TJic Moths of South Africa: ' 431 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exi). 38 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(6) Hypena varialis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1132 (1865). Hmpsn. 111. Het. 



B.M. ix. pi. 166, f. 13. 

 Hab. British East Africa, Samburu ; Natal (Gueinzius, Gooch, 

 Burrows) ; Madagascar ; Ceylon. Exp. 26-32 mill. 



(7) Hypena holoph^a, n. sp. 



3" . Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewing red-brown finely irrorated with blue-grey ; a 

 waved antemedial brown line slightly defined by blue -grey ; dark 

 points in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; the postmedial line 

 excurved byond the cell and at vein 2 with another curved minutely 

 waved line beyond it ; traces of a subterminal series of dark spots ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hindwing dark brown. Under 

 side uniform dark brown. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Hutchinson). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



(8) Hypena inconspicua, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvi. p. 413 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal, Northdene. Exp. 30 mill. 



(9) Hypena namaqualis, Guen. Delt. and Pyr. p. 28 (1854). 



cegonalis, Wlk. xvi. 230 (1858). 

 Hab. Namaqualand ; Cape Colony (Dr. Smith), Heald Town, 

 Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 32-36 mill. 



(10) Hypena potamistis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax pale or dark grey, sides of palpi and vertex and 

 sides of thorax streaked with black ; abdomen grey-brown or fuscous 

 brown. Forewing pale grey-brown irrorated with black or dark grey 

 suffused with black, the interspaces with indistinct dark streaks, the 

 submedian interspace, the area before and beyond the postmedial 

 line and the area below the apical mark darker, a black point in 

 middle of cell with two streaks from it to the black defined white 

 discoidal spot ; the postmedial line white with a black line on its 

 inner side and a faint or prominent white line on its outer side, 

 obliquely curved from costa to vein 1 above which it is retracted to 

 base ; a subterminal series of small black spots, the two towards 

 costa placed on an oblique white mark from apex ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hindwing fuscous. Under side of forewing with 

 two white subapical points ; hindwing with indistinct discoidal point 

 and curved postmedial line. 



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