BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 145 



ft NEPHOPTERYX MELANOSTYLA. 



Nephopteryx) melanostyla, Meyr., P.L S.N.S.W., 1880, p. 

 220. 



N.S.W., Sydney. 



tf NEPHOPTERYX PETALOCOSMA. 



Nephopteryx petalocosma, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W., 1882, p. 169. 

 N.S.W., Sydney. 



NEPHOPTERYX PAUROSEMA. 



Thylacoptila paurosema, Meyr., Ent. Mo. Mag. 1885, p. 106. 

 Hmps., Moths ind. iv, p. 81. 



N.Q., Townsville, in October; one ^ received from Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd. Also from Ceylon, India, and Africa. 



NEPHOPTERYX LEUCOPHAEELLA. 



Nephopteryx leucophaeella, Zel., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1867, 

 p. 390. Hmps., Moths Ind., iv, p. 83. 



N.Q., Cairns, in August ; one $ . Also from India. 



NEPHOPTERYX DASPYTERA. 



Nephopteryx daspytera, Low., Tr. R.S.S.A. 1903, p. 55. 

 I have examined the type and compared it with a small 

 series in my own collection. 



Q., Brisbane, in March, April and May. 



ft NEPHOPTERYX PLACOXANTHA. 



Salebrid placoxantha, Low., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1898, p. 46. 

 N.S.W., Broken Hill. 



NEPHOPTERYX MINUTELLA. 



Nephopteryx minutella, Rag., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 150. 



Mon. Phyc. p. 826, PI. xiv. f. 16. Hmps., Moths Ind. 

 iv. p. 81. 



N.Q., Townsville. one % in August. Q., Brisbane ; South- 

 port ; three 5 in February and March. 



NEPHOPTERYX SYNTARACTIS. 



(o-uvTapa/cTos, confused.) 



(J ^ 22-24 11^111.. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi slightly 

 exceeding vertex, terminal joint short, acute ; grey, posteriorly 

 ochreous-whitish. Antennae grey ; in ^ with basal joint 

 enlarged and succeeded by a groove containing a large tuft of 

 scales, thence thickened, simple, and minutely ciliated {yq). 

 Thorax grey. Abdomen ochreous-whitish ; three basal segments 

 in ^ dark-fuscous, in ^ only with median basal fuscous dots. 

 Legs grey mixed with whitish ; middle pair in <? suffused with 

 dark-fuscous ; middle and posterior femora and tibae in ^ with 

 an oblique median fuscous band. Forewings elongate, strongly 



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