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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 83 hind wing with narrow indistinct discal spot and outer recurved transverse band. Female. Fore wing darker; costal and transverse discal band ochreous, both well defined ; the black submarginal spots without white borders : hind wing with the transverse discal pale narrow band more distinct. Underside as in male. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Genus HYPENA, Schr. HYPENA LACESSALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. Delt. p. 59. H. ABDUCALIS, Walk. ib. p. 66. II. CONSCITALIS, Walk. ib. xxxiv. Suppl. iv. p. 1509. Cherra Poonjee. II. EXTENSA, Walk. ib. p. 1139. H. TENEBRALIS, n. sp. Male and female blackish cupreous brown : fore wing chalybeous-speckled, and indistinctly marked with short blackish strigse ; a medial transverse brown band with pale-bordered black marginal line ; orbicular and reniform spots black ; a submarginal row of posteriorly decreasing black spots, which are exteriorly bordered with white speckles ; apex white-speckled, beneath which is a black streak: hind wing and abdomen paler brown. Abdomen with dark brown dorsal tufts. Underside uniform brown : fore wing with a white spot before the apex: hind wing with a black discal mark and two indistinct narrow outer bands. Expanse 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll.W. S. Atkinson; F. Moore. H. CERVINALIS, 11. Sp. Male and female fawn-colour : fore wing with numerous narrow transverse delicate indistinct black strigse; two medial transverse ochreous-brown pale-bordered lines ; orbicular spot white ; reniform spot black ; an indistinct black spot before the apex ; marginal line dark ; cilia with a pale inner line. Underside paler; short brown strigse and blackish discal spot on the hind wing, which are less apparent on the fore wing. Palpi and front of head blackish. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. H. COSTINOTALIS, 11. Sp. Male and female ferruginous; minutely and indistinctly black-speckled : fore wing with three equidistant pure-white costal spots ; both wings with a black discal dot, outer transverse black-speckled wavy line, and marginal rows of dots ; cilia reddish. Top of the head white. Antennse with a row of white dots along the base of |