76 LEPIDOPTBROLOGICAL GLPJANIXGS. 



Tongue absent. Palpi .short (I), tslendor. cylindrical, 

 smooth-scaled, porrect ; terminal joint minute. Maxillary 

 palpi obsolete. Antenna? with an anterior ttift of scalea 

 from basal joint ; in ^ bipectinated, apex simple. Posterior 

 tibiae in ^ with a single long median spur, outer median spur 

 absent, in 9 with both median spiu's absent. Forewings 

 short and rounded : 8 and 9 stalked. Hind wings with 3, 

 4, and 5 separate but approximated at base, discocellular 

 very obUque, 6 and 7 stalked and anastomosing soon after 

 origin with 8. 



An isolated and singular genus, which has somewhat 

 of the facies of one of the Nolince. There is only one 

 known species, which has no close allies. 



NIPHOPYRALIS NIVALIS. 



Niphopj/ralis nivalis, Hmps.. 111. Het., ix, p. 181, pi. 174 

 f. ((J) ; Moths Ind., iv, p. 38. 



NipJiopyralis albida, Hmps., 111. Het., ix, p. 181, pi. 174, 

 f. 25 (9) : Moths Ind.. iv. p. 39. 



Niphopyralis contawinata, Hamps., III. Het., ix, p. 181, 

 pi. 174, f. 14 (5 var.) : Moths Ind., iv, p. 38. 



Q . 10-15 mm. Head and palpi wliite. Antennae 

 whitish-ochreous ; pectinations 2i, apical ^^ simple. Thorax 

 white, sometimes irrorated with pale ochreous-fuscous. 

 Abdomen white. Legs white : anterior pair fuscous 

 anteriorly. Forewings rounded-oblong, costa strongly 

 arched at base, thence moderately, apex rounded, termen 

 obliqiiely rounded, white ; suffused more or less with pale 

 ochreous-fuscous ; a fine dentate line from \ costa to mid- 

 dorsum : a dark-fuscous discal dot beneath § costa ; cilia 

 white mixed with pale ochreous-fuscous. Hindwings 



with termen rounded ; white ; cilia white. 



9 . 20-24 mm. Both wings white with a fine fuscous 

 terminal line ; uiaikings of forewing obsolete. 



Var. (J contaniinala. Forewing partly suffused with 

 dark-fuscous posteriorly. 



N.Q. Townsville, from September to March ; a series 

 received from Mr, F. P. Dodd. Also from Borneo, Ceylon, 

 and India. 



