118 NOCTUID.E. 



HYP EN IN ^. 



Hypena ineflfectalis, JVIk. (Plate CLXYI. fig. 25.) 

 Hypena ineffectalis, Wll-. Cat. xvi. p. 85. 



Expanse $ | inch. 



Male. Palpi with the second joint long, porrcct, and roughly scaled, the third prominent, 

 slender, and ohliquely upturned. Smoky black-hrown. Fore wing with indistinct ante- and 

 postmedial waved dark lines ; some dark specks on discocellulars. Hind wing paler, with 

 traces of a cell-spot and postmedial line. 



The unique type is in very bad condition. 



Hypena jocosalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 6.) 

 Hypena jocosalis, WR\ Cat. xvi. p. 57. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Palpi with the second joint very long, evenly scaled, the third long, naked, and obliquely 

 Tipturned. Head and thorax purplish grey-brown ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing purplish 

 grey-brown ; a deep black-brown triangular patch from the base to apex and near outer 

 margin ; an indistinct much-waved antemedial line ; a speck at middle of cell ; a pale lunule 

 on discocellulars; a dark postmedial line, slightly angled at first median nervule, and with a 

 purplish-grey band with a dark line through it outside it ; an irregular grey subapical streak 

 with two black dashes above it. Hind wing fuscous, with a dark marginal line. 



Hypena lignealis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 5.) 

 Hypena lignealis, Wile. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1138. , 



Expanse \-^ inch. 



Palpi with the second joint very long and thickly scaled on the uppcrsidc, the third 

 ])ramincnt, oljliqucly upturned, and scaled. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; a large 

 purplish-grey patch in, beyond, and below the cell ; oblique ante- and postmedial lines from 

 the eosta to subcostal iicrvure; a blac^k spot at centre of cell, and some black strigic in and 

 lielow the end of the cell; a white streak from the upper angle of cell to near outer margin, 

 then curved upwards and broadening to the apex ; two small black dashes above it and two 

 streaks below it. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hypena mandatalis, IVlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 11.) 



Hj'pena mandatalis, ^Yll•. Cat. xvi. p. 58. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head, the second joint thickly scaled on the 



