202 MR. A. Q. BUXLEE ON THE MOTHS 



1. Nepheloleuca POLITIA. — Phalsena politia, Cramer, Pap. 

 Exot. ii. p. 65, pi. 140, E (1779). — Phalaena-G-eonietra politata, 

 Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 253. — Eulepidotis politaria, Hilbner, 

 Verz. hek. Schnett. p. 291 (1816). — Urapteryx politia. Leach, 

 Zool. Misc. i. p. 80, pi. 35. f . 1 (1814-17). — Urapteryx complicata, 

 Guenee, Plial. i. p. 30, pi. 6. fig. 9 (1857).— St. Domiugo, 

 Jamaica; Sarayacu and Oaxaca, Mexico. B.M. 



Gruenee's Urapteryx compllcata is represented by full-sized 

 examples of the species ; the smaller specimens are frequently 

 less fully marked witli reddish. The U. illiturata of Gueuee is 

 apparently distinct ; the costal spot of primaries is said to bo 

 bilobed. It is possible, however, that this may be only an 

 exaggeration of a character frequently found in Nepheloleuca 

 politia, this spot being in many specimens deeply indented 

 externally. 



Thinoptertx, gen. nov. (Plate IX. figs. 13, 14.) 



Primaries triangular, with acute prominent apex ; second 

 subcostal with its three branches emitted before the end of the 

 cell ; lower radial emitted from the centre of the discocellulars ; 

 discocellulars forming a concave transverse line; second aid 

 third median branches well separated at their origins : second- 

 aries with two distinct angles — the first at the extremity of the 

 first subcostal brauch, the second, which forms a short tail, at 

 the extremity of the third median branch as usual ; subcostal 

 and second and third medians separate at their origins ; the dis- 

 cocellular oblique and slightly concave : antennae ciliated, not 

 pectinated. Type T. crocopterata. 



1. Thikopteryx CROCOPTERATA. — Urapteryx crocopterata, 

 Kollar in HugeVs Kaschmir, p. 483 (1848).— Silhet, Nepal, 

 Andamans, Java. B.M. 



2. Thinopteryx PRJiiTOEARiA. — 5 Urapteryx pra^toraria, 

 Felder, Beise der Nov., Lep. iv. pi. exxii. fig. 13 (1875). — Silhet. 

 S , B.M. 



3. Thinoptertx striolata, sp. n. — Near to T. crocopterata, 

 but differing constantly in the considerably darker costal border 

 of primaries, the more distinctly striated upper surface, which 

 gives it a mottled appearance, the more widely separated and 

 more parallel bands across the primaries, the outer band di- 

 stinctly wider, and the more densely grey-mottled character of 



