1 J T E R 0 N YCT A. H l'POT I! I SUL A . 
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Pteronycta fasciata, 11 . >[). 
Head and thorax grey-brown, the former with the vertex 
defined by black lines ; antennae pale rufous with some 
blackish on shaft near base ; palpi black at sides ; frons with 
lateral black bars ; tegulae black at base ; patagia with the 
outer part black and with black streak near upper edge which is 
greenish ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown irro- 
rated with blackish. Fore wing grey- white tinged with flesh 
colour and irrorated with blackish, some greenish above base 
of vein 1 and on medial area, a short black streak below base 
of costa ; antemedial line double, black, excurved and slightly 
waved to submedian fold where it is angled inwards and 
emits a black streak to base, then excurved and connected by 
a short black streak on vein 1 with the postmedial line ; 
an oblique black shade from just below middle of costa to 
middle of discocellulars where it emits a black fascia above 
vein 5 to termen ; postmedial line double, black, slightly 
waved, oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique and 
angled inwards on vein 1 to near the antemedial line, a black 
fascia from it to termen in submedian fold ; an indistinct 
waved whitish subterminal line defined on inner side by 
rufous ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing 
whitish tinged with red-brown, in female more strongly 
suffused with red-brown ; a terminal series of black points ; 
the underside with small black discoidal spots and with traces 
of diffused sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. 
Hab. Br. C. Africa, Zomba {Ballard), 1 1 $ type ; 
Mt. Mlange ( Neave ), 1 $. Exp. $ 34, $ 46 millim. 
The larva bores in the stem of the Cotton plant. 
Genus HYPOTRISULA, n..v. 
Type, H. boarmioides, Walk. ( Steiria ), xxxiii. 923 (1865) ; 
Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 438 (1894). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 
2nd joint reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd long ; frons 
smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost 
simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without 
crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen Avith 
dorsal crest at base only. Fore Aving with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly cuiwed and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 
5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 
anastomosing Avith 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; Amins 3, 4 
stalked ; 5 fully deA'eloped from well aboAm angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
