Moths . h in end of cell, and another beyond the cell extending to thecosta and apex; a black discocellular speck and blackish patchbeyond lower angle of cell; a submarginal black line excurvedbetween veins 6 and 2; a marginal black hue. Hind wing palefuscous brown; the cilia grey, with a fuscous line through Nagas ; Borneo. Exp. 24 millim. Genus TEPHRIS. Tepfiris, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 446 (1893).Caina, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 463. Type, T. cyriella, Ersch., from Central Asia. Mange. Transcaucasus ; Persia ; Central Asia; W. India ;Burma. Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hollowed out
Moths . h in end of cell, and another beyond the cell extending to thecosta and apex; a black discocellular speck and blackish patchbeyond lower angle of cell; a submarginal black line excurvedbetween veins 6 and 2; a marginal black hue. Hind wing palefuscous brown; the cilia grey, with a fuscous line through Nagas ; Borneo. Exp. 24 millim. Genus TEPHRIS. Tepfiris, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 446 (1893).Caina, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 463. Type, T. cyriella, Ersch., from Central Asia. Mange. Transcaucasus ; Persia ; Central Asia; W. India ;Burma. Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hollowed out in male tocontain the brush-like maxillary palpi, the 3rd joint short and por-rect; frons with a conical tuft; antenna? of male with a slightsinus at base containing a large ridge of scales ; tibiae thicklyscaled. Pore wing long and narrow; vein 3 from near angle ofcell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 10 free. Hindwing with the cell short; vein 2 from near angle; 3, 4, 5 stalked ;6, 7 TEPHEIS. 107 Sect. I. (Caina). Antennae of male thickened and laminate;hind wing with vein 7 anastomosing with 8. 4430. Tephris inanitella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 25; id. Mon. Phyc. p. 464,pi. xlvii, fig. 7; C. $ S. no. micrella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. vi, fig. deletella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. xxvi, fig. ciniferella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 467, pi. xviii, fig. 12. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white. Fore wing greyish white irrorated with fus-cons ; the inner area usuallywith very slight ochreoustinge; more or less devel-oped medial black speckson median nervure andvein 1, two discocellularFig. 63.— Tephris inanitella, <$. \. specks, and a marginal series of specks. Hind wing semihyaline white, with pale brown marginal line. Underside of fore wing in male with a black streak below basal half of costa and another below vein 12. Hah. Fao, Persian Gulf; Punjab; Sind; Bombay; Poona. Exp. 22 millim. Sect. II. (Tephris). Antennae of male cilia
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