480 NOCTUID^. 



with a black fascia from the base below the cell to outer margin at 

 vein 3 ; the marginal specks more prominent. Hind wing with 

 the margin and veins near it tinged with fuscous instead of a 

 marginal band. 



Hab. Poona ; Ahmedabad. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus GNAMPTONYX, nov. 



Type, G. vilis, Wlk. 



Mange. Aden ; N.W. India. 



Palpi short and obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint roughly 

 scaled, the 3rd minute. Antennas fasciculated in male. Thorax and 

 abdomen smooth. Fore tibia with a pair of long crooked terminal 

 spines ; mid tibia spined and clothed above with large recumbent 

 scales. Pore wing somewhat quadrate at apex. 



2455. Gnamptonyx vilis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 889 ; C. $ S. no. 2468. 



yPale ochreous brown. Pore 

 /Bk /ff%\ w:ui g more or less suffused 

 /" V ^ fl with fuscous; slightly waved 



1 1 



ante- and postmedial dark 

 lines, the latter excurved be- 

 yond the cell ; a pale medial 

 ¥ig.2§&.— Gnamptonyx vilis, <$ . \. band and patch beyond the 



cell often present; an irre- 

 gularly waved ochreous submarginal line. Hind wing with post- 

 medial dark line and waved ochreous submarginal line. Underside 

 almost uniform whitish. 



Hah. Aden ; Punjab. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



Genus PSEUDOPHIA. 



Pseudophia, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 234 (1852). 



Type, P. illunaris, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palsearctic regions ; Aden ; N.W. India. 



Differs from Gnamptonyx in the palpi having the 3rd joint 

 longer ; the fore tibia without the crooked spines ; the mid tibia 

 without the large scales ; the mid and hind tibiae spined. 



2456. Pseudophia benenotata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 313 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 2440 a. 



S • Pale grey. Pore wing with indistinct subbasal and ante- 

 medial dark lines ; the reniform brownish, with dark edges ; an 

 indistinct postmedial line, excurved beyond the cell ; a pale waved 

 submarginal line, with brown inner edge ; a crenulate marginal 

 line. Hind wing pale brownish fuscous, the cilia whitish. 



Hab. Egypt ; Eawal Pindi. Exp. 30 millim. 



