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Nephodia Hub. 



Three species are referred by Hiibner to this geuus in the ZiUn'ige, viz., 

 nubilaria, ii., p. 32, No. 198, figs. 395, 396 ; aerinaria, iii., p. 16, Xo. 226, figs. 451, 

 452 ; and vupararki, iii., p. 22, No. 23S, figs. 475, 476. Of these the first, nubilaria, 

 is also mentioned in the Verz., p. 312, No. 3017, and this will stand as type of the 

 genus. Among the species placed by Guenee in his Nipteria occur some with tin- 

 ? antennae pectinated like the cJ, and others with them simple. I am not aware 

 that the ? of Hiibner's type species niihilarui is known ; hut the figure of the c? i^ 

 so manifestly akin to discolornria II. S., which has pectinated antennae in the ?, 

 that I have no hesitation in retaining the name for this group ; in which case Guenee's 

 generic term Nipteria may be reserved for those sjiecies which have the antennae 

 of the ? simple. 



Nephodia styracaria .-p. no\ . (Jlorritz !M!S. in Fcld. coll.j. 



E.xtremelv like incoloraria Guen., and of the same size ; but the tint is more 

 luteous, less grey ; and the antennae of the ? are pectinated. 



No doubt, from their great similarity, the two species are often confounded, 

 especially the 3S  



Nipteria grisescens sp. nov. 



Wings silky grey, without the luteous tint of vulgaris ^^'arr., from which it also 

 differs bv its larger size and in having the lines of the underside more apparent 

 above. Underneath, the line is not marked by black dots on the nervules, but by a 

 broadish dark fascia, and the wing is generally much more thickly mottled and 

 shaded with grey or fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



Three S <S and two ? ? from Bnizil. 



Nipteria vulgaris sp. nov. 



Like ciei-ltuiria Hiib., and iibout the same size ; not so silky in ai)i)earance, and 

 with a slight but perceptible elbow in the hiudmargin ; more thickly scaled tbrougli- 

 out, and not showing the pale space along the inner margin ; instead of a curved dark 

 shaded line as in aerimaria, the line is fine, straight, and oblique from the costa 

 near the apex. On the underside it is well marked by black points on the veins, 

 whereas it is not represented at all in (terinaria. 



Two (J S , fom- S ? from Petropolis, Santos, and Sao Paolo. 



Nipteria munda sp. nov. 



Forewings silky gi"ey, paler in the median area; a distinct and comjiaratively 

 hirge, blackish cell spot ; an oblique dark line slightly waved from the costa before 

 apex, which becomes obsolete on reaching the third median nervnle. Hindwings 

 with only the cell .spot. Undcr.side more striated, with the line marked distinctly, 

 but more thickly, in both wings. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



Two c? <? from Sao Paolo. 



The smallest siiecies of the genus. 



