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6". Forewing pale reddish brown striated with fuscous .. rectivittalis. 

 c'. Forewing chestnut-brown, the terminal area suffused 



with blue-grey ectoglauca. 



b Forewing with the postmedial line very oblique. 



a'. Forewing chestnut-brown the terminal area suffused with 



blue-grey lividalis. 



b^. Forewing grey-brown irro rated with black masiirialis. 



(1) Hypena ebastialis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1135 (1865). 



velatipennis, Butl. A.M.N. H. (4) xvi. p. 410 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Burrows, Leigh). Exp. 26-30 mill. 



( 2) Hypena polycyma, n. sp. 



? . Dark brown. Forewing striated with black ; the Natal speci- 

 men with pale olive fascia in submedian fold and suffusion on ter- 

 minal area ; an indistinct brown antemedial line very oblique from 

 costa to vein 1 where it is acutely angled outwards to join the post- 

 medial line, and slightly angled on median nervure ; the tufts of 

 scales in and below middle of cell and on discocellulars black ; the 

 postmedial line angled outwards on veins 6 and 4 then dentate and 

 very oblique ; a pale curved mark from apex with black spot on its 

 inner edge ; a subterminal series of obscure black and grey spots 

 conjoined to termen by slight streaks ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hindwing uniform dark brown. Under side of forewing 

 with black subapical point on pale patch ; hindwing with discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. British East Africa, Munisu (Lord Delamere) ; Natal (Bur- 

 rows). Exp. 34 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3) Hypena derasalis, Guen. Delt. and Pyr. p. 27, pi. 4, f. 2 (1854). 



,, senialis, Guen. Delt. and Pyr. p. 30 (1854). 



vulgatalis, Wlk. xvi. 82 (1858). 



palpitralis, Wlk. xvi. 82 (1858). 

 ,, disclusalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1136 (1865). 

 Hab. Sokotra; British East Africa, Munisu, Kikuyu, Machakos, 

 Eb.Urru, Athi-ya-Mawe ; Namaqualand ; Natal, Karkloof 

 (Marshall), Victoria District (Gooch) ; Cape Colony, Knysna 

 (Trimen). Exp. 30-34 mill. 



(4) Hypena steigata, Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 467 (1798). 



,, abyssmialis, Guen. Delt. and Pyr. p. 39 (1854). 



fumidalis, Zell. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 7 (1854). 

 „ commixtalis, Zell. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 8 (1854). 



jussalis, Wlk. xvi. 52 (1858) 



