434 Annals of the South African Miiseum. 



the postmedial line very indistinct on costal half, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then obliquely incurved to 

 inner margin and with some black points on its outer edge ; the 

 veins streaked with black towards termen ; the cilia intersected with 

 white ; a small black mark above tornus. Under side fuscous 

 brown. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss P. Barrett). Ex;p. 32 mill, 

 TypeinB.M. 



Sect. II. (Bhynchina). Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing cupreous brown, the base and inner area grey . . . . tinctalis. 



B. Forewing grey suffused in places with cupreous revolutalis. 



<4) Ehynchina tinctalis, Zell. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 9 (1854). 

 Hypena echionalis, Wlk. xvi. 230 (1858). 



Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Mashonaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). ExjJ. 24-28 mill. 



(5) Ehynchina revolutalis, Zell. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 10 

 (1854). 

 Hab. West Africa, Accra ; British East Africa, Tanga, Gwellil, 

 Nairowa, Kikuyu ; Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Exp. 

 22 mill. 



Genus EH^SENA. 



Type. 



BhcBsena, Wlk. xxxv. 1973 (1866) subcujjralis. 



Symplusia, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 28 (1894) suhcupralis. 



A. Forewing with the fovea on under side and ridges of scales round it elongate. 



a. Forewing rufous, the subterminal line irregular and dis- 

 tinctly angled at vein 5 subcupralis. 



b. Forewing darker, the subterminal line almost straight. . . . prunescens. 

 'B. Forewing with the fovea on under side and ridges of scales 



round it short . . . . capensis. 



(1) EhjEsena subcupralis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1167 (1865). 

 transcissa, Wlk. xxxv. 1974 (1866). 

 ,, ohliquifasciata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 183 (1888). 

 Symplusia frequens, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 28 (1894). 

 Hab. West Africa, Ogove Eiver ; Sokotra ; British Central 

 Africa, Lake Nyasa ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; 

 Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Innes) ; India ; Western Australia. 

 Exp. 24-30 mill. 



