HYPENA.— HOEMISA. 61 



Hypena belinda. (Plate LVI. fig. 3.) 



Primaries fuliginous brown, reticulated with blackish and mottled with silvery grey 

 beyond the middle ; a broad regular transverse reddish-brown belt terminating at the middle 

 of the wing, where it is bounded by a silvery-grey line ; a white subapical spot and a mai'ginal 

 series of black dots : secondaries paler than the primaries, immaculate : body pale brown, 

 abdomen with whitish segmental lines. Under surface pale whitish brown ; primaries rather 

 darker than the secondaries, with white subapical spot ; secondaries with a dusky discocellular 

 spot, and traces of two arched lines parallel to the outer margin. Expanse of wings 1 inch to 

 1 inch 2 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Much like H. iconicalis, but differing considerably in its much more slender and 

 shorter palpi. 



GISIRA, JValker. 

 Gisira signata. (Plate LVI. fig. 4.) 



Greyish brown ; wings crossed at the middle by a pale-edged darker straight line ; an 

 interrupted black marginal line : primaries crossed at the basal fourth by an irregular deeply 

 sinuatcd dusky streak, darkest upon the costa, and with a pale internal edge ; a black dot, 

 close to the latter, within the cell ; a whitish-edged black >-shaped marking at the end of 

 the cell, above which the central dusky line becomes wider and dark ; a transverse subapical 

 costal blackish fascicle, white-edged externally : secondaries with an ill-defined dusky discal 

 belt parallel to the outer border : head and thorax rather darker than the abdomen. Wings 

 below paler than above, crossed by two subparallel sinuated i)ale-bordered dusky discal lines ; 

 discocellulars blackish : secondaries sordid white, irrorated with greyish brown, the borders of 

 the lines white : body greyish brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Allied to G. acclarnalis. The genus Gisira, excepting in its long slender palpi, much 

 resembles the Noctuid genus Toxocampa, to which it may ultimately prove to be allied ; the 

 palpi are, however, much longer than in any genus of Toxocampidce hitherto known. 



HORMISA, Walker. 



Hormisa plusioides. (Plate LVI. fig. 5.) 



Primaries silveiy grey ; a subcunciform dusky costal j)atch at the base, followed by an 

 oblique elbowed dusky line ; an irregularly pentagonal dusky costal patch over the end of the 

 cell, followed by an angulated and oblique black discal line, which widens below the angle into 

 a black-edged yellowish-brown stripe terminating upon the centre of the inner margin ; a 

 subapical dusky costal dash interrupted by four white dots upon the costal margin, and 



