. THYRIDOPHORA. 39 



4239. Niphopyralis albida, Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, p. 181, pi. 174 



fig. 25. 

 Niphopy rails suffidalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 299. 



Pure white. Fore wing with a few dark scales on discocellulars, 

 and traces of a pale fulvous oblique streak across apical area; 

 a black marginal speck on vein 2 of each wing. 



The Ceylon female is slightly sullied with fuscous and has a 

 slight marginal fuscous line, and the form suffidalis has the hind 

 wing mostly suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Bhutan; Bombay; Ceylon; Borneo. Exp., <$ 16, $20- 

 22 millim. 



Genus BANEPA. 

 Banepa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204 (1888). 



Type, B. atkinsoni, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint long, porrect, and clothed with hair, 

 the 3rd upturned and long; maxillary palpi well developed and 

 triangularly scaled ; proboscis minute ; antennas of male bipecti- 

 nated ; legs smoothly scaled, the spurs long. Fore wing with the 

 costa arched at base, then straight ; the apex produced ; the outer 

 margin excised from apex to vein 5, where it is excurved, then 

 oblique to outer angle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk. 



4240. Banepa atkinsoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204 ; C. # 8. no. 4491. 



Pale rufous, thickly suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with 



slightly sinuous antemedial 



"^s~ line with pale inner edge ; 



iH^l^ik s^S3^^ ^ black cell-spot : curved and 



if ^Ssr^S^x ^Ir minutely dentate postmedial 



V J f^^^>s 7^^. ^ Tie W ^k P a * e outer e( % e - 



^H^ 1^x^55 @^ Hind wing pale, with in- 



^SS^ distinct minutely dentate 



Fig. 24. Banepa atkinsoni, <$ . \. curved postmedial line. 



Underside pale, with slight 



fuscous suffusion; both wings with cell-gpots, curved crenulate 

 postmedial and marginal series of specks ; fore wing with black 

 spot on costa before the postmedial line ; hind wing with black 

 patch on outer margin near anal angle. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp., $ 34, $ 38 millim. 



Genus THYBIDOPHORA. 



Thyridophora, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. -310. 



Type, T.furia, Swinh. 



Range. Aden ; N.W. India. 



Palpi porrect and smoothly scaled, projecting about the length 



