COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
          INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                       Number 1161

                                 Konkoly Observatory
                                 Budapest
                                 1976 August 2



              THE DWARF NOVA WX HYDRI




    WX Hyi has supermaxima with a mean visual magnitude of 11.41
and normal maxima, which are sharp and steep, having a mean visual 
maximum magnitude of 12.5. The mean interval between maxima, of
all types, is 13.7 days. Successive supermaxima occur at mean 
intervals of 195.4 days but have a wide spread from 144.1 to 284.6
days.
    This variables appears to be a member of the SU UMa subgroup 
of U Gem variables, and its variations strongly resemble
those of the type star, SU UMa. Seventy-seven maxima have been 
observed in the interval JD 2,441,066 to 2,442,743. The observations
and light curve appear in Publications No. 4 (C76) of the Variable
Star Section, Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (In Press).





                           FRANK M. BATESON

                             Director
                     Variable Star Section, R.A.S.N.Z.
                     18 Pooles Road, Greerton, Tauranga,
                            New Zealand.