; build slender ; 

 tibiae fringed with long hair: abdomen with some rough hair at base but 

 without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 eve dy curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to lorm the areole; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell : o obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; (3,7 from upper angle; 8 anabtoiuosiug with 

 cell near base only. 



4715. Hypoccena rufostriga. 



Leucauin rufostriga, Tack. Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 36 (1866) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. 

 Caradrina ptmctivena, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 77, pi. v. f. 12 



(1894). 



d . Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with rufous ; 

 palpi, lower part of frons, pectus, and legs suffused with fuscous ; 

 abdomen greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused and irrorated with rufous, the veins 

 whitish irrorated with black ; a slight black streak above base of 

 vein 1 ; a diffused dark streak along median nervure from before 

 middle to middle of termen ; antemedial line represented by a 

 black point on vein 1; orbicular and reniform absent; postmedial 

 line represented by a double curved series of black points on the 

 veins; subterminal line absent; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia intersected by pale streaks. Hind wing greyish 



