ST] I.1I1XA. — HYJPEUiniNA. 



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costal area and cell suffused with pale brown ; median nervine not 

 streaked with white; the streak in suhmedian fold more prominent ; 

 anteruedial line double from cell to inner margin, extremely strongly 

 excurved in suhmedian interspace, then very strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight whitish annuli denned by black ; postmedial 

 line represented by dark points on the veins from costa to vein 3 

 and bent outwards below costa, below vein 3 incurved, double, 

 waved ; subterminal line rather more distinct and traceable 

 throughout, angled outwards at veins 7, •!, then oblique. 



Hub. .Syria; Palestine, 1 S , 1$. Exp*. 6 36, § 38 millim. 



Genus HYPEUTHINA. „, 



Type. 



Hypeutkina, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 199 fulyurita. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and 

 moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd joint minute; frons with rounded 

 prominence with corneous plate with curved outer edge at middle, and large 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate 

 with very short branches ; build slender ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed and without distinct crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with white streaks in discal and submedian folds 



defined by black below fulgurita. 



B. Fore wing without white streaks in discal and submedian 



folds defined by black below nuntida. 



3766. Hypeuthina fulgurita. 



Hvpeutkinafulffurita, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 199, pi. 4. 

 f. 1 ; 8taud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 373. 



J . Head and thorax white, the head tinged with oehreous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons brown ; antenna? oehreous ; dorsum of 



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Fig. 23. — Hypeuthina fulgurita, J. ]. 



thorax with pair of black streaks ; pectus and legs brown; abdo- 

 men oehreous white, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing 

 oehreous suffused with pale red-brown, the veins with dark streaks; 

 a white streak in submedian fold to beyond middle with black 

 streak below it, diffused below and acutely angled inwards at 



