134 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



Tanganyika : Upper Ruwuwu Valley, Urindi District, August, 1919 

 (T. A. Barns.) One $ . 



The second joint of the palpus is straighter than in H. albirhom- 

 boidea and has scarcely any visible tuft at the end below ; the rough 

 hair on the third joint ends more irregularly, not leaving so long a 

 naked tip as in the last species. 



16. Hypena semlikiensis sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 16). 



$ , 32 mm. 



Head, thorax, palpus, antenna and legs greyish-brown, the tarsi 

 beneath and at the joints paler, more ochreous, the inner side of palpus 

 and the foreleg beneath whitish ; abdomen brownish-grey, paler 

 beneath, with the anal tuft whitish. 



Fore wing greyish-brown, a shade paler on terminal half ; rather 

 smoothly scaled. A slight, diffused, excurved antemedial line from 

 costa at one-fourth to hind margin at one-third ; a black spot in cell 

 near antemedial line ; postmedial line pale, proximally defined by dark 

 brown, from near middle of costa to hind margin at nearly two-thirds, 

 slightly excurved at cell, then straight ; subterminal line obsolescent, 

 denned by some proximal dark shading and by white dots between the 

 veins, waved, bent outward behind SC 5 , about K 3 and before SM 2 , and 

 inward behind R 1 and at M 2 ; some terminal dark lunules between the 

 veins; fringe dark grey, paler at base. 



Hind wing dark brownish-grey ; terminal lunules and fringe as on 

 fore wing. 



Underside of both wings grey irrorated with brown ; margins and 

 fringes as above ; traces of a dark postmedial line on costal half of both 

 wings. Hind wing with slight discoidal spot. 



Congo Beige : Semliki Eiver, December, 1919. (T. A. Barns.) 

 One $ . 



The antenna of this species is not " minutely ciliated," as Schaus 

 cites for the genus Hypena, but with fascicles of cilia slightly longer 

 than the antennal shaft. Second joint of palpus straight and without 

 tuft of hair below at end ; third joint with the rough hair extending 

 almost to tip. 



17. Hypena ituriensis sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 17). 



$ , 38 mm. 



Head, thorax above, palpus and antennal shaft slightly rufous- 

 brown, the hair on second joint of palpus and crown of head tipped 



