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Antennae of male with slight sinus at base of shaft with scaly teeth in it. 

 Head and thorax ochreous, strongly irrorated with fuscous-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, tinged with fuscous. Forewing ochreous-grey, strongly irrorated 

 with fuscous-brown ; the autimedial line indistinct, whitish, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, interrupted below cell and angled inwards on vein 

 1 ; two dark discoidal points ; the subterminal line indistinct, whitish, 

 inwardly oblique from costa to vein 5, minutely dentate on veins 5 to 2 and 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, tinged with pale-brown ; a darker terminal line and fine line at 

 base of cilia. 



Habitat. — C. Asia, Samarkand ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley. Exp. 30 mill. 

 4359c. Nephopteryx myrmidonella, Rag. Rom. Mem., VIII., p. 103, pi. 

 XLIV, f. 7. 



Antennae of male with a slight sinus at base of shaft with tuft of black 

 scales in it, maxillary palpi flattened against the frons. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown and white, tbe head and thorax irror- 

 ated with some black scales. Forewing grey-brown, with fine white streaks 

 defining the subcostal and median nervures, the discal fold in cell and the 

 veins beyond the medial line which have dark streaks on them ; some black 

 irroration, especially on basal half of inner area ; a slightly sinuous medial 

 yellow line defined by rough black scales, forming a large tuft on inner side 

 below the ceil ; a black point at lower angle of cell. Hindwing, semihyaline 

 white, with fine brownish terminal line, diffused inwards in female. 



Habitat.— W. Africa, Old Calabar, Nigeria Borgu, E. Africa, Teita 

 (Jackson) ; Deesa (Nurse) ; Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole). Exp. $ 14, $ 10 mill. 

 4408. Phycita hyemalis transfer to Nephopteryx sect. PaUbothra 

 4360a and re-name the species with uniseriate branches to antennae Phycita 

 monopecten. n.n. ; the former occurs in Formosa, Simla, Sikhim, Ceylon and 

 Sierra Leone, the latter in Ceylon. 



4362a. Nephopteryx {PaUbothra) tumidella, n. sp. 

 Mid-femora of male with a tuft of long hair in a groove. 

 Head and thorax dark-brown, slightly mixed with grey ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Forewing dark-brown, slightly irrorated with grey ; the antemedial 

 band with its inner part olive-yellow, its outer pure white and defined on 

 each side by ridges of leaden scales ; the discoidal points obliquely placed on 

 a white patch which extends to costa and along it to the subterminal line 

 which is white defined by dark-brown, its medial part excurved ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing semihyaline white, the veins and termen 

 tinged with brown. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole). Exp. 16 mill. Type—In B. M. 

 4363a. Nephopteryx (Thylocojrtila) atrisquamella, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., 

 VIII., p. 551, pi. 57, f. 19. 



$. Fore and hindwings with streaks of black scales below costa on under- 

 side. Head and thorax black, slightly mixed with pale-brown ; abdomen grey 



