452 



K0CTFII).T5. 



1796. Aspidifrontia axylides. (Plate XCI. fig. 6.) 



Hadcna axylides, Huipsn. Journ. Buiiib. Soc. Xat. Hist. xiv. p. 198 

 (1902). 



9 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 "with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing lilacine grej'- 

 wliite, the costal area beyond antemedial line and the area beyond 

 postmedial line ochreous, the costal and terminal areas suffused 

 ^vith brown except at apex ; the basal area below the cell suffused 

 ■with purple-brown ; the subbasal line represented by a black 

 striga from costa ; the antemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and cell and above inner mrrgin, emitting long teeth in coll 

 and on median nervure to near end of cell ; claviform small, 

 defined or filled in with brown ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform 

 narrow, with whitish centre defined by brown and ochreous annulus 

 defined by black on onter side, some dark brown between its lower 

 part and postmedial line, which is double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line minutely waved, 

 defined by brown on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of pale points ; cilia 

 ochreous and brown. Hind wing white. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1800 feet {Dadgeon), 1 5 ; Madras, Belgaum 

 {Watson), 1 5 type. Exp. 30 millim. 



1797. Aspidifrontia rufescens. (Plate XCI. fig. 7.) 



Asjndifrontia mjhce/is, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 270 (1902). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with purplish pink and brown ; 

 palpi and frons blackish; abdomen oclireuus white. Fore wing 

 ochreous white thickly irrorated with purplish red ; the veins 

 irrorated with black ;,traces of an antemedial line ; a dark point in 

 end of cell ; postmedial line represented by an obscure double series 

 of white points on the veins, excurved below costa, then oblique ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 terminal area suft'used with brown ; the underside with the costal 

 area tinged with purplish and irrorated wdth brown. 



Frontal process long. 



Hab. Mashojstaland (Jlarshall, Dohhie), 2 c? , 3 5? Umtali 

 {Marshall), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus METOPIORA. 



Type. 



Metopiora, Mej'r. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 25 sanguinata. 



Proboscis minute; palpi oblique, short, slender; frons with large disc- 

 shaped corneous prouiineuce with raised edges and central truncate conical 

 process also with raised edges, a corneous plate below the frons ; eyes large, 

 rounded; anteunte of male minutely serrate; head and thorax clothed wilh 

 hair only and without cre»ts; lore tarsi with the joints very short, the claws 

 large ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the a.\)es. somewhat produced. 



