642 NOCTUIDE. 
Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. 
Type, M. vutzedorfi. ap 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head, the 2nd ‘joint 
moderately scaled, the 31d short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennee 
of male ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and without 
crests; tibie slightly fringed with hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly 
scaled. Fore wing with lobe and scale-tooth or middle of inner margin, then 
excised, the termen evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 
6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell ; 
6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
*7092. Microxestis vutzdorfii. 
Eucestis wutzdorfi, Ping. Iris, xix. p. 223, pl. vii. fig. 5 (1907). 
¢. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus, legs, 
and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 
rufous; the antemedial line represented by a faint oblique pale 
shade ; a faint rufous medial shade, oblique below the cell ; a minute 
black discoidal point ; postmedial line very indistinct, fine, rufous, 
bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold and 
Fig. 260.—Microwestis vutzdorffi, G. }- 
incurved below vein 4, some small whitish spots beyond it on costa ; 
a small whitish subapical spot with black point on its outer edge. 
Hind wing white, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous; 
cilia white; the underside white with the costal area faintly 
tinged with rufous. 
Hab. Pavestrxe, Jordan, type tT in Coll. Gétschmann. Lap. 
16 millim. 
Genus ARCYOPHORA. 
: Type. 
Arcyophora, Guen. Noct. ji. p. 878 (1852)..........ceceseesseseennee longivalvis, 
Eucestis, Led. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. vi. p. 88 (1869) ............ dentula. 
Pseudocalpe, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 566 (1894) ............... dentula. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, 
round; antennx of male typically with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests; tibix slightly fringed with hair; 
abdomen with small dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 
somewhat produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin 
with Jobe and scale-tooth at middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 
from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to beyond middle. “Sie 
