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uj^per median on a footstalk at nearly half beyond end of the cell, middle median from 

 end of cell, lower at nearly one-tliird before the end ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins. Body slender ; labial palpi obliquely ascending, rather slender, squamous, 

 apical joint very short; maxillary palpi distinct, slender; antennte thick, finely 

 pubescent in front, base of shaft twisted and somewhat tumid ; legs rather stout, 

 short, squamous, spurs slender, unequal. 

 Type, N. rhenella. 



NEPHOPTERYX ACISALIS. 

 Neplwpterijx adsalis, Walker, Ciital. Lep. Hot. B. M. xxvii. p. 66 (1863). 



Cinereous-brown : forewing crossed by indistinct cinereous -bordered blackish 

 denticulated lines, of w^hich the antemedial and postraedial are more distinctly black 

 pointed ; a black spot at end of the cell, and a marginal row of black spots : hind- 

 wing, body, and legs paler cinereous-brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 

 Expanse d tu inch. 



NEPHOPTERYX PHYCISELLA. 

 Nephoptenjx Phycisella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 957 (1864). 

 " Female. Ferruginous-cinereous ; forewing speckled with ferruginous, and 

 with a blackish oblique interior band, which is concise on the inner side and diffuse 

 exteriorly ; hindwing cinereous. Thorax with a blackish band; abdomen cinereous. 

 " Expanse 12 lines." 



NEPHOPTERYX (?) ETOLUSALIS. 

 Nep}wpteri/x{?) Etolusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 64 (18G3). 

 " Female. Brown, brownish-cinereous beneath. Forewings narrow, rounded 

 at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior border ; lines indistinct and incom- 

 plete, represented by black pale-bordered points ; a subquadrate whitish-cinereous 

 patch extending from the interior border to the reniform mark, which has a pale 

 incomplete subquadrate border: hindwings brownish -cinereous. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending, hardly rising above the vertex, third joint acutely conical, less than half- 

 leno-th of second : abdomen cinereous, extending some distance beyond the hindwings ; 

 legs stout ; spurs very long. 

 " Expanse 10 lines." 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. 

 Layard. 



NEPHOPTERYX (?) HARPAXALIS. 

 Nephopteryx {■') Harpaxalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 65 (1863). 

 " Male. Cinereous, a httle paler beneath. Forewings a little broader than those 



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