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Female. Reddish cinereous, slender; abdomen and under 

 side paler. Palpi cinereous, porrect, slightly pilose, shorter than 

 the thorax; third joint less than half the length of the second, with 

 which it forms a distinct angle. Fore wings hardly falcate, with a 

 white slender very oblique line, which extends from three-fourths of 

 the length of the costa to the middle of the interior border, and has 

 along its outer side a very diffuse whitish band, which includes 

 a black subapical point; orbicular mark black, puuctiform ; margi- 

 nal line brown, like that of the hind wings. Length of the body 3£ 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Genus 9. HYPENODES. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, caput longe 

 superantes; articulus 2us fasciculatus ; 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio 

 brevior. Antenna* corporis dimidio longiores, maris subciliatae. 

 Abdomen alasposticas paullo superaus. Pedes graciles, nudi ; tibiae 

 posticae calcanbus longis. Ala* angustae; anticae apud costam vix 

 convexae, apice angulatce,margine exteriore subconvexo perobliquo. 



Hypenodes, Guen. MSS. ; DoubL Zool. App. 1850 ; Guen. Belt. 



et PyraL 41. 

 Cledeobia, Steph. III. Brit. Haust. 159.; Herr.-Schceff. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, extending far 

 beyond the head; second joint tufted ; third lanceolate, bare, less 

 than half the length of the second, with which it forms an angle. 

 Antennae little more than half the length of the body, minutely 

 ciliated in the male. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs slender, bare ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings 

 narrow. Fore wings hardly convex along the costa, acutely angu- 

 lar at the tips, slightly eonvex and very oblique along the exterior 

 border. 



1. Hypenodes albistrigalis. 



Pallide testaceo-cinerea ; alee antica? fuscescente subnebulosa?, squa- 

 mis nonnullis elevatis fuscis, linea exteriore pallida Jiexa> 

 punctis marginalibus fuscis pallido extus marginalis ; posticce 

 pallide cinerece. 



Crambus albistrigatus, Haw. Lep. Brit. 368. 



Cledeobia albistrigalis, IStepk. III. Brit. Haust. 20. Wood, III. 

 771. 



