HYPENA. - BKITHA. 93 



C. (Ptyophora). Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore wing 

 with a costal fold and an erectile tuft of long hair at base. 



2988. Hypena ochreistigma, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 124, pi. 167, 



% 25. ^ 



cJ . Differs from ineffectalis in the structural characters only. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus STENHYPENA, nov. 



Type, S. adustalis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Differs from Hypena in tho fore wing being narrow and of 

 almost even width throughout, the outer margin nearly erect ; 

 the areole very small, vein 10 given off far beyond it ; raised 

 specks in and at end of cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 

 stalked. Palpi with the 2nd joint of moderate length and fringed 

 with hair above, the 3rd upturned and hairy, with the apex 

 naked. 



2989. Stenhypena adustalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 120, pi. 166, 

 fig. 7. 



Head, thorax, and fore 

 wing ochreous brown, suf- 

 fused and irrorated with 

 fuscous, the last with a 

 slight dark mark on dis- 

 cocellulars ; traces of a 

 curved and waved post- 

 me dial line; a submar- 



ginal sinuous series of white specks ; a marginal series of black 



specks. Hind wing and abdomen pale fuscous. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 32 rnillim. 



Genus BRITHA. 



Britha, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1146 (1865). 

 Hyposenieia, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 121 (1893). 



Type, B. biguttata, Wlk. 



Range. JST. China; Ceylon; Java; Australia; New Britain. 



Palpi long and obliquely porrect, the 2nd and 3rd joints fringed 

 with very long hair above ; antennae bipectinate in male, with long 

 spines from end of branches ; abdomen with dorsal tufts on the 

 first two segments. Pore wing of male with a large smooth patch 

 occupying the inner area on underside, with a tuft of long hairs on 

 vein 1. Hind wing with the costa much arched and a large smooth 

 patch on upperside ; veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked ; 5 from near 

 lower angle of cell. 



