86 NOCTUIDA. 
of fore wing with some grey apical suffusion; hind wing with 
slight mark on discocellulars. 
Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon. wp, 38 millim. 
) 2955. Hypena griseivitta, Hmpsn, Ill. Het. viii, p. 96, pl. 148, fie. 8. 
Differs from griseapex in the media! line of fore wing being erect 
and minutely waved. 
Hab. Simla; Nilgiris. xp. 36 millim. 
2956. Hypena abyssinialis, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 89. 
Hypena jussalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 52. 3 
Hypena laceratalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 60; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iui, 
pl. 176, figs. 5, 5a; C.& S. no. 2888. / 
Hypena ignotalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 60; C. & S. no. 2882. 7 
Hypena dispunctalis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1144. 
Hypena squamea, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 94, pl. 147, fig. 22. 
Fore wing somewhat narrower, the outer margin more obliquely 
rounded. Grey-brown. Fore wing with antemedial oblique 
ferruginous line; dark specks at centre and end of cell; a sinuous 
erect ferruginous postmedial line ; a prominent curved apical streak 
with two black specks on its upper edge; three white specks on 
the costa towards apex. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. 
The colour of the fore wing may be almost uniform with dark 
strie and the markings indistinct; or the basal, inner, and lower 
half of outer areas may be violaceous grey or slightly suffused 
with that colour, and with a patch of it on the costa beyond the 
postmedial line. 
Hab. Aden; throughout Africa, India, Ceylon, and Burma; 
Australia. Hap. 32 millim. 
2957. Hypena extensa, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1189; C. § S. no. 2876. 
Differs from abyssimalis in the head, thorax, and fore wing 
being bright red-brown ; the apical streak pale rufous. 
Hab. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Hap. 30 millim. 
2958. Hypena varialis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1136; Hompsn. Ill. Het. 
1, spl GO. ities Us: 
Differs from ahbyssinialis in the ground-colour being redder 
brown. Fore wing with a prominent ochreous streak from the 
base beluw median nervure and pale speck at end of cell; the 
waved postmedial line inwardly oblique. 
Hab. Natal; Madagascar; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hap. 30 millim. 
2959. Hypena nilgirica, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 95, pl. 148, fig. 1. 
Differs from abyssinialis in thefore wing being broader and with 
a waved submarginal line. Underside with the costa of fore wing 
and the whole hind wing ochreous white irrorated with brown ; 
a prominent subapical speck. 
Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 34 millim. 
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