642 NOCTUIDiE. 



Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. 



Type, M. vutzdorffi.. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to Tertex of bead, the 2nd joiut 

 moderately scaled, the 3id sliort; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£E 

 of male ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and witliout 

 crests; tibiae sliglitly fringed wilh hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled. Fore wing witli lobe and scale-tooth on middle of inner margin, then 

 excised, the termen evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 () 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 ; 

 C, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



"^7092. Microxestis vutzdorffi. 



EuxesHs wutzdorffi, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 223, pi. vii. fig. 5 (1907). 



cT . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous sufTused 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. 2G0. — Microxestis vuizdwffi, S • \- 



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. 



ilah. Palestine, Jordan, type f in Coll. Gotschmann. Ecc^. 

 16 millim. 



Genus AECYOPHORA. 



Type. 



Arcyophora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 378 (IBM) lovgivalvis. 



Euxesiis, Led. Hor, See. Ent. Eoss. vi. p. 88 (18G9) denttda. 



Pseudocalpe, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 566 (1894) deniida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennsB of male typically with fasciculate cilia; thorax clotlied almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests; tibije slightly fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with small dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute, tlie termen obliquely curved, the inner margin 

 with lobe 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. 



