LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 459 



Male. Eyes prominent. Palpi straight, subrostriform, with 

 very distinct joints; third joint rhomboidal, bare. Antennae with 

 tufted tubercles. Abdomen cylindric-conical. Legs robust ; hind 

 tibiae much incrassated, with thick downy hairs. Wings oblong, 

 smooth, slightly dentate, with few markings. Fore wings acute, 

 subfalcate ; costa very convex. Hind wings narrow, with a promi- 

 nent angular tooth. 



1. Xerodes Ypsaria. 



Mas. Rufescente-cinerea ; alee nigro conspersce, linea media lata 

 recta nigricante, linea exteriore punctulari ; anticce linea ar~ 

 cuata, puncto discali maculaque exteriore nigricantibus . 



Xerodes Ypsaria, Guen. Pkal. i. 291, 465. 



Borneo. 



Genus 25. GNOPHOS. 



Corpus gracile. Frons rotundata, squamosa, plus minusve tu- 

 mida. Proboscis bene determinata. Palpi breves, recti, squamosi, 

 disjuncti, frontem vix superantes, articulis indistinctis. Pedes gla- 

 bri, longiusculi ; tibiae posticae plus minusve incrassatae. Alae latse, 

 sericeae, nitentes, dentatae, concolores, lituris non diversis. Mas. — 

 Antennae pectinatae aut villosae. Abdomen attenuatum, carinatum, 

 apice quadratum. Fcem. — Abdomen apice conicum. Oviductus 

 exsertus. 



Scotopteryx, Catascia, Ascotis, Dyscia et Hyposcotis, Hubn. Verz. 



Schm. 313, 314. 

 Gnophos, Treit. Schm.i. 160; Dup.\ Boisd.; Herr.-Sch.; Leder.; 



Guen. Phal. i. 292. 

 Charissa, Curt. ; Stepk. 



Body slender. Front rounded, squamous, more or less tumid. 

 Proboscis very distinct. Palpi short, straight, separate, squamous, 

 hardly extending beyond the front ; joints indistinct. Antennae of 

 the male pectinated or villose and stout. Abdomen of the male at- 

 tenuated, keeled, terminated by a quadrate tuft of hairs ; that of the 

 female ending in a conical point, with a prominent oviduct. Legs 

 smooth, rather long; hind tibiae more or less incrassated. Wings 

 broad, silky, shining, alike in colour and with like markings, more 

 or less dentate. Hind wings more dentate than the fore wings. 



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