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NOCTUID^. 
Hypena adustalis. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 7.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Fore wing narrow, the apex rectangular, the outer margin excurved at the 
median nervules ; pale wainscot-brown thickly powdered with black scales ; a very indistinct 
dark mark at the end of the cell ; a waved postmedial line ; a snbmarginal series of white 
specks on the nervules, the one on the radial placed out of line towards the base; a marginal 
series of black specks. Hind wing and underside pale fuscous. 
This species belongs to the group containing H. tripunctalis , Brem., and H. urticola, Butl. 
Hypena varialis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 13.) 
Hypena varialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1136. 
Expanse ]^ inch. 
Palpi with the second joint long, porrect, and thickly scaled on upperside, the third 
upturned, the inner side tufted with scales. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown. 
Fore wing purplish fuscous, with a white fascia from the base above submedian ncrvure to a 
whitish area at outer angle ; an irregularly-dentate antemedial line nearly meeting an irregu- 
larly-waved oblique postmedial line on submedian nervure ; a dark speck at centre of cell, and 
white spot on blackish patch at end of it ; an irregular subapical white streak, with two small 
black dashes above it and two black streaks below it. Hind wing fuscous, with dark 
marginal line. 
Hypena thermesialis, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 14.) 
Hypena thermesialis, Wlh. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1515. 
Expanse 1|^ inch. 
Palpi upturned and sickle-shaped, the second joint reaching vertex of head and evenly 
scaled, the third long and evenly scaled to near the apex, which is naked. Fuscous brown. 
Fore wing red-brown to the medial line, which is white, straight, and inwardly oblique ; a 
dark speck at centre of cell ; some white costal specks towards apex ; an obscure apical 
irregular grey streak. Hind wing with marginal line and two lines through the cilia. 
Hypena ohfuscalis. (Plate CLXVI. figs. 18, 19.) 
Expanse 1^ mch. 
Male. Fore wing dingy hair-brown, crossed by a waved antemedial ferruginous line with 
pale inner edge, a straight outwardly-oblique postmedial line with pale outer edge, and an 
indistinct dentate dark submarginal line, with two white specks on it, below the apex ; a black 
speck in the middle of the cell ; a pale marginal series of specks ; four white strigse on the 
costa before the apex. Hind wing uniform fuscous. Underside rather paler, with a white 
