LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 53 



subfalcate lineis interiore et exterior e fuscis pallido margina- 

 tis, hac subundulata subdenticulata, ilia recta obliqua, plagis 

 duabus exterioribus albidis, striga apicali undulata alba, 

 lunulis marginalibus albido marginatis, orbiculari e gutta 

 nigra. 



Male. Brown, speckled with cinereous. Palpi porrect, mode- 

 rately tufted, as long as the thorax ; third joint lanceolate, white at 

 the tip, forming an angle with the second and a little more than one- 

 fourth of its leugth. Abdomen and hind wings cinereous-brown, 

 the former slightly crested. Wings with the fringe doubly inter- 

 lined. Fore wings subfalcate ; iuterior and exterior lines brown, 

 pale-bordered, converging hindward and united at a short distance 

 from the interior border, the former straight and oblique, the latter 

 slightly undulating and denticulated; a whitish elongated patch 

 along the hind part of the exterior line, and a smaller one along its 

 fore part ; a white undulating apical streak; marginal lunules with 

 whitish borders; orbicular mark indicated by a black dot. Hind 

 wings with a brown marginal line. Length of the body 4^ lines ; 

 of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Group 4. 



57. Hypena Abyssinialis. 



Mas et foem. Nigricante-cinerea ; palpi incumbentes, breves, arti- 

 culo So brevissimo securiformi ; alee lata ; anticu? trigone, 

 subdenticulata, acuta, non falcata, lineis interiore et exterior e 

 fuscis indistinctis subtrementibus subarcuatis, submarginali 

 pallidiore vaga tremente, macula apicali obliqua albo con- 

 spersa, linen marginali tenui alba, punctis duobus discalibus 

 nigris ; postica nigra. 



Hypena Abyssinialis, Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 39, 44. 



Abyssinia. 



Group 5. 



58. Hypena obacerralis. 



Mas et foem. Cinerea ; palpi fusci, porrecti, subpilosi, thorace 

 non breviores ; ala antica angusta, subglaucescentes, vix fal- 

 cate, linea interiore abbreviata, exteriore cervina recta valde 

 obliqua pallido extus marginatum submarginali e nebula non- 

 nunquam obsoleta fuscescente punctisque nigris ; fimbria intcr- 

 lineata ; postica obscure cinerea?. 



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