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Euzophera subterebrella, Snell., TijJ. V. Ent., xxiii, p. 250 (1880) ; 

 id., xxvii, p. 54, pi. v., f. 12. 

 „ nivricostdla, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind., iv., p. 74 (1896). 



4354a. Nbphopteryx nephbloalis, n. sp. 



2 . Head, throax and abdomen grey suffused with brown ; pectus and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white. 

 Forewing grey suffused with brown ; some diffused whitish from base of 

 costa followed by a dark shade ; an oblique whitish diffused antemedial 

 bai'd with the slight double brown antemedial line on its outer edge 

 followed by a blackish shade from costa to median nervure ; two obliquely 

 placed blackish discoidal spots ; subterminal line whitish defined on each 

 side by dark lines and with slight oblique dark shade from its inner side 

 at costa, slightly excurved at middle and very minutely waved ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points. Hind wing pale suffused with brown ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line near base. 



Habitat, — Ceylon, Trincomali (Green). Kvp. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



4359tZ. Nephopteryx rhodobasalis, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 36.) 



Antennae of male with large tuft of scales from basal joint and sinus 

 at base of shaft but without tuft of scales in it ; the tibiae broadly 

 scaled ; large black anal and genital tufts with some silvery scales in 

 them. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with blackish ; abdomen fuscous, ochreous at base. Forewing with the 

 basal area whitish tinged with pink and rufous and with dark patches on 

 costa at base and before middle ; antemedial line double, oblique, formed 

 of raised blackish and silvery scales ; the rest of wing fuscous mixed 

 with greyish ; two obscure discoidal spots with some whitish before and 

 beyond the lower ; subterminal line indistinct, double filled in with whitish, 

 the inner line minutely dentate, slightly incurved below costa ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base follo^^■ed by a 

 dark line. Hindwing semihyaline whitish, the veins and a terminal line 

 brown ; cilia with a dark line near base. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Madulsima (Vaughan). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B. M. 



4359e. Nephopteryx acrobasblla, n. sp. 



Maxillary palpi of male dilated with scales and flattened against the 

 frons ; antennse with sinus at base containing a tuft of scales ; thorax 

 with tufts of l(>ng hair from below base of hindw ng. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with some red and pale olive brown, the 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen brownish ochreous with grey 

 and fuscous bands, Forewing grey irrorated with purplish red ; some 

 olive ochreous on basal inner area ; the first line medial, blackish, obliijue, 

 straight, with a conical olive ochreous band before it, not quite reaching- 

 costa, and defined on inner side by band of raised blackish, red and silvery 

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