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4363. Nephopteryx paurosema, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii, 1885, 



p. 106 ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 321. 



Bussa maculella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 24 ; Mon. Phyc. p. 322, 

 pi. xiii, fig. 21. 



c? . Maxillary palpi ochreous ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; the basal two-thirds of 

 costa whitish ; a large blackish antemedial oval patch not reaching 



Fig. 52. Nephopteryx paurosema, <$ . {. 



costa and becoming brown near inner margin : two minute dark 

 discocellular specks ; an indistinct postmedial white line bent 

 outwards and minutely dentate between veins 5 and 2, then 

 angled inwards ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing 

 iridescent hyaline white, the apex tinged with brown ; the ridges 

 on inner area ochreous. 



Hob. Cape Verd Islands ; W. Africa ; Aden ; Assam ; Ceylon. 

 Exp. 20-24 millirn. 



B. (Melathrix). Antennce of male with the base of shaft thickened by 

 a ridge of scales, but without sinus, the shaft strongly ciliated. 



4364. Nephopteryx praetextella, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xii, 

 p. 279, pi. viii, fig. 51 ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 436, pi. xvii, fig. 15. 



Ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; maxillary palpi black. 

 Fore wing with slight grey tinge ; the fuscous irroration thickest 

 on the marginal areas, the outer part of inner margin and the 

 outer area sometimes suffused with fuscous; a dark speck on 

 middle of vein 1 and another at lower angle of cell ; traces of a 

 submarginal minutely dentate line or series of specks ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the apical 

 area tinged with fuscous. Underside of male with a black sub- 

 costal streak to fore wing from near base to beyond middle ; hind 

 wing with a black streak on base of vein 8. 



Hab. Siberia ; Punjab ; Sind ; Bombay ; Burma. Exp. 20-26 

 millirn. 



C. (Pristarthria). Antennae of male witJi a sinus at 

 base of shaft with scale-teeth in it. 



4365. Nephopteryx mlnutella, Rag. Bull Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. cl ; 



Mon. Phyc. p. 326, pi. xiv, fig. 16 ; C. $ S. no. 4594. 

 Oligochroa soricinella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 20 ; C. fy S. no. 4593. 



Pale brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing with a black speck 

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