180 
NOCTTTIDiE. 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 
cell nearly half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 
5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus TEPHRIALIA, nov. 
Type, T. trigonospila, Hmpsn. ( Baniana ), P. Z. S. 1910,. 
p. 435, pi. xxxvii. f. 19. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head, moderately fringed with 
hair in front and fringed with hair behind at extremity, 
the 3rd long and fringed with hair behind ; frons smooth, 
with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 
male bipectinate with long branches, the apical part ciliated ; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax 
with double crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the 
mid tibiae dilated with a groove containing a tuft of hair ; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the 
apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- 
late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 
angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length 
of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from well 
above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 
the cell near base only. 
Tephrialia vau-sema, n. sp. 
Head and thorax creamy white, the vertex of head with 
red-brown streak, the thorax with red-brown mixed ; 
antennae tinged with brown, the basal joint blackish on inner 
side ; palpi and legs suffused with red- brown, the tarsi brown 
slightly ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally irrorated 
with brown. Fore wing creamy white, irrorated and in parts 
suffused with red-brown ; small subbasal and antemedial 
brown spots on costa ; a lunulate deep chocolate-brown 
antemedial patch from cell to above inner margin, its inner 
extremity produced to a slight point towards base and its 
outer edge connected with inner margin by a black striga ; 
orbicular a black annulus defined by white ; reniform defined 
by small black spots edged with white, the spot on its lower 
edge rather lunulate ; postmedial line black defined on outer 
side by white and with red-brown shades before and beyond 
it, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, a black point 
beyond it in submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish 
defined on inner side by the red-brown shade and on outer 
slightly by red-brown to vein 4, a black spot before it above 
