410 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of 



discal tapering pale testaceous streak bounding the central 

 band, and bordered externally by a red-brown line margined 

 with silvery grey ; outer margin pale, brown, with a sub- 

 marginal series of black dots ; fringe dark grey ; primaries 

 with an oblique apical brown litura ; head, collar, and abdomen 

 brown, the latter with white margins to the segments ; thorax 

 creamy white. Wings below grey, crossed by two darker grey 

 discal lines ; discocellular and submarginal black dots ; apical 

 half of costa of primaries spotted with white : body below 

 pale testaceous Expanse of wings 10 lines. 

 Natal. 



Genus 76. Gracilodes, Gue'ne'e. 



93. Gracilodes cajfra, Gue'ne'e. 



Natal. 



Natal. 



Genus 77. Scambina, Walker. 

 94. Scambina larvata, Walker. 



Family 33. PlatydidaB. 

 Genus 78. Hypena, Schrank. 



95. Hypena obacerralis. Walker. 

 Natal. 

 A very variable species. 



96. Hypena senialis } Gue'ne'e. 

 Natal. 



M. Gue'ne'e says that his description is taken from a speci- 

 men in poor condition ; when fresh it more nearly resembles 

 H. obesalis in colouring than H. obsitalis ; it is, however, the 

 size of the latter. 



97. Hypena varialis, Walker. 

 Natal. 



Allied to the preceding species. 



98. Hypena velatipennis, n. sp. 



Allied to H. indicatalis. Very variable in tint ; darker or 

 lighter grey : primaries with the basal half blackish, sharply 

 defined externally by a transverse, slightly trisinuate, white- 

 edged black line ; irrorated with green-shot scales, and crossed 

 by two irregular black lines, between which (within the cell) 

 is a black dot ; apical half irrorated with black atoms, which 

 (in dark examples) form two transverse sinuated lines, the 

 sinuations together forming incomplete circles ; a heart-shaped 

 subapical black spot, edged externally with white, and bounded 

 below by a white longitudinal litura, the whole enclosed by an 



