66 boarmiid^e. 



GNOPHOS, Treit. 



Gnophos obtectaria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 8.) 

 Gnophos obtectaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1507 (1800). 



Fuliginous brown : wings with a faint pink shot; numerous transverse striations a little 

 paler than the ground-eolour ; a slender dentate-sinuate arched black line across the disk, 

 crossed by au indistinct undulated grey belt, the sinuations of which enclose a submarginal 

 series of white points: primaries crossed at basal third by a second slender black line. Wings 

 below dull white, sparsely brown-speckled, with brownish borders and a broad chocolate- 

 brown discal belt ; a blackish discocellular dash and an arched series of blackish points at 

 a short distance beyond the cell: body below pale sandy brownish. Expanse of wings 

 5(i millim. 



Darjiliug [Atkinson §• Lidderdale) ; Nepal (Wright). 



Gnophos sereus. (Plate CXVI. fig. 9.) 

 Gnophos aereus, Butler, Ann. Sf May. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 128. n. 34 (1880). 



Bronzy green, sprinkled here and there with bluish while and mottled with black : wings 

 with brown fringes, slightly speckled at the base with bluish white, and traversed by a dark 

 brown line; a marginal undulated blackish line; a submarginal scries of blackish luuules, 

 speckled internally with bluish-white scales; the two usual irregularly sinuated blackish lines 

 indicating the central belt, the inner one obsolete on the secondaries; a blackish spot ou the 

 discocellulars : primaries with a blackish subbasal liue : abdomen browuish. Wings below 

 brownish grey, sericeous, with darker discocellular dots, undulated discal line, and diffused 

 discal belt; apex of each of the wings whitish; a marginal scries of conical blackish spots, 

 base of fringe whitish: body below pale smoky brown. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 



Darjiliug (Lidderdale). 



Allied to G. muscosaria. 



Gnophos muscosaria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 10.) 



Gnophos muscosaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Il<t. Suppl. \. p. L596 ( L866). 



Bronze-green, a very irregular band across the disk of the wings, and separating the 

 central belt from the external border, paler and brighter in colour, pale yellowish, spotted 

 witli pearl-white internally and reddish olivaceous externally ; a second pale baud near the 



