286 



noctuid.t;. 



rufous ; the underside wliite, the costal area faintly tinged with 



rufous. 



1 1(d). Palestine, Ain-Dschidi in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. -10 

 niillini. 



Genus GNAMPTONYX. 



Typo. 



Gnamptonyx, Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) «■//<>. 



Proboscis fully rleyeloped ; palpi with the 2ncl joint upturned, reaching to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the ^vd moderate, porrect and thickly 

 scaled; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna; of male with fasciculate 

 cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia; 

 slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiae short with long curved claw on inner 

 side and short claw on outer, the mid tibia; of male dilated with a groove 

 containing a fringe of scales, the liind tibire not spined ; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeii 

 evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 1) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle ; ."i fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base onlj-. 



A. Wings with the lines distinct vUis. 



ii. Wings with the lines almost obsolete ohsokta. 



8092. Gnamptonyx vilis. 

 Homoptem vilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 889 (1805); Hmpsii. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 48f>. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; antennae ringed Avith 

 black ; palpi white with some black towards extremitv of 2nd and 

 on 3rd joints ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with oehreous. 

 Fore wing white mixed with oehreous brown and black-brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by black stria- from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line black, waved, excurved in submedian interspace, a 



Fig. 70. — Gvampiuny.r vilifi, c?. |. 



white band beyond it ; ivniform indistinctly defined by blacki.sh 

 and with some blackish above it on costa ; a white patch bevond 

 the cell from costa to vein 2, defined by the black postmedial line 

 which is slightly excurved below costa and at middle and incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved and slightly sinuous below vein 4; the 

 postmedial area darker with two white points on costa ; subterminal 

 line oehreous white, rather diffiised, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, incurved below the costa and at discal and submedian folds ; 



