TEPHEIS. 107 



SECT. I. (Caina). Antennae of male thickened and laminate; 

 hind wing with vein 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4430. Tephris inanitella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 25 ; id. Mon. Phyc. p. 464, 



pi. xlvii, fig. 7 ; C. # S. no. 4599. 

 Caina micrella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. vi, fig. 25. 

 Caina deletella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. xxvi, fig. 6. 

 Caina ciniferella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. xviii, fig. 12. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white. Fore wing greyish 



white irrorated with fus- 

 cous ; the inner area usually 

 with very slight ochreous 

 tinge; more or less devel- 

 oped medial black specks 

 on median nervure and 

 vein 1, two discocellular 

 Fig. 63. Tephris inanitella, <$. \. specks, and a marginal series 



of specks. Hind wing 



eemihyaline white, with pale brown marginal line. Underside of 



fore wing in male with a black streak below basal half of costa 



and another below vein 12. 



Hob. Fao, Persian Gulf; Punjab; Sind ; Bombay; Poona. 



Exp. 22 millim. 



SECT. II. (Tephris). Antennae of male ciliated ; hind wing with 

 vein 8 free. 



*4431. Tephris connexella, Raff. Mon. Phyc. p. 449, pi. xvii, fig. 19. 



$ . Head and thorax grey and black ; abdomen brown suffused 

 with black. Fore wing grey, irregularly irrorated with black ; the 

 basal area darkest ; an oblique black-edged pale antemedial line 

 with a black-irrorated whitish triangular patch beyond it, narrow 

 at costa, broad at inner margin ; a discocellular black lunule ; a 

 pale black-edged sinuous subrnarginal line, with an oblique line 

 from it to lower angle of cell ; a marginal line. Hind wing pale 

 .semihyaline white tinged with brown ; two fine marginal lines. 



Hob. Hyderabad, Sind. Exp. 21 millim. 



*4432. Tephris perlucidella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 450, pi. xvii, fig. 18. 



$ . Head and thorax grey irrorated with black ; abdomen 

 browner. Fore wing grey strongly irrorated with black, especially 

 beyond the antemedial line, which is whitish, indistinct, very 

 irregular, not reaching the costa, and broken by a waved black line 

 formed of raised scales ; a submarginal minutely waved pale line 

 slightly defined by fuscous ; a marginal series of specks ; cilia grey, 

 with three fuscous lines. Hind wing semihyaline iridescent white, 

 with two marginal brown lines. 



Hob. Hyderabad, Sind. Exp. 23 millim. 



