508 



NOCTCID.-E. 



small, slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 with slight pale annuli defined by black, the former oblique ellip- 

 tical, the latter somewhat produced at lower extremity ; a diffused 

 curved dark medial line ; postmedial line blackish, double towards 

 costa, then indistinctly dentate and produced to black points on the 

 veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4. then 

 incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa : subterminal line 

 with dark patch before it on costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 represented by slight pale marks on dentate dark marks ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing- 

 brown with a greyish tinge; cilia whitish at tips; the underside 

 whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 curved minutely crenulate postmedial line, and terminal series of 

 lunules. 



Hub. Canaries, Teneriffe, type t $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 50 millim. 



Page 454. 



Genus PSEUDAMATHES, nov. 



Type, P. volloni. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching as far as frons, 

 which has a rounded prominence roughened in front and with triangular 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female minutely serrate 

 and ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tarsi 

 with three long curved claw-like spines on each side of the first two joints; 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form tbe areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent fn«n just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3296 b. Pseudamathes volloni. 



Amathes volloni, J). Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 342. 



5 . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; palpi above and 

 sides of frons slightly blackish ; abdomen white faintly tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing clothed with large rough scales, white suffused 



Fig. 240; — Pseudamathes volloni, $. \. 



with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line rufous, 

 curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rufous, 

 oblique, waved from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on 



