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4357. Nephopteryx divisella, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv, p. 126, pi. 60, 



fig. ix ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 295. 

 Pempelia euphorbiella, Zell. Isis, 1846, p. 757. 

 Nephopteryx albiricella, Herr.-Schciffer, Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 73. 



Head red ; palpi banded with white ; thorax and abdomen pale 

 brown, the former tinged with purple. Eore wing pale brown ; 

 the costal half pure white, tapering to apex, irrorated with a few 

 purplish scales and with a fuscous postmedial streak on the costa ; 

 an indistinct submarginal line. Hind wing iridescent hyaline ; 

 the margin pale brown. 



Larva brown, with a chocolate dorsal band ; paired fine black 

 subdorsal lines and whitish slightly waved stigmatic line ; the 

 stigmata yellow, with white points and ringed with black ; sligbt 

 setiferous yellow warts ; head black, the mouth yellow. Feeds in 

 a colony on Euphorbia. 



Hab. Europe ; Gambia ; Natal ; Aden ; Karachi ; Ceylon. Exp. 

 22-24 millim. 



b. (Ceutholopha). Hind icing of male with a streak of large black 

 scales at base of vein 1 b. 



4358. Nephopteryx isidis, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 375; Stainton, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, pi. 24, fig. 6 ; Mag. Mon. Phyc. p. 252. 



<5 . Grey-brown. Fore wing irrorated with rufous and white, 

 or irrorated with black in median interspace and suffused with 

 rufous on outer area ; a pale medial line with a reddish band on 

 its inner edge and angled inwards on vein 1, the band expanding 

 on inner area and with a black spot below the cell ; a nearly straight 

 pale submarginal line defined by blackish on inner side and rufous 

 on outer ; a marginal series of black specks and an apical spot. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, with prominent streak of black 

 scales on inner area ; the margin brownish. Underside of fore 

 wing with subbasal patch of black scales below the cell. 



Hab. Egypt ; Karachi. Exp. 20 millim. 



B. Antennce of male with the base of shaft strongly sinuous but 

 without tuft. 



4359. Nephopteryx bicolorella, Leech, Entom. 1889, p. 108, pi. v. 



fig. 5 ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 275, pi. xliii. fig. 14. 



Head and thorax pale chestnut; the patagia pink; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft pinkish. Eore wing 

 long and narrow, the apex rectangular : the basal half pale 

 chestnut ; red fasciae on median nervure and vein 1 with a fold 

 between them and an antemedial tuft of raised scales on vein 1 ; 

 a pale pink antemedial line very oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell ; medial tufts of raised red scales on the discocellulars, 

 median nervure, and vein 1 ; the outer area dark olive-fuscous ; 

 a submarginal line bent outwards and minutely dentate between 

 veins 5 and 2, and with a series of pink specks on it from vein 5 to 



