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NOCTUID^. 
HYPENIN^. 
Hypena ineffectalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 25.) 
Hypena inefFectalis, Wile. Cat. xvi. p, 85. 
Expanse ^ § inch. 
Male. Palpi with the second joint long, porrect, and roughly scaled, the third prominent, 
slender, and ohliqucly upturned. Smoky black-brown. Fore wing with indistinct ante- and 
postniedial w^aved dark lines ; some dai'k specks on discocellulars. Hind wing paler, with 
traces of a cell-spot and postmedial line. 
The unique type is in very bad condition. 
Hypena jocosalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 6.) 
Hypena jocosalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi. p. 57. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Palpi with the second joint very long, evenly scaled, the third long, naked, and obliquely 
upturned. Head and thorax purplish grey-brown ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing purplish 
grey-brown ; a deep black-brown triangular patch from the base to apex and near outer 
margin ; an indistinct much-waved antemedial line ; a speck at middle of cell ; a pale lunule 
on discocellulars ; a dai'k postmedial line, slightly angled at first median nervulc, and with a 
purplish-grey band with a dark line through it outside it ; an irregular grey subapical streak 
with two black dashes above it. Hind wing fuscous, with a dark marginal line. 
Hypena lignealis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 5.) 
Hypena lignealis, Wlk. Cat. xxsiv. p. 1138. 
Expanse 1 jV inch. 
Palpi with the second joint very long and thickly scaled on the upperside, the third 
prominent, obliquely upturned, and scaled. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; a large 
purplish-grey patch in, beyond, and below the cell ; oblique ante- and postmedial lines from 
the costa to subcostal nervure ; a black spot at centre of cell, and some black strigfe in and 
below the end of the cell; a white streak from the upper angle of cell to near outer margin, 
then curved upwards and broadening to the apex ; two small black dashes above it and two 
streaks below it. Hind wing dark fuscous. 
Hypena mandatalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 11.) 
Hypena mandatalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi. p. 58. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head, the second joint thickly scaled on the 
