436 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Moths 



7. Hypena sylplia, sp. n. 



Allied to H. molpusalis, from Ceylon { = H. sparsah's , from 

 Java) ; smaller and more slender, with differently formed cen- 

 tral band across primaries : these wings are lilacine grey, 

 crossed near the base by an ill-defined black line ; a partly 

 black-edged cuneiform brown patch from cell to inner margin, 

 where it unites with a brown band running across the middle 

 of the wing ; this band is edged externally by a black and 

 whitish feebly biangnlated stripe ; discoidal spots blackish, 

 the reniform spot having a pale centre ; three or four whitish 

 crescents in an oblique series beyond the cell and a discal 

 series, parallel to the outer margin, of blackish spots bounded 

 externally by whitish crescents ; a marginal series of blackish 

 crescents bounded internally by whitish dots : secondaries 

 greyish, with blackish marginal line ; fringe whitish, spotted 

 from apex to beyond the middle with white-centred black 

 spots : body above greyish, darker in front. Under surface 

 sericeous greyish ; wings with a black marginal line ; fringe 

 blackish, with interrupted slender basal white line. Expanse 

 of wings 2 1 millim. 



Alu. 



The delicate palpi of this species and H. molpusaUs seem 

 to me to indicate a generic distinction between this species 

 and the preceding one ; but, until the whole genus Hypena 

 can be thoroughly revised, it is of no use to attempt to sepa- 

 rate isolated species. Distinctive characters Avhich, at lirst 

 sight, appear to be trustworthy may prove to graduate one 

 into another. 



HerminiidaB. 

 8. Epizeuxis minima^ sp. n. 



Bone-whitish, irregularly transversely banded, but especi- 

 ally beyond the middle, with rufous-brown ; the basal two 

 thirds of primaries being almost clear in the type, interrupted 

 chiefly by indications of a slightly zigzag central band, the 

 outer edge of which is marked by a whitish line bounded 

 towards costa by a blackish dash ; costa black-spotted ; a 

 conspicuous black spot just below the middle of the disk, and 

 three blackish spots connected by brownish ring-spots on outer 

 margin ; fringe ochraceous, the outer half paler, tipped with 

 grey, the inner half varied with rufous-brown : secondaries 

 witli two black dots on an ill-defined rufous spot in the cell; 

 a marginal chain-like border of brown ring-spots as in prima- 

 ries ; fringe also similar to that of those wings : body whitish, 

 palpi tipped and banded with blackish. Under surface shin- 



