MElOnOKA. BIAPHONE. 45S 



the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 arul 5 from near angle of eell ; 6 from 

 u]iper angle ; 9 from 10 anasloino.sing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the eel 

 near base t>nly. 



ITUS. Metopiora sangxiinata. 



Chariclea sanguluata, Lucas, Proc. Liim. Soe. N. S. W. 1892, p. 254. 



2 . Head pink ; thorax orange-yellow, tcguloe at extremities and 

 patagia pink ; legs mostly pink ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow ; a pink fascia from base at vein 1, running below 

 the cell, then rather obliquely to termeii at vein 5, narrowing 



Fig. 127. — Metopiora samjiiinaf a, (J. \. 



beyond the cell, then expanding at termen ; the costal edge pink, 

 expanding into a fascia from beyond middle to apex ; cilia pink, 

 expanding into a spot on termen above tornus. Hind wing white 

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Genus DIAPHONE. 



Type. 



Diriphone, Hiibn. Verz. p. 188 (1827) eumda. 



TcEniopijga, Wilgru. OCfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. p. 212 (1858)... eumela 



Proboscis weak ; palpi short, porrect, clothed with hair; frons with large 

 rounded prominence with lateral walls and roughened or convoluted centre ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male serrate and ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without distinct cresis; fore tarsi with the joints 

 short, the ungues large; abdon)en with some long hair at b.ise, but without 

 dorsal crest. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternieu, obliquely curved ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10, 

 auastuniosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 C, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1799. Diaphone eumela. 



yoctua eumda, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 347. f. G (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 



Het. )j. 909. 

 Bumhtjx cleganx, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 116 (1787). 

 Noclua sylviana, Stoll, Pap. Exot. v. Suppl. pi. 40. f. 4 (1790). 

 Chdonia evidens, Guer. Icon. R. Anim., Ins. p. 613, pi. 88. f. J (1829). 

 Diaphone /nossambicensis, Hopfl". Peters'sReise Moss., Zool. v. p. -131, pi. 28. 



ff. fi, 7 (1862) 

 Diaphone angolensis, Weym. Ent. Zeit. Guben, no. 18, p. 67 (1901). 



cJ . Head blackish ; palpi below and at tips, spots on sides of frons, 



