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PHYCID^B. 

 NEPHOPTERYX Z. 



Antennae filiform, in <$ sinuate above basal joint, with a tuft 

 of scales in the sinuation. Labial palpi compressed, ascending or 

 porrected ; terminal joint moderately long. Maxillary palpi 

 short, filiform, appressed, alike in both sexes. Forewings long 

 and rather narrow, costa slightly curved ; hindwings moderately 

 broad, slightly indented. Forewings with 11 veins; 4 and 5 

 separate. Hindwings with 8 veins ; 2 rising close before poste- 

 rior angle of cell; 3, 4, 5 on a stalk from posterior angle of cell. 



A rather large genus, of almost universal distribution. 



A. Hind wings yellow 2. opimella. 



B. whitish-grey 1. stenopterella. 



Neph. stenopterella, n. sp. 



7J" Sy. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish, very minutely and 

 densely irrorated with whitish; labial palpi straight, porrected, in 

 J 1 rather longer than head, in $ nearly twice as long as head. 

 Antennae fuscous, in very finely ciliated, with a large elongate 

 tuft of black scales in sinuation. Abdomen grey, segmental mar- 

 gins and anal tuft whitish-ochreous, second and third segments 

 from base entirely bright ochreous. Legs blackish, very densely 

 irrorated with whitish, tarsi with slender whitish rings at apex of 

 joints, posterior tibiae with a slender oblique black band towards 

 apex. Forewings elongate, very narrow, hardly dilated, costa 

 hardly arched, hindmargin very oblique, rounded ; blackish, very 

 densely strewn with whitish scales, so as sometimes almost to con- 

 ceal the ground colour, more blackish in $ ; first line rather in- 

 distinct, double, black, both sections very slender, very irregu- 

 larly waved, emitting several acute teeth posteriorly ; on inner 

 margin, at junction of first line, is a short transverse ochreous- 

 reddish spot, strongly margined internally with black ; about 

 middle of inner margin is a second less distinct reddish spot, 

 united to a double black discal spot beyond middle by an oblique 

 slender blackish cloud ; second line blackish, double, very oblique, 

 from a little before apex to a little before anal angle, shortly but 

 acutely angulated inwards above middle, and again before inner 



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