76 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Keddish brown, mostly cinereous beneath. Palpi dark 

 brown, cinereous above. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings with 

 the interior and exterior lines blackish, denticulated, indistinct; 

 some diffuse oblique undulating cinereous lines ; one extending from 

 the interior line to the base, obsolete in front ; the others beyond the 

 exterior line; marginal points black; orbicular mark black, puncti- 

 form; reniform forming an oblong ringlet which encloses a black 

 point. Hind wings cinereous, with black marginal points, and with 

 two dark cinereous lines which are almost obsolete above but dis- 

 tinct beneath. Length of the body 3^ lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 16. AB^EBA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile, squamosum, glabrum. Oculi magni. 

 Palpi validi, porrecti, supra pilosi, thorace non breviores; articulus 

 3us subfusiformis, 2i dimidio vix brevior. Antennae nitentes, sim- 

 plicissimae, corporis dimidio valde longiores; articulus lus longus, 

 validus. Abdomen breviusculum ; fasciculus apicalis parvus. Tibiae 

 posticae calcaribus longissimis. Alas mediocres, lituris nullis ; an- 

 ticae costa subconvexa, fasciculo parvo costali, margine interiore sub- 

 emarginato ; posticae abdomen paullo superantes. 



Male. Body rather slender, and, like the wings, palpi and legs, 

 squamous and with a metallic hue. Frontal tuft prominent. Eyes 

 large, prominent. Palpi stout, porrect, pilose above, as long as the 

 thorax ; third joint subfusifoim, nearly half the length of the second. 

 Antennae smooth, shining, quite simple, much more than half the 

 length of the body; first joint long, stout. Abdomen rather short; 

 apical tuft small. Hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately broad, wilhout markings. Fore wings rectangular at the tips ; 

 costa slightly convex, with a small nearly flat tuft at a little beyond 

 the middle ; interior border slightly emarginate. Hind wings ex- 

 tending a little beyond the abdomen. 



This genus is very different from all the other genera of Hype- 

 nida in the structure of the wings, but agrees with Hypena in the 

 palpi. 



1. Ab.era nactalis. 

 Mas. Purpuras cente-cuprea, subtus cenea ; abdominis segmenta 

 pallida marginata ; alee anticce chalybceo pallido varice ; pos- 

 ticce ccnece, strigis ajmd angulum interiorem duabus pallide 

 chalybcis. 



