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abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous. Tore wing narrow ; 

 ochreous olive-brown, the basal area and apical third of winp dull 

 vinous red ; a small white patch on basal part of costa ; a large 

 medial white patch on costa irrorated with a few black scales, and 

 enclosing the black discocellular patch ; an oblique autemedial 

 white line, with some raised red scales on its outer edge, widening 

 at costa; an oblique postmedial white line angled at middle; a 

 white streak separating the ochreous and red areas on disk ; outer 

 area irrorated with white. Hind wing semihy aline brownish 

 yellow ; cilia paler. 



Hob. Karachi. Eocp. 18 millini. 



b'. Hind wing of male with the basal inner area clothed with 

 ochreous scales, beyond which are short black streaks on the veins. 



4369. Nephopteryx strigivenata, n. sp. 



3 . Head ochreous and brown, with some black at base of palpi 

 and on antennal tuft ; thorax grey ; abdomen fuscous brown, with 

 some grey on dorsum of basal segments. Fore wing grey, irrorated 

 with fuscous and purplish scales ; the basal half of inner area with 

 an ochreous tinge, and black subbasal specks on vein 1 ; a fine 

 medial deep black line obsolete towards costa and bent outwards 

 to inner margin ; a fine black discocellular line ; fine black sub- 

 marginal and marginal lines, the former slightly bent outwards at 

 vein 5. Hind wing hyaline, with the ochreous and black sexual 

 markings ; the apex fuscous ; a fine fuscous marginal line and line 

 through the cilia. 



Hob. Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 22 millim. Type in B. M. 



b. (Oligochroa). Antennae of male thickened and flattened. 



4370. Nephopteryx leucophaeella, Zell Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 390 ; 



Hag. Mon. Phyc. p. 378, pi. xii, fig. 15. 



cJ . Head and thorax fuscous black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 fuscous black ; a few grey scales on median nervure ; a patch of 

 grey scales on middle of inner margin and a black spot surrounded 

 by grey scales on vein 1 ; the veins beyond the cell with a few 

 grey scales on them and a series of short dark streaks. Kind 

 wing pure white, the apex slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Hob. Calcutta. Exp. 24 mm. 



4371. Nephopteryx akbarella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 20; Mon. Phyc. 



p. 391, pi. xv, fig. 19 ; a $ S. no. 4590. 



Spermatophthora pulverulenta, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 336 Raq 

 Mon. Phyc. p. 392, pi. xli, fig. 18 ; C. $ S. no. 4507. 



Ochreous. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous, leaving an 

 ochreous streak in the cell and another below median nervure ; 

 traces of three medial dark specks on the veins, the speck on vein 1 



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