96 HTPENID^. 



Hypena rectifascia. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 2.) 



Expanse | iuch. 



Male. Fore wing with basal area rich chocolate-brown, purple above subcostal nervure ; 

 a perfectly straight, very slightly inwardly-oblique medial double line, inwardly red-brown, 

 «)utwardly yellow, and ending on the costa as a white spot ; outer area purple, with three 

 white strigse on the costa ; a narrow yellow apical streak, with a large dark brown patch 

 l)olo\v it, and two black spots above it, outwardly-bordered with white ; a red-brown ante- 

 cilial line. Hind wing and underside entire fuscous, with slight antecilial line. 



Allied to the mandalalis, Icesalis, &c. group, but the perfectly straight, inwardly-oblique 

 medial line distinguishes it from any other species. 



Hypena griseivitta. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 1{ inch. 



Male. Fore wing dull purplish brown ; a small patch of raised black scales in the 

 cell ; a whitish, slightly waved, erect postmedial line, with a dark inner border ; the area 

 immediately beyond it towards the costa purplish grey, followed by two indistinct waved 

 dark bands ; the apical streak diffused and purplish grey; a dark lunulate antecilial line. 

 Hind wing fuscous, with antecilial line ; cilia darker at middle. Underside with an indistinct 

 lunule at the end of cell of each wing. 



Allied to H. thermesialis, but with the postmedial band much more erect. 



Hypena tristis. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 14.) 



Expanse 1| inches. 



Male. Fore wing olive-brown; a patch of raised black scales at centre of cell; an 

 obscure, dark, postmedial, somewhat inwardly-oblique band ; the area beyond which is slightly 

 suffused with purple; an indistinct diffused subniarginal dark band. Hind wing luscous, 

 with an obscure antecilial line. Underside paler fuscous. 



Allied to H. griseivitta, the postmedial baud inwardly-oblique and less waved. 



Hypena uniformis. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Expanse Ig inch. 



Male. Fuscous, with a slight purplish gloss. Fore wing with narrow waved antemedial 

 black band; a black patch of raised scales in tlie middle of the cell; an erect, nearly straight 

 postmedial narrow band, and series of antecilial black specks. Both wings with a dark 

 antecilial and two cilial lines. Underside paler. 



