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with black subdorsal patches, the ventral surface irrorated with black. Fore- 

 wing black, irrorated with leaden grey scales ; the inner and terminal areas 

 obscurely tinged with brown ; faint traces of a black medial line and 

 discoidal series of points ; a more distinct subterminal greyish line, defined on 

 each side by black and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hindwing hyaline white, the termen tinged with brown. 



$. Rather browner. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Puttalam, Matale ; Queensland, Cooktown. Exp. 21-26 

 mill. 



4363&. Nephofteryx albifascialis, n. sp. 



ft. Legs and hindwing normal. 



Head white and brown with some purple-red scales ; the brush-like 

 maxillary palpi fulvous ; thorax and legs purplish black-brown with whitish 

 patches on tibiae ; abdomen brownish-ochreous, tinged with dark-brown at 

 base and extremity. Forewing black-brown ; the inner and terminal areas 

 mixed with grey and red-brown scales ; a pure white slightly curved fascia 

 from below costa near base to apex. Hindwing semihyaline ochreous-white, 

 the costa and termen tinged with brown ; cilia white, brown at base. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Matale (Pole). Exp. 20 mill. Type —In B. M. 



4364a. Nephofteryx striginervella, n. sp. 



Palpi of male hollowed out to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi ; 

 antennae with slight ridge of scales at base, ending in a projecting point, the 

 shaft serrate and fasciculate. 



ft. White, with an ochreous-brown tinge ; antennae with the shaft black- 

 ish ; palpi with dark streaks ; thorax with a few dark scales. Forewing 

 irrorated with some red-brown scales ; an oblique antemedial series of 

 reddish and black streaks lengthening towards inner margin and with an 

 obscure line beyond them ; raised bosses of pale and black scales at and below 

 lower angle of cell ; the veins of outer area streaked with dark red and 

 black. Hindwing yellowish semihyaline white. 



Habitat.— Ceylon (J. Pole). Exp. 18 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4370a. Nefhopteryx rubralis, n. sp. 



ft . With streaks of black scales on underside below basal half of costa of 

 forewing and subcostal nervure of hindwing. 



Head and thorax ocbreous, strongly tinged with red-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Forewing ochreous, tinged with red-brown, the inner and terminal 

 areas irrorated with fuscous ; the 1st line medial, whitish, diffused, enclosing 

 a black point on vein 1 and with diffused dark scales on its edges; lower 

 discoidal point prominent, black, the upper indistinct ; the 2nd line subter- 

 minal, formed of small dentate white marks on blackish streaks on the veins ; 

 an indistinct terminal series of dark points. Hindwing yellowish-white. 



5 . Head, thorax and forewing redder, the last with hardly a trace of the 

 blackish markings. 



Habitat.— Madras (Watson). Exp. 20 mill. Type— In B. M. 



