444 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEIU. 



the tips. Hind wings with a limpid spot and a limpid dot near the 

 tips. Length of the body 4J lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



a. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



This species may form a new genus. 



Genus 65. HYPSA. 



Corpus sat gracile, sublineare. Caput mediocre. Oculi ex- 

 tantes. Palpi ascendentes, capite longiores ; articulus 3us gracilis, 

 linearis, elongatus. Antennae graciles, setaceae, maris saepe pecti- 

 natae. Proboscis longa. Pedes longi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae plerumque longae. 



Phalaena Noctua, p., Linn. ; Gmel. 



Phalaena Eombyx, p., Fabr. ; Gmel. 



Noctua, p., Fabr. 



Erebus, p., Latr. 



Hypsa, Damalis, Euplocia et Neochera, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 172, 



1173. 

 Aganaides et Aganais, Boisd. Faune Ent. de Madagascar, fyc, 



Lep. 96. 



Allied to the Noctuida. Body rather slender, nearly linear. 

 Palpi ascending, a little longer than the head ; second joint nearly 

 thrice the length of the first; third linear, long, much more slender 

 than the second. Antennas slender, setaceous. Fore tibiae of the 

 male dentate beneath. Hind tibiae armed with four long spurs. 



Group 1. PERI DROME. 



Antennae in utroque sexu simplices, corporis dimidio paullo 

 longiores, maris pubescentes. Alae maris latissimae, apice obtusae aut 

 subquadrato rotundat* ; anticae maris apud costam pilosissimae et 

 subtuberculatae, posticae anticis vix breviores. 



Antennae simple in both sexes, pubescent in the male, a little 

 more than half the length of the body. Wings of the male very 

 broad, obtusely or subquadrately rounded at the tips. Fore wings 

 of the male very hairy and somewhat tuberculate in front. Hind 

 wings nearly as long as the fore wings. 



Fcern.P Alae mediocriter latae, sublanceolatae, apice subacumi- 

 natae ; posticae anticis multo breviores. 



