414 NOCTCIDJ,. 



*4094. Acosmetia arida. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 2.) 

 Acosvietia arida, de Joan. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1909, ined. 



5 . Head white tinged with ochreous ; antennpe brownish ; 

 thorax ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi ringed 

 with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore Aving ochreous irrorated 

 with red-brown ; subbasal line rather diffused, black, slightly bent 

 outwards at median nervure and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 rather diffused, black, excurved, slightlj^ angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 medial area irrorated with some black scales, especially in cell, and 

 with traces of a medial line ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; subterminal line very indistinct, ochreous, excurved 

 below vein 7, then oblique ; cilia white. Hind wing pure white. 

 Hab. Egypt, Mokattam in Coll. de Joannis. Ex-p. 20 millim. 



Genus PETILAMPA. 



Type. 



Petilampa, Anviv. Nord. Fjar. p. 156 (1890) minima. 



Platyperigea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 60 (1894) camina. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the 3rd modei-ate ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough hair 

 and hair-like scales and without crests ; build slender ; tibiffi fringed with 

 rather long hair ; abdomen without crests ; wings of male ample, of female 

 aborted and considerably reduced. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ter- 

 men evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle ot'cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to a series of 



black points on the veins minima. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not produced to a series 



of black points on the veins. 

 a. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4. 

 a}. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly angled out- 

 wards in submedian fold palusiris. 



lA. Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled outwards 



in submedian fold anotha. 



h. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from below costa 



to inner margin camina . 



4005. Petilampa minima. 



Noctua minima, Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 216 (1809). 



Phytometra lutescens, Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 260 (1809), 



Phytometra arcuosa, Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 260 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. iii. p. 123 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 199. 

 Ca,radrina dwponchellii, Boisd, Ind. Meth. p. 82 (1829) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 



Suppl. iii. p. 307, pi. 28. f. 4. 

 Noctua aircB, Frr. Ngue Beitr. ii. p. 109, pi. 162. ff. 1-3 (1836) ; Herr.- 



SchafT. Eur. Schmett,, Noct. ff. 178-9. 



