120 NOCTUID^. 



Head and thorax grej^ tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 

 a few black scales; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 

 brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorated with black ; snbbasal line represented by two 

 slight black marks on costa ; antemedial line double, the inner line 

 red-brown, indistinct, with black point at costa, the outer black, 

 slightly angled inwards below costa and on vein 1 and outwards in 

 submedian fold; orbicular and reniform small, hardly traceable and 

 very slightly defined by black, the former round, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle and with black point above it on costa; post 

 medial line double, the inner line black, the outer hardly traceable,, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; 

 a subterminal series of slight black spots, incurved at discal fold ; a 

 fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with fine black line near 

 tips. Hind wing with the basal half brownish ochreous, the 

 terminal half fuscous ; cilia ochreous, mixed with black at tips ; the 

 underside brownish white irrorated with black, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmcdial line. 



Ab. 1. caspica. Greyer. 



Ab. 2. felix. Darker ; fore wing dark leaden grey. 



Hah. Sicily ; Algeeia, 1 c? , 1 $ , Hammam-es-Salahin ( Wal- 

 singham), 2 $ , Biskra (Eaton), 1 c? ; Sybia ; Palestine, Jerusalem, 

 1 d , 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 c? , 1 $ . Kvjp. 26-30 

 millim. 



Genus AMMETOPA, nov. 



Type, A. codefi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and shovel-shaped 

 process from lower edge ; eyes large, rounded ; antenuEe of male laminate ; head 

 and thorax clothed with hair mixed with scales and without crests ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 rather strong from above lower angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



2222. Ammetopa codeti. 



Metopoceras codeti, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 88, pi. 11. f. 10 (1881) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 17(5. 



S . Head and thorax white suffused with bright ferruginous ; 

 tarsi brown with pale rings; abdomen ochreous Avhite doraally 

 suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft yellowish. Fore wing whitish 

 almost wholly suffused with bright ferruginous ; subbasal line 

 represented by two slight rufous marks on costa ; antemedial line 

 faint, indistinctly double, minutely waved ; orbicular a minute 

 whitish annulus ; reniform almost obsolete ; a very indistinct medial 

 line bent inwards to costa and oblique below the cell; postmedial 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 



