120 NOCTUID.K. 



Head nnd thorax grey tinged with rod-brown and irroratcd with 

 a few ))hick Hcales; tarsi hlack ringed with white; abdomen 

 brownish grey irrorated with blael<. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by two 

 slight black marks on costa ; aiitemedial line double, the inner lino 

 red-brown, indistinct, with black point at eosta, the outer black, 

 slightly angled inwards below co8ta and on vein 1 and outwards in 

 Bulimedinn fold; orbicular and reniform small, hardly traceable and 

 very slightly detined l)y black, the former round, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle and with black point above it on costa; post 

 medial line double, the inner line black, the outer hardly traceable, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa. excun-ed to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a subtermiual series of slight black spots, incurved at discal fold ; a 

 fine waved black terminal line; cilia with tine black line near 

 tips. Hind wing with the basal half brownish ochreous, the 

 terminal half fuscous ; cilia ochreous. mixed with black at tips : tho 

 underside brownish white irrorated with black, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. c((spica. Greyer. 



Ab, 2. felir. Darker ; fore wing dark leaden grey. 



Nab. Sicily : Algeria, 1 d" , 1 $ , Hammara-es-^=alahin ( Wal- 

 9iurjham),2 ^ , Biskra. {Ealon), I cS ; Svni.v ; Palestine, Jerusalem, 

 1 j , I $ ; "NV. TrRKESTAX, Turkomania, 1 J , 1 2 • E-^T- 2G--3(> 

 millim. 



Genus AMMETOPA, nov. 



Type, A. coded. 



Proboscis fully dcTelnped ; palpi obliqueh- upturned, fringed with bair in 

 front ; Irons with corneous prominence with raised edges and shovel-shaped 

 proce.ss from lower edge ; eye;- largo, munded •. antennae of male laminate ; liead 

 and thorax clothed with hair mixed with scales and without crests; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the termen obliquely curved : reins 

 3 and .""i from near angle of cell ; from upper angle: '.• from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle 

 of cell; .') rather strong from above lower angle ; 6, 7 (rom upjjer angle ; anasto- 

 mosing with llie cell near base only. 



2222. Ammetopa codeti. 



Mctf,]H>ccras corlcti, Oberth. fit. Ent. vi. p. 88, pi. U. f. 10 (ISSl); Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 17<'». 



S . Head and thorax white suffu.sod with bright ferruginous ; 

 tarsi brown with pale rings; abdomen ochreous white dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft yellowish. Fore wing whitish 

 almost wholly suffused with bright ferruginous ; subl)asal line 

 represented by two slight rufous marks on costa; antemedial lino 

 faint, indistinctly double, minutely waved ; orbicular a minute 

 whiti.sh annulus ; reniform almost obsolete ; a very indistinct medial 

 lino bent inwards to costa and obliipie below tho coll; postmedial 

 lino indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate. 



