144 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



slightly dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, slightly oblique ; whitish-grey mixed with 

 fuscous ; a dark basal area, followed by a pale area, which ex- 

 tends to mid-disc ; a series of dark-fuscous terminal dots ; cilia 

 grey with fine whitish irroration. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded; cell very short, vein 3 diver^jing from angle ; fuscous- 

 whitish, thinly scaled, darker towards termen ; cilia whitish 

 with a darker basal line. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane, in January ; one specimen. 



Gen. 32. Tephris. 



Tephris, Rag., Mon. Phyc, p. 446. Hmps. Moths Ind., iv. 

 p. 106. 



Allied to Xep/ioptery.r, from which it dift'ers in the peculiar 

 palpi. 



TEPHRIS GLAUCOBASIS, 



Tephris i/Iaucobasis, Low., Tr. R.S.S.A., 1903, p. 56. 



Slightly variable in its markings. 



N.Q., Geraldton, in May ; one 3 received from Mr, Harold 

 Brown. Townsville, in February ; one very perfect ? received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd, agreeing closely with type. 



Ge7i. 33. Nephopteryx. 

 Nephoptenjd-, Hb., Verz., p. 370. Hmps. Moths Ind. IV., 



p. 76. 



I distinguish this genu^ from P/n/cita by the origin of vein 

 2 of hindwings, which arises from angle, or from close before 

 angle of cell. 



Whether the first six species come under this definition I 

 cannot of course decide. 



t nephopteryx atrisquamella. 



Nejjiioptery.v utiisquameJla, Hmps. 



N.Q., Cooktown. 



t nephopteryx flaveotincta. 



Myeloisjiaveotinctu, Luc, P.L S.N.S.W. 1892, p. 26.5. 



Q., Duaringa, Brisbane. 



ft nephopteryx infusella. 

 Nephopteryx infusella, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W., 1880, p. 218. 

 Q., Duaringa. 



II nephopteryx euraphella. 

 Nephopteryx euraphella, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W., 1880, p. 217. 

 N.S.W., WoUongong. 



