160 PROF. E. B. POULTON ON 



examples (Abyssinia, White Nile, British East Africa) in the 

 British Museum, postmedian line of fore wing rather more curved 

 at costa. In the fore wing veins SO'"^ are coincident, in three 

 examples free, in three slightly connected with 0. 



TSPHRINA INCONSPICUA Warr. 



Tephrina inconsj)icua Warr. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 113 (1897). 



1908 : July 2,-1 $ ; Aug. 24,-1 $ . 



Rather weakly marked, especially the hind wing, which appears 

 rather more whitish than in the normal form (Natal to Nyassa- 

 land) ; but it is not in quite perfect condition. In the fore wing 

 the costal end of vein is obsolete, leaving it to appear that C 

 and SC^ are coincident throughout, anastomosing shortly with 

 SC". A worn female from Arabia (coll. Brit. Mus.) appears to 

 agree with the Somaliland example, though larger and with 

 normal venation ; thus the species seems to be widely distributed. 



TephrijSta butaria (Swinh.). 



Semioihisa butaria Swinh. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 510. 



1909 : May 8,-1 d . 



Known from Central and East Africa and as far north as 

 Abyssinia. 



Tephrina netta (Holland). 



Grammodes neita Holland, in Donaldson -Smith, Through 

 Unknown African Countries, p. 418, tig. 9 (1897). 



1908 : July 1,-1 6 ; July 31,-1 $ ; Sept. 21,-1 $ ; Sept. 26, 

 —1 2 • 1909 : May 21,-1 $ ; July 8,-1 $ ; Aug. 17,-1 c^ . 



As I understand Sir George Hampson has compared Holland's 

 type, I accept the determination of the species at the Bi'itish 

 Museum, which possesses a single example from Abyssinia. The 

 fore wing agrees well with Holland's figui-e, but the hind wing 

 has distal borders nearly as in Discalma suhcurvaria Mab., or 

 even more extended to the termen. Male antenna bipectinate. 



Tephrina cinerascens (Btlr.). 



Acidalia cinerascens Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. p. 418 

 (1875). 



Ematarga bilineata Warr. Nov. Zool. ii. p. 129 (1895). 

 Tephrina cinerascens Swinh. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 511. 



1909 : May 10, — 1 5 • Rather worn, weakly marked. 



Distributed from the Cape to British East Africa, and doubt- 

 fully distinct from pumicaria Led. (Syria) and fumosa Hmpsn. 

 (India). The large, strongly marked Abyssinian form figured 

 by Guenee (Phal. t. 17. fig. 7) is unknown to me. 



Tephrina disputaria (Guen.). 



Uubolia disputaria Guen. Spec. Gen. Lep. x. p. 489 (1858). 

 Tephrina disputaria Hmpsn. Faun. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 209 

 (1895). 



