1902.] !75 



and not beyond the middle) as well as by Xylonomus, ? ? ; and above 

 all the pentagonal areolet and distinctly sulcate sterna — are typical 

 Cryptid characters. 



There can be no doubt that this genus, wherever placed, must be 

 kept in close proximity with Echthrus {Macrocri/ptus) , which Professor 

 Thomson has mingled with the Cryptin^e, wherein Nyxeophilus appears 

 most naturally under his "c c c :" Head tumidous, cheeks buccate, 

 vertex quadrate, clypeus bisinuate ; ? , front tibiae inflated and baeally 

 constricted. These two genera may, as far as I am aware, be very 

 simply separated thus : — 



Sulcus reaching base of mesosternuui ; ruetanotum with apical costa only... 



Nyxeophilus, Forst. 



Sulcus not reaching base of mesosternum ; ruetanoturn with basal costa only... 



Echthrus, Grav. 

 Ipswich : June, 1902. 



THREE NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM ADEN. 

 BY E. MEYRICK, P.. A., F.Z.S. 



The three following apparently uudescribed species were included 

 in a collection of Lepidoptera made at Aden by Mr. F. Muir, and 

 submitted to me for identification by Dr. Sharp. The types are 

 deposited in the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge. 



PLTTSIADJ2. 



AcONTIA GEPHYRIAS, )l. Sp. 



?. 32 mm. Head white, sides of forehead ferruginous. Palpi white, terminal 

 joint and apex of second suffused with ferruginous. Thorax white, partially suffused 

 with yellow. Abdomen white, base of segments orange. Fore-wings rather elongate, 

 triangular, termen rather obliquely rounded, slightly waved ; light yellow, becoming 

 deeper yellow in disc ; a thick dark ferruginous-fuscous longitudinal streak, mixed 

 with whitish, extending from base through middle of disc, posteriorly suffusedly 

 dilated and curved upwards to termen above middle, cut in this portion by two 

 yellow streaks on veins ; a small ferruginous subcostal spot before three-fourths ; a 

 black costal clot close before apex : cilia dark fuscous mixed with whitish, basal line 

 dark ferruginous. Hind-wings prismatic-white, towards apex tinged with brassy- 

 yellowish : cilia white, base yellowish. 



One specimen. 

 Grammodes schematica, n. up. 



? . 34 mm. Head ochreous-wliitish. Palpi ochreous- whitish, lower half of 

 second joint fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, sides mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish, base of segments more ochreous. Middle tibiae ap- 

 parently with only one spine. Fore-wings triangular, termen rather obliquely 



