66 CATALOGUE OF 



49. Nephopteryx ? Acisalis. 



Mas. Fusca, N. Etolusali affinis ; palpi porrecti ; alee anticce 

 lineis nigris punctularibus cinereo marginatis, linea marginali 

 interrupta, reniformi cinerea strigam nigram includente. 

 Male. Brown, brownish cinereous beneath, in structure like 

 N. Etolusalis and N. Cyllusalis, excepting the exterior border of 

 the fore wings, which is hardly oblique in the fore part. Palpi por- 

 rect. Fore wings with black irregular cinereous-bordered lines, 

 which are partly composed of black points ; marginal line inter- 

 rupted ; reniform mark cinereous, including a black streak. Hind 

 wings as dark as the fore wings. Length of the body 4J lines ; of 

 the wings 9 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From M. Neitner's collection. 



50. Nephopteryx? Argiadesalis. 



Mas. Fusca, N. Acisali affinis ; aim anticce cano tincta, lineis 

 punctularibus plagaque postica nigris. 



Male : Brown, brownish cinereous beneath, in structure like 

 N. Acisalis. Fore wings tinged with hoary, more especially along 

 the black lines, which are much like those of N. Acisalis ; a black 

 patch by the interior border at a little before the middle. Hind 

 wings brown. This may be a variety of N. Acisalis, but the latter 

 species has no trace of the patch. Length of the body 4 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr, Layard's collection. 



51. Nephopteryx? ^Eoltjsalis. 



Fcem. Cana; caput et thorax anticus nigro-fusca ; palpi por- 

 recti, articulo So conico ; abdomen fuscescente-cinereum ; alee 

 antica> apice rotundata, lineis fuscis denticulatis subobsoletis, 

 spatio extenore fusco, linea submarginali cana denticulata, 

 lunuhs margmalibus obscure fuscis cano marginatis, marqine 

 extenore perobliquo. 



y,r^ Fem v e ; • Hoary ' Head and fore P art of the thorax blackish 

 brown Falpi porrect ; third joint conical, not more than one-third 

 ol the length of the second. Abdomen, hind wings and under side 

 biownish-cinereous. Fore wings with indistinct traces of denticu- 



Wv J "? iTJ eXteri ° r part m °stly brown; submarginal line 

 hoary, denticulated j marginal lunules dark brown, hoary-bordered ; 



