TEPHRINA. 209 
Genus TEPHRINA. 4 a 
Tephrina, Dup. Cat. Lép. Eur. p. 246 (1844). 
Diastictis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 288 (? 1818), non descr. 
Type, 7. murinaria, Schiff., from Europe. 
Range. W. Indies; Palearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Aus- 
tralian regions. 
Palpi hairy and reaching beyond the frons; hind tibie not 
dilated. Wings with the outer margins evenly curved. Fore 
wing of male usually with fovea; vein 3 trom angle of cell; 7,8, 9 
stalked from upper angle; 10 absent; 11 usually free. Hind 
wing with vein 3 from angle of cell. 
In the typical section the male has the branches of the antenne 
very short. 
Szcr. IT. Male with the branches of antennez long, the 
extremity of shaft simple. 
3255. Tephrina disputaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 489. 
Cleora pulinda, WIk. Cat. xxi, p.333; Moore, Lep Ceyl. iii, pl. 204, 
figs. 7,8; C.g S. no. 3627. 
Macaria_ strenuataria, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1647. 
Macaria integrata, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1648; C. & S. no. 3612. 
Macaria strenuata, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1647 ; C. & S. no. 3629. 
Aspilates indolata, Wilk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1681 ; C. § S. no. 3621. 
Tephrina lithina, Buti. P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 171. 
Tephrina zebrina, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, pl: C. GS. no, 3630! 
Tephrina eranitalis, Butl. P. Z.S8. 1883, p aie 
Tephrina sublimbata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, 502. 
Macaria boaria, Swink. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 861, pl o6, fie12; CLS. 
no. 3606. 
Macaria infrictaria, Swink. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 862; C.§ S. no. 3623. 
Tephrina ossea, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 353, pl. 9, fig. 9 ; 
C. § S. no. 3625. 
$. Whitish, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; head 
orange. Tore pie with nearly erect antemedial dark line ; el 
medial band incurved below cell 
4 and often joined to the ante- 
LE medial line by blotches on inner 
area; a postmedial line incurved 
below vein 4 and with a dark spot 
5 beyond it at middle; the mar- 
ginal area suffused with purplish 
3. grey. Hind wing with sinuous 
medial line; straight postmedial 
line, the area beyond it suffused with purplish fuscous. Under- 
ae slightly suffused with fulvous; the bands broader, especially 
the postmedial. 
Typical disputaria from Egypt is a brown form, the bands of the 
fore wing very broad, black, and prominent on inner area; 
‘Karachi specimens are almost as dark, but the ground-colour of 
the Indian form is usually paler and more ochreous. 
VOL, ILI, P 
Fig. 115.— Tephrina disputaria, 3. 
