in the Collection of A. Fry, Esq. 261 



near the base of the interior border, an oblique band wliich is 

 very deeply bent and almost interrupted in the middle, a dot and 

 an undulating streak in front of the band ; the latter is shaded 

 with brown on the outer side, and is followed by an undulating 

 brown sub-marginal line ; marginal lunules blackish ; some pale 

 ])oints along the exterior part of the costa ; exterior border 

 slightly angular in the middle. Hind-wings more brownish than 

 the fore-wings. 



Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



Genus Phurys, Glien. 

 PJnirys mensurata. 

 Fcem. — Cervina, palpis oblique ascendentibus verticem non 

 superantibus articulo 3o minimo, abdomine alas posticas 

 paullo superante segmentis pallido marginatis, alis anticis 

 purpurascente tinctis, linea exteriore recta obliqua extus 

 nigro - marginata antice dilatata, linea adhuc exteriore e 

 punctis nigris, lineis interiore et media ochraceis undulatis 

 valde indistinctis, alis posticis pallidioribus fascia submar- 

 ginali fusca lata diffusa. 



Female. — Fawn-colour. Palpi obliquely ascending, not rising 

 so high as the vertex ; 3rd joint very minute. Abdomen extend- 

 ing a little beyond the hind-wings, slightly compressed at the tip ; 

 hind borders of the segments pale. Fore-wings with a purplish 

 tinge ; exterior line straight, oblique, bordered with black on the 

 outer side, except in front, where it is dilated into a band ; a more 

 exterior line of black points ; interior and middle lines ochraceous, 

 undulating, very slender, and indistinct, the latter terminating 

 near the interior border in a diffuse black streak. Hind- wings 

 and underside of the fore-wings paler, with a broad brown diffuse 

 sub-marginal band. 



Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Fara. HYPENIDiE. 

 Genus Hypena, Schr. 

 Hypenal scissilinea. 

 Mas. — Pallide ochracea, capite thoraceque antico obscure rufis, 

 hujus margine postico nigro, palpis compressis longissimis 

 sub-fimbriatis oblique ascendentibus, antennis sub-pubescen- 

 tibus, tibiis posticis calcaribus duobus apicalibus uno longis- 



