Hypena laceratalis Walker, 1859

Identification Marks: Palpi are extremely long and porrect, 2nd and 3rd joints fringed on both sides with long hairs. Fore wing somewhat narrower, the outer margin more obliquely rounded. Head, thorax, abdomen and wings are grey-brown. Fore wings are with antemedial oblique ferruginous line; dark specks at centre and end of cell; a sinuous erect ferruginous postmedial line; a prominent curved apical streak with two black specks on its upper edge; three white specks on the costa towards apex. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. The colour of the fore wing may be almost uniform with dark striae and the markings indistinct; or the basal, inner and lower half of outer areas may be violaceous grey or slightly suffused with that colour and with a patch of it on the costa beyond the postmedial line. (W.S. 22 mm).