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oxcurved at middle, the area beyond it darker ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunulcs. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with 

 brown, especially towards termen ; cilia white with a brown line 



Fig. 45. — Hadula incommoda, cJ • !• 



through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 

 Rah. Amubland, Ussuri, 1 J . Ex]). 34 millim. 



Genus NEPHELISTIS, nov. 



Type, iV. congenitaUs. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned reaching vertex of head ; frons 

 with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, 

 rounded ; head and thorax clothed principally with scales, the pro- and nieta- 

 thorax with spreading crests; tibise fringed with hair; abdomen with large 

 dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocelluLirs ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches to near apes. 

 1482. Nephelistis congenitalis, n. sp. 



Tceniocampa vellerea, Druce, Biol, Centr.-Amer., Ilet. ii. p. 484 (part.), 

 nee Schaus. 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown tinged with grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown. Fore wing brown suffused with purplish grey ; 

 subbasal line represented by some white scales from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, grey ; the medial area 



Fig. 46. — Ncphclistis congenitalis, cJ. \. 



suffused with dark olive-brown from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; 

 the orbicular and reuiform only defined by a few white scales on 

 their inner and outer edges ; the postmedial line indistinct, white, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some paler suffusion beyond it and some white points on 



