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GNOPHOS, Treit. 
Gnoplios oMectaria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 8.) 
Gnophos obtectaria, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Hd. Siq^pd. v. p. 1597 (1806). 
Fuliginous brown : wings with a faint pink sliot ; numerous transverse striations a little 
paler than the ground-colour ; a slender dentate-sinuate arched hlack line across the disk, 
crossed by an indistinct undulated grey belt, the sinuations of which enclose a submarginal 
series of white points : primaries crossed at basal third by a second slender black line. "Wings 
below dull white, sparsely brown-speckled, with brownisli borders and a broad chocolate- 
brown discal belt; a blackish discocellular dash and an arched series of blackisli points at 
a short distance beyond the cell: body below pale sandy brownish. Expanse of wings 
56 millim. 
Darjiling {Atkinson ^ Lidderdale) ; Nepal {Wright). 
Gnophos sereus. (Plate CXVI. fig. 9.) 
Gnophos ffireus, Butler, Ann. S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 128. n. 34 (1880). 
Bronzy green, sprinkled here and there with bluish white and mottled with black : wings 
with brown fringes, slightly speckled at the base with bluish white^ and traversed by a dark 
brown line ; a marginal undulated blackish line ; a submarginal series of blackish lunulas, 
speckled internally with bluish- white scales; the two usual irregularly sinuated blackish lines 
indicating the central belt, the inner one obsolete on the secondaries ; a blackish spot on the 
discocellulars : primaries with a blackish subbasal line : abdomen brownish. Wings below 
brownish grey, sericeous, with darker discocellular dots, undulated discal line, and diffused 
discal belt ; apex of each of the wings w'hitish ; a marginal series of conical blackish spots, 
base of fringe whitish : body below pale smoky brown. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
Allied to G. muscosaria. 
Gnophos muscosaria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 10.) 
Gnophos muscosaria, WaJker, Cat. Lep. Het. Svppl. v. p. 1596 (1866). 
Bronze-green, a very irregular baud across the disk of the wings, and separating the 
central belt from the external border, paler and brighter in colour, pale yellowish, spotted 
with pearl-white internally and reddish olivaceous externally ; a second pale band near the 
