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CATALOGUE OF 
Hypena Sabbasalis. 
Mas. Testacea , aniice cervina ; palpi longi , graciles ; articulo 2 o 
porrecto late jimbriato , lanceolato ; alee sat angustce ; anticee 
cervino submar ginatee, lineis interior e exteriore et submarginali 
undulatis indistinctis , reniformi e punctis duobus nigris , punctis 
marginalibus trigonis nigris ; posticce albido-cinerece , lunulis 
marginalibus nigricantibus. 
Male. Testaceous. Head and thorax fawn-colour. Palpi 
long, slender; second joint porrect, broadly fringed above, third 
lanceolate, nearly one-third of the length of the second, with which 
it forms a very obtuse angle. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings 
partly and irregularly fawn-colour along the costa and along the 
exterior border ; interior, exterior and submarginal lines undulating, 
indistinct, darker than the ground colour; reniform mark indicated 
by two black points ; exterior border rather oblique, with triangular 
black points. Hind wings whitish cinereous, with blackish marginal 
lunules. Length of the body 4i lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Of the eighth South American group. 
Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry’s collection. 
Hypena Molpusalis. 
Mas. Obscure cinereo-fusca , sat valida ; fasciculus frontalis por- 
rectus ; palpi validi , porrecti , angulati , thorace breviores, arti- 
culo So lanceolato ; anteUnce pubescentes ; abdomen alas posticas 
vix superans , segmentis cinereo marginatis ; alee anticee acutee , 
vix falcatee , nigricante notatee , lineis tribus cinereis dentatis 
deviis , lunulis marginalibus nigricantibus albido marginatis , 
reniformi indeterminata ; posticee cinereo-fuscee , linea mar- 
ginali ob s cur iore punctis patlidis . 
Male. Dark cinereous-brown, moderately stout, cinereous be- 
neath. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi stout, porrect, shorter than 
the thorax ; third joint lanceolate, about one-third of the length of 
the second, with which it forms an angle. Antennae pubescent. 
Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings ; hind borders 
of the segments cinereous. Fore wings acute, almost subfalcate, 
with blackish marks here and there ; interior, exterior, and submar- 
ginal lines cinereous, dentate, irregular ; marginal lunules blackish; 
whitish-bordered ; reniform mark indeterminate ; under side with a 
