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TMETOGLENE. 
Tmetoglene, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. vi. p. 235 (vice Brachyglenis, p. 78). 
Metapheles, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. iii. p. 155. 
_ We now know of four species belonging to this genus (two of which are here 
described for the first time), three of them being found in our region; the fourth is 
from Brazil, the extreme southern limit of the genus. 
We have dissected specimens of Tmetoglene esthema and T. dodone, and we find in 
them no tangible generic differences. Metapheles dinora appears to be essentially the 
same so far as external characters go, nor can we trace the difference in the neuration 
of the primaries spoken of by Mr. Bates when he described the genus; all the peculiar 
markings of the body are similar in both types; we therefore unite them under one 
genus. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries in 7’. esthema emits one branch before the 
end of the cell and two after it; the upper radial meets the subcostal beyond the end 
of the cell; the middle discocellular is atrophied, and meets the subcostal at an acute 
angle a little beyond the first branch ; the lower discocellular is atrophied towards its. 
upper end; it meets the median at an acute angle a little beyond the second branch ; 
the costal side of the cell is very little shorter than the median side. The secondaries 
have a basal nervure; the discocellulars are atrophied towards the middle, the upper 
meets the subcostal a little before the first branch, the lower the median just beyond 
the second branch; the costal side is much shorter than the median side; the cells of 
both wings are very short. In Z. dodone the first subcostal branch of the primaries 
anchyloses with the costal, but to a different extent in the wings of the same insect. 
The front legs in the male of 7. esthema have the trochanter inserted a little 
beyond the middle of the coxa, the femur =} coxa, tibia > coxa, tarsus = femur + 
trochanter; in M/. dodone both the coxa and tibia are rather stouter. The palpi 
(M. dodone) have a short terminal joint = middle joint, which is stout, tapering 
gradually towards the end; the basal joint is dilated and longer than the terminal joint. 
The harpagones have two lobes: the upper one is narrow and directed forwards, the 
lower one springs from the base and is long and club-shaped, and extends upwards 
to the lobes of the tegumen. The strap to the penis, after proceeding forwards, 
bends back to the base of the harpagone; at the angle a long piece projects outwards 
in the middle line. ‘These parts are practically the same in 7. dodone; the lower lobe 
of the harpagones is shorter. 
1. Tmetoglene dinora. (Tab. XLII. fig. 1.) 
Metapheles dinora, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. iii. p. 155°. 
Alis hyalinis ; marginibus, venis omnibus et fascia in anticis obliqua ultracellulari a costa ad angulum analem 
transeunte nigris letissime nitido-cyaneo lavatis; anticis plaga ultra fasciam transversam albicante venis 
divisa ; fronte nigra utrinque alba; cruribus anticis albis ; abdomine cyaneo-nigro utrinque ochraceo-rufo, 
© mari similis, anticis ut semper magis rotundatis, 
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