THE MOTHS OF INDIA . 263 



dilated with scales : frons smooth ; antennas of female ciliated ; tibiae 

 smoothly scaled. Forewiug narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 8-9 stalked ; 10 from cell, approximated to 8'9 ; 11 from 

 cell. Hindwing with vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 from 

 angle, 4 absent ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to near apex. 

 4346. b. Neasarta nyctichroalis, n. sp. 



9 . Black-brown ; tarsi ringed with white. Forewing irrorated with greyish 



and faintly tinged with purple ; a 

 faint diffused obliquely curved an- 

 temedial greyish band ;a pale point 

 on costa towards apex ; cilia with 

 a fine pale line at base followed by 



a dark line. Hindwing with a 



Neasarta nuctichro'i 1 '/. 9 4 ,. • \ ,■ i l- • ,■ -^ 



* - faint purplish tinge ; cilia with a 



fine pale line at base followed by a dark line. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskelyia (J. Pole). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B.M. 



4355. a. NEPHOPTERYX IIEMIAKGYRALIS,n. sp. 



£. Head ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi brown, rufous at tips; antennas 

 blackish ; teguke rufous ; thorax brown suffused with leaden grey ; pectus and 

 legs ochreous white, the tarsi brown slightly ringed with white ; abdomen 

 reddish brown. Forewing red-brown, the costal area broadly silvery white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the costal edge tinged with rufous and with dark 

 brown streak on medial area, the white extending to vein 1 beyond antemedial 

 line and on terminal area to vein 2 ; antemedial line double, black filled in with 

 white, obsolete on costal area and below vein 1, oblique from subcostal nervure 

 to below cell when there is a small black spot on its outer edge, then bent 

 inwards ; two large black discoidal points ; postmedial line white defined on 

 each side by brown, oblique from costa to discal fold where it is angled inwards, 

 angled outwards at vein 5, then oblique and very minutely dentate ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots ; cilia pale brown with a fine whitish line 

 near base. Hindwing whitish uniformly suffused with brown ; a fine dark 

 erminal line ; cilia pale brown with a fine whitish line at base followed by a 

 slight brown line. 



Habitat. — Assam. Khasis. Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



4363. a. Nephopteryx (Salebria) atribasalis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; the tufted maxillary palpi 

 fulvous at tips ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black : abdomen whitish irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Forewing white 

 irrorated with black and tinged with grey except the costal area to postmedial 

 line ; the basal area below the cell suffused with fuscous ; antemedial line white, 

 oblique, defined by black on outer side from costa to median nervure, then by 

 black on inner side ; the discoidal points in the form of short black streaks at 

 upper and lower angle of cell ; postmedial line white strongly defined on each 

 side by black towards costa, then slightly defined, oblique, sinuous, excurved 



