LEPIDOPTERA IIETEROCERA. 
1743 
wings. Legs very slender; hind tibiae with two extremely minute 
apical spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings almost straight in front, 
rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior border ; 
second inferior vein much further from the third than from the 
first. 
1. Naxa textilis. 
Mas. Candida ; antenna albidce ; genua nigra ; tibia apice 
nigra ; ala subnuda , macula discali guttisque marginalibus 
duplicatis nigris. 
Male . Pure white. Antennae whitish. Knees black. Tibiae 
with black tips. Wings very thinly feathered, with a blackish spot 
on the tip of the discal areolet, and with two rows of blackish dots 
along the exterior border. Fore wings with three blackish dots near 
the base. Length of the body 6 — 8 lines ; of the wings 16 22 
lines. 
a, b. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth’s collection, 
c, d. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby’s collection, 
e,/. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 
a. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth’s collection. 
h. — ? 
Genus ANTIPHELLA. 
Corpus sat validum. Caput et thorax densissime pilosa. Pro- 
boscis non conspicua. Palpi pilosi, brevissimi, Pedes validi; 
tibiae posticae calearibus duobus longiusculis apicalibus. Alae latae ; 
anticae apud costam vix convexae, apice rotundatae, margine exte- 
riore mediocriter obliquo. Mas .— Antennae mediocriter pectinatae. 
Alae amplae. Feem . — Antennae subpectinatae. 
Body moderately stout. Head and thorax thickly clothed with 
long hairs. Proboscis not visible. Palpi pilose, very short. An- 
tennae longer than the thorax. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with two 
rather long apical spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings hardly con- 
vex in front, rounded at the tips ; second inferior vein full four 
times further from the third than from the first ; third much further 
from the fourth than from the second. Male . — Antennae mode- 
rately pectinated. Wings ample. Female . — Antennae slightly 
pectinated. Spurs of the hind tibiae longer than those of the male. 
Wings smaller ; exterior border less oblique. 
This genus in the Synopsis, p. 778, comes between Pterolocera 
and Anthela , but is much more nearly allied to Lalia and to 
Leucoma. 
