SCALY WINGED COPEOGNATHA. 95 
Nepticulomima, n. g. 
(Type: N. Sakuntala, n. sp.) 
Wings more or less acuminate. The first radial branch (r,) in 
the hind wing arises between the origins of m, andr,4,. In the 
fore wing, 7, is fused with the peduncle of the radial fork over a 
short stretch or in one point. 
Claws with one tooth before the apex. Antenne, in NV. Sakuntala, 
24-jointed (fig. 125). Scales fusiform (figs. 83, 87, 91), ovate 
(fig. 85), spatuliform with more or less straight-cut or faintly 
concave end (fig. 89), the cover scales larger and slenderer. The 
three ocelli far apart from one another. Forehead and vertex with 
very long and closely placed hairs. Antennary joints relatively 
long. 
TABLE OF SPECIES.* 
1. Fossil in the copal of Zanzibar .. mortua (Hag. 1865). 
Recent a sega: 
2. Scales  spatuliform. Head polished 
smooth, very shortly and_ sparsely 
hairy. Scaling of fore wing brownish 
black with deep metallic green lustre. 
Legs uniformly yellow-brown, apices of 
the femora brown above. Head brown chalcomelas. n. sp. 
Scales fusiform or ovate. Head dull, pale 
brownish ; long and closely hairy aoe 
3. Fore wing brown or gray-brown, with 
extensive silvery or brass-coloured 
marking oe 
Fore wing yellow-brown or gray-brown 
with small straw yellowish marginal 
spots between the ends of the veins _.._ 5. 
4 Fore wing dark brown with brass yellow 
spots with metallic lustre, and trans- 
verse streaks ; at the end of the basal 
third a moderately broad very dark 
brown cross band. Legs black-brown ; 
the following parts pale brownish 
yellow :—Trochanters, a broad band 
before the apex of the femora, a 
narrower ring at the end of the first 
third of the tibia, apex of the tibia, 
distal half of the first tarsal join and 
last tarsal joint a .. Lssigkeana, n. sp. 


* N. birotana., Enderl., 1903, is not ineluded in this table. 
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