. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 642 NOCTUIDiE. Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. Type, M. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to Tertex of bead, the 2nd joiut moderately scaled, the 3id sliort; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£E of male ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and witliout crests; tibiae sliglitly fringed wilh hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing witli lobe and scale-tooth on middle of inner margin, then excised, the termen evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; () from belo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 642 NOCTUIDiE. Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. Type, M. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to Tertex of bead, the 2nd joiut moderately scaled, the 3id sliort; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£E of male ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and witliout crests; tibiae sliglitly fringed wilh hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing witli lobe and scale-tooth on middle of inner margin, then excised, the termen evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; () from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell; C, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. "^7092. Microxestis vutzdorffi. EuxesHs wutzdorffi, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 223, pi. vii. fig. 5 (1907). cT . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous sufTused with rufous: the antemedial line represented by a faint oblique pale shade ; a faint rufous medial shade, oblique below the cell; a minute black discoidal point; postmedial line very indistinct, fine, rufous, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold and. Fig. 2G0.—Microxestis vuizdwffi, S • \- incurved below vein 4, some small whitish spots beyond it on costa ; a small whitish subapical spot with black point on its outer edge. Hind wing white, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous ; cilia white; the underside white with the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. ilah. Palestine, Jordan, type f in Coll. Gotschmann. Ecc^. 16 millim. Genus AECYOPHORA. Type. Arcyophora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 378 (IBM) lovgivalvis. Euxesiis, Led. Hor, See. Ent. Eoss. vi. p. 88 (18G9) denttda. Pseudocalpe, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 566 (1894) deniida. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately
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