. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 286 NOCTUIDj;. rufous; tlie underside wliite, the costiil area faintly tinged witli rufous. ^fb. Palestine, Ain-Dscliidi in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 40 millini. Genus GNAMPTONYX. Typo. Gnampfonyx, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) ;. Proboscis fully fleveloped ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reacliing to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porrect and thickly sealed; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennEB of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 286 NOCTUIDj;. rufous; tlie underside wliite, the costiil area faintly tinged witli rufous. ^fb. Palestine, Ain-Dscliidi in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 40 millini. Genus GNAMPTONYX. Typo. Gnampfonyx, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) ;. Proboscis fully fleveloped ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reacliing to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porrect and thickly sealed; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennEB of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibice slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiae short with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, the mid of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of scales, the hind tibire not spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeii evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins .3, 4 from angle ; r, fully developed from above angle ; (5, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only. A. Wings with the lines distinct vHis. B. Wings with the lines almost obsolete ohsolcta. 8092. Gnamptonyx vilis. Homopfera vilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 889 (1805); Ilmpsti. Motiis Ind. ii p. 480. Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; antenna? ringed with black ; jwlpi white with some black towards extremity of 2nd and on 3rd joints ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Tore wing white mixed with ochreous brown and black-brown ; subbasal line represented b^- black stria^ from costa and cell; ante- medial line black, waved, excurved in submedian interspace, a. Fig. 70. — Giiampt(ji}i/.r vilis, ^ white band Ix-yond it; rcnifonn indistinctly defined by blackish and with some blackish above it on costa ; a white ]iatch
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