286 



N0CTUID2E, 



rvifous ; the vinderside white, the costal area faintly tinged with 

 rufous. 



Hah. Palestine, Ain-Dschidi in Coll. Piingeler. Eocp. 40 

 millim. 



Genus GNAMPTONYX. 



Gnamptonyx, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) 



Type. 



vilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with Ihe 2nd joint upturned, reaching to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porreet and thickly 

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

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

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

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

 containing a fringe of scales, the hind tibife not spined ; abdomen smoothly 

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

 evenly curved, 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Wings with the lines distinct vilis. 



13. Wings with the lines almost obsolete ohsoleta. 



8092. Gnamptonyx vilis. 



Homopfem vilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 889 (18G5); Ilmpsti. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; antennae ringed with 

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

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

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

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

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



"Fig. 70. — Gnamptunyx vilis, S- t- 



white band beyond it ; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish 

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

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

 which is slightly exciu-ved 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 ochreous white, rather diffused, excurved below vein 7 and at 

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



