98 HTPENID^. — HERMIXIID.E. 



Hypena eurhipoides. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 16.) 



Expanse § inch. 



Male. Fore wing smoty brown and black ; an indistinct waved antemedial pale line 

 bordered witli black ; a more distinct postmedial one bent out round the end of the cell, then 

 inwards to inner margin ; a large dark spot at end of cell ; a waved submarginal pale band ; 

 a series of dark antecilial luuules with pale spots inside them. Hind wing, head, thorax, and 

 abdomen smoky black ; palpi black. Underside paler fuscous : fore wing with traces of the 

 submarginal band : hiud wing with an indistinct lunule at end of cell ; indistinct postmedial, 

 submarginal, and antecilial dark bands. 



Hypena curvilinea. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 18.) 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Male. Fore wing : a wide costal border with au even curve from the apex round below 

 the cell to the base, purple with the veins in it white ; bordered below by a silvery -white 

 streak from the lower extremity of the cell to the base, followed by a dark brown band, 

 broadest at .middle of wing, narrowest at apes and base ; then a silvery-white line with a 

 narrow brown edging ; the exterior and interior areas purplish white, with two curved brown 

 bands obsolescent towards base — all these markings sweeping with an even curve from near 

 the apex to the base; a fine dark antecilial line ; cilia purplish grey, white at origin. Hind 

 wing and underside whitish, evenly suffused with smoky brown. 



Allied to H. abducalis, but the bands have a quite regular curve ; the markings more 

 distinct than in H. curviferalis from Java. 



HEEMIXIID.E. 



LOBOCHEILOS, gen. nov. 



Male. Palpi : basal joint ascending to the level of the vertex, thick and closely scaled ; 

 terminal joint of similar length, but much thinner, and not so closely scaled. Antennae 

 serrated. Venation normal. Fore wing with a lobe at centre of inner margin, on and 

 above which is a round patch of differently formed scales. 



Lobocheilos illattioides. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 10.) 



Expanse ^ inch. 



Male. Wings uniform smoky brown. Fore wing crossed by five indistinct, dark, narrow, 

 waved bands at regular intervals ; a series of dark antecilial specks ; some small pale spots on 



