LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCERA. 1659 



TEPHRINA ? ALBIPUNCTATA. 



Mas. Pallide testacea ; palpi graciles, ascendentes ; antennae setu- 

 losce ; tibice posticce incrassatce ; alee latiusculce, lineis tribus 

 obscurioribus valde indistinctis, puncto discali nigro, linea 

 submarginali e punctis nigris albo notatis ; anticce margine 

 exteriore vix flexo ; posticce margine exteriore subfiexo. 



Male. Pale testaceous, paler beneath. Palpi slender, ascend- 

 ing, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint acute, very minute. 

 Antennae very minutely setulose. Abdomen hardly extending beyond 

 the hind wings; apical tuft small. Hind tibiae incrassated, with 

 four long spurs. Wings rather broad, with three very indistinct 

 darker lines ; discal point black ; a submarginal row of black white- 

 marked points. Fore wings acute ; exterior border hardly bent, very 

 slightly oblique. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly bent. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Page 964. 



Tephrina? medardaria. 



Mas. Cinerascente-carnea ; antennce pectinatce ; alee conspersce, 

 lineis duabus obscurioribus, la subrecta,2a denticu lata, punctis 

 marginalibus nigris ; anticce puncto discali nigro ; posticce 

 puncto discali albo, 



Petelia medardaria, Herr.-Sch. Exot. Schm. pi. 94, f. 534. 



Hindostan. 



Tephrina decursaria. 



Faem. Albida; caput et thorax anticus ex parte cinereo-fusca ; 

 palpi breves, lati, pilosi ; alee breviusculce, latiusculce, fusco 

 subconspersce, lineis quatuor nigricantibus subdentatis subun- 

 dulatis,fusciis exteriore et submarginali fuscescentibus inter- 

 rupts, puncto discali lineaque marginali nigricantibus ; anticce 

 apice rotundatce, fascia interiore fuscescente, fimbria fusco 

 notata. 



Female. Whitish. Head and fore part of the thorax varied 

 with cinereous-brown. Palpi short, broad, pilose, extending beyond 

 the head; third joint extremely minute. Win^s slightly brown- 

 speckled, rather short and broad, with four blackish nearly upright 



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