LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 1597 



Gnophos OBTECTARIA. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; ala albido cervinoque conspersa, linea 

 obliqua angulosa postmedia lunulisque marginalibus nigri- 

 cantibus ; anticce fascia indeterminata albida. 



Male. Cinereous-brown, whitish beneath. Antennae ferruginous, 

 moderately pectinated. Wings more or less speckled with whitish 

 and with fawn-colour, the former hue occasionally forming an 

 irregular band in the fore wings; a zigzag oblique blackish line, 

 beyond the middle; marginal lunules blackish; exterior border 

 slightly festooned; under side wilh a brown discal mark, with 

 exterior brown dots and with a broad brown band, which is marginal 

 in the fore wings, submarginal and irregular in the hind wings. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



Darjeeling. In Mr. Atkinson's collection. 



Gnophos com bust aria. 



Mas. Ferrugineo-fusca ; palpi porrecti, pilosi, caput vix super- 

 antes; antenna sat late pectinata, apices versus simplices ; 

 thorax nigricante bifasciatus ; abdomen ochraceo-cinereum, 

 segmentis nigro marginatis, lateribus subfasciculatis ; ala 

 nigricante strigata, linea marginali nigra ; antica lineis 

 duabus nigris subundulatis, 2a denticulata, slriga intermedia 

 nigra, playis duabus exterioribus ochraceis fusco strigatis, 

 linea submarginali cinerea angulosa, lituris tribus submargin- 

 alibus albidis ; postica fiavescente- albida, litura lineisque 

 duabus exterioribus abbreviatis fuscis. 



Male. Ferruginous-brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi porrect, 

 pilose, hardly extending beyond the head; third joint conical, very 

 minute. Antennae rather broadly pectinated to somewhat beyond 

 two-thirds of the length. Thorax with two blackish bands. Abdo- 

 men ochraceous-cinereous, slightly tufted along each side ; hind 

 borders of the segments black. Wings minutely and transversely 

 blackish-streaked ; marginal festoon black. Fore wings acute, with 

 two black slightly undulating lines; first Hue antemedial ; second 

 postmedial, denticulated ; two ochraceous brown-streaked patches, 

 one on the interior angle, the other on the costa beyond the middle ; 

 a short transverse black streak between the lines ; a zigzag cinereous 

 submarginal line, which is accompanied by three transverse whitish 

 marks; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind 

 wings yellowish whitish, with a transverse brown mark in the disk 



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