82 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Cinereous whitish; under side darker and tinged or 

 speckled with brownish. Frontal tuft small. Palpi brownish, por- 

 rect, slender, slightly pilose above, a little longer than the thorax ; 

 second joint very slightly curved downward ; third lanceolate, not 

 more than one-fifth of the length of the second. Abdomen and hind 

 wings rather darker than the fore wings. Legs long and slender. 

 Wings long, moderately broad. Fore wings subfalcate, with a few 

 minute black speckles, and with some black points and dots which 

 are arranged in very incomplete oblique lines ; some indistinct and 

 incomplete denticulated blackish lines ; submarginal dots and mar- 

 ginal points black. Hind wings with an indistinct discal line. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



This species of itself forms a section in the genus on account 

 of its small frontal tuft and of the structure of its palpi. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Hypena vulgatalis. 

 Fcem. Cinereo-fusca ; palpi porrecti, subpilosi, sat validi, thorace 

 non breviores; aim antica subfalcatce, extus subpallidiores, 

 linea exteriore nigra subundulata subdenticulata albido extus 

 vriaryinata. 



Female. Cinereous-brown. Palpi porrect, rather stout, slightly 

 pilose, as long as the thorax ; third joint not more than one-third of 

 the length of the second, with which it forms a slight angle. Wings^ 

 moderately broad. Fore wings subfalcate, somewhat poller beyond 

 the exterior line, which like the interior one is black, with a whitish 

 outer border, and is slightly undulating and denticulated ; submar- 

 ginal line composed of whitish black-marked dots, its fore end 

 traversing the junction of two costal patches, of which one is dark 

 brown, the other whitish and apical; orbicular and reniform marks 

 small, black. Hind wings a little paler than the fore wings ; under 

 side with a dark discal band. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 

 wings 13 lines. 



a, b. Cape. From M. Drege's collection. 



Hypfna talpitralis. 

 Mas. Cinereo-fusca, gracilis : palpi porrecti, thorace vix breviores ; 

 articidus 2us subarcuatus ; alee antica cinerece, subfalcatce, 

 sat au(juskc,fusco subtilissime nebulosce, linea exteriore fusco 



