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the fore side; three pale cinereous costal subapical points. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



South Africa. In Mr. D'Urban's collection. 



Hypena dtsclusalis. 



Mas. Flaveseente-cinerca ; caput et thorax anticus fusca ; palpi 

 dense fimbriati, articulo So brevissimo ; alee anticce plaga 

 magna fusca subtrigona, linea exteriore flavescente-cinerea 

 lineam ferrugineam includente, plaga adhuc exteriore fusca 

 maculam apicalem Jlaveacente-cineream includente, strigulis 

 nonnullis transversis nigricantibus, lunulis marginalibus nigris; 

 posticce fusca. 



Male. Yellowish cinereous, dull cinereous beneath. Head, 

 palpi and fore part of the thorax brown. Palpi thickly fringed, 

 much longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint very short. 

 Antennae minutely setulose. Legs smooth. Fore wings with a 

 few black speckles and with a large irregularlarly triangular patch, 

 which occupies full three-fourths of the breadth from the costa, along 

 which it is continued nearly to the base, and is bounded on the 

 outer side by a zigzag yellowish cinereous line, which includes a 

 ferruginous line and divides the patch from a more diffuse brown 

 patch, which extends to the exterior border and contains a yellowish 

 cinereous apical spot; marginal lunules black; some short blackish 

 transverse streaks. Hind wings brown ; fringe cinereous, interlined 

 with brown. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Closely allied to H. vulgatalis, from which it may be distin- 

 guished by the more angular transverse line of the fore wings. 



a. South Africa. From Mr. Trim en's collection. 



Hypena vaktalts. 



Fcem. Ferrugineo-fusca; palpi porrecti, subangulati, supra sub- 

 fimbriati, capitis latitudme fere duplo longiores ; ala? anticce 

 purpurascente sublinctce, nigricante conspersce et nebulosce, 

 vitta abbreviata pallide cinerea, linea cinerea duplicata undu- 

 lata lineam ferrugineam includente, gutta nigra antemedia, 

 gutta strigaque apicali lata obliqua pallide cinereis, plaga 

 apud angulum interiorem magna cinerea ; posticce cinereo- 

 fuscce. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi por- 

 rect, with a short fringe above, nearly twice longer than the breadth 



