. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 286 N0CTUID2E, rvifous; the vinderside white, the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. Hah. Palestine, Ain-Dschidi in Coll. Piingeler. Eocp. 40 millim. Genus GNAMPTONYX. Gnamptonyx, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) Type. vilis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with Ihe 2nd joint upturned, reaching to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porreet and thickly scaled; frons smooth: eyes large, round; antennas of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 286 N0CTUID2E, rvifous; the vinderside white, the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. Hah. Palestine, Ain-Dschidi in Coll. Piingeler. Eocp. 40 millim. Genus GNAMPTONYX. Gnamptonyx, Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) Type. vilis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with Ihe 2nd joint upturned, reaching to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porreet and thickly scaled; frons smooth: eyes large, round; antennas of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibite slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibise short with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, the mid tibite of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of scales, the hind tibife not spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 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; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only. A. Wings with the lines distinct vilis. 13. Wings with the lines almost obsolete ohsoleta. 8092. Gnamptonyx vilis. Homopfem vilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 889 (18G5); Ilmpsti. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480. Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; antennae ringed with black ; palpi white with some black towards extremity of 2nd and on 3rd joints ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white mixed with ochreous brown and black-brown; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and cell; ante- medial line black, waved, excurved in submedian interspace, a. "Fig. 70.—Gnamptunyx vilis, S- t- white band beyond it; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish and with some blackish above it on costa; a white patch beyond the c
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