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outside^ the third on both sides to neai* the apex. Head and thorax purplish fuscous ; 
abdomen pale brown, with rufous dorsal tufts. Fore wing dark purplish brown as far as the 
medial line, which is produced to two angles ; an antemedial rufous line, angled below the 
costa ; the outer half purplish grey, with two dark specks at end of cell ; a diffused subapical 
blackish patch; an indistinct waved submarginal series of specks; a marginal series of specks. 
Hind wing fuscous brown, with dark marginal line. 
Hypena molpusalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVl. fig. 12.) 
Hypeua molpusalis, WlJc. Cat. xix. p. 844. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Palpi with the second joint long, porrect, and evenly scaled, the third slightly scaled, 
upturned, and of medium length. Dark smoky brown ; abdomen with slight pale rings. 
Fore wing slightly irrorated with purplish-grey scales ; indistinct ante- and postmedial dentate 
lines ; a black speck at middle of cell ; an obscure greyish band beyond the postmedial line ; 
an indistinct series of submarginal whitish lunulcs, with two black subapical streaks beyond 
them; a marginal series of white specks. Hind wing with a marginal dark line. 
Hypena qusesitalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 4.) 
Hypena quaesitalis, WR-. Cat. xvi. p. 58. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Palpi as in mandatalis. Head and thorax reddish brown ; abdomen pale brown, with 
black dorsal tufts. Fore wing rufous brown, irrorated with purplish scales aiid suffused with 
purple-grey beyond the postmedial line ; an oblique antemedial white streak from the costa 
to median uervure, continued to submedian nervure as a streak of raised white scales with a 
black line inside them ; a black spot at centre of cell ; a speck of raised white scales on disco- 
cellulars ; a postmedial irregularly-waved erect white line ; two small white subapical lunules 
and an obscure waved submarginal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a marginal dark line 
with a white speck on it at centre. 
Hypena ferrealis. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 10.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male and Female. Fore wing dull chestnut-brown ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; 
a dark dot in the cell ; an erect brown line just beyond the middle, outwardly bordered with 
purple-grey ; an indistinct waved series of pale submarginal dots ; some pale specks on the 
costa before the apex ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing and underside fuscous ; fore wing with a 
subapical black and white spot. Palpi black with white tips ; they are recurved, the second 
joint reaching to the frontal tuft, the third joint in continuation of it long and of equal 
breadth throughout. 
This species is also found on the Nilgiris ; superficially it is very like H. iconicalis, but 
the palpi are very different. 
