430 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Hah. West Africa, Congo ; Soudan ; Abyssinia; Sokotra ; British 

 East Africa, Kikuyu, Machakos, Eb. Urru, Muthambi; British 

 Central Africa, Zomba, Chiromo ; Mashonaland, Salisbury, 

 Umtali (Marshall) ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Natal, Durban 

 (Gooch, Leigh) ; Aden ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Singapore ; 

 Australia. Ex'p. 32 mill. 



(5) Hypena mbgapboctis, n. sp. 



Antennae of <? broken, (?) pectinate; abdomen of $ with very 

 large anal tuft. Head and thorax purplish grey more or less mixed 

 with brown ; tarsi banded with ochreous ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 dorsal crest at base black, the anal tuft greyish ochreous. Forewing 

 purple fuscous ; a curved blackish antemedial line with a broad band 

 of blackish suffusion beyond it below the cell ; a waved medial line 

 bent outwards in cell ; a discoidal lunule defined by whitish scales ; 

 the postmedial line rather indistinct, waved, angled outwards at 

 veins 6 and 4, then incurved ; a dentate whitish subterminal line 

 angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and with four black spots beyond it 

 between vein 4 and apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind- 

 wing fu.scous brown with waved ochreous subterminal line and 

 terminal series of black points ; the under side greyish irrorated and 

 suffused with brown, an indistinct discoidal point and waved medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exi:). <? 32, ? 36 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



(5) Hypena mesomel^na, n. sp. 



(? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with black ; palpi 

 blackish. Forewing grey-brown irrorated with black ; the medial 

 area below the cell black defined on inner side by the white ante- 

 medial line and on outer by the white postmedial line which is 

 slightly excurved just beyond the discocellulars and more strongly at 

 vein 2 ; a black point in middle of cell, some black suffusion before 

 the postmedial line and some deep black m the sinus beyond the 

 cell ; a subterminal series of white points with black marks on their 

 inner edges increasing in size towards costa and with a diffused 

 mark in discal fold, the series excurved from vein 7 to 4, then 

 incurved ; a slight oblique blackish mark from apex and a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing dark brown. Under side of fore- 

 wing with two white subapical points ; hindwing with dark discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial line. 



