riNACOPLUS. METOPOPLUS. 



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Genus PINACOPLUS, nov. 



Type, P. didymogramma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond the frons 

 and moderately fringed with scales below; frons with long shovel-shaped 

 plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed and without crests ; tibia? slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia? with long 

 curved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; fi from upper angle ; 

 '.) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from well below middle 

 of discocellulars : 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



46U3. Pinacophis didymogramma. 



Mi/ctcroplus didymogramma, Ersch. Fedtsch. Eeis. p. 44, pi. 3. f. 43 (1874) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; palpi at tips, sides of frons, 

 antennae and legs tinged with ochreous ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged with ochreous on basal half. Fore wing yellowish white ; 

 antemedial line double, rufous, rather diffused, the inner line 

 indistinct, slightly angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial 



Fig. 90.--Pinacoplus didymogramma, §. }• 



line double, rather diffused, the outer line indistinct, oblique, 

 slightly excurved beyond lower angle of cell and bent outwards 

 to inner margin, the veins beyond it slightly streaked with rufous ; 

 cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing white faintly tinged with 

 yellow and with traces of curved rufous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestax, Turcomania (Ersehojf), 1 $, Ferghana. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus METOPOPLUS. 



Type. 



Metopoplus, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 92(1892) ex'celsa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching as far as frons 

 and slightly fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded corneous process 

 from middle with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia with long curved c'aw on 



