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inner side ; abdomen without, crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly 

 straight, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 

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

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 I from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with triangular white spot on antemedial line 



just below the cell excelsa. 



B. Fore wing without white spot on antemedial line fixseni. 



*4604. Metopoplus excelsa. 



Clidia excelsa, Christ. Eom. Mem. ii. p. -2i)b, pi. 13. f. 4 (1885) ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 222. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow. Fore wing yellow mixed 

 with some brown and white ; subbasal line dark brown defined by 

 reddish brown on outer side, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 dark brown, slightly sinuous, interrupted just below the cell by a small 

 triangular pure white spot defined by dark brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform absent ; a diffused reddish-brown medial shade ; postmedial 

 line dark brown, excurved below costa and at middle, then slightly 

 sinuous ; a diffused red-brown band beyond it expanding to near 

 termen between veins 7 and 6 and to termen between veins 5 and 4 ; 

 cilia chequered pale yellow and reddish brown. Hind wing pale 

 yellow. 



llab. Armenia ; Persia, Schahkuh. Exp. 4'2 millim. _ This 

 species is unknown to me. 



4605. Metopoplus fixseni. 



Metopoplus fixseni, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1893); Alph. Eom. Mem. is. 

 p. 221, pi. b. f. (5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 



S . Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with ochreous ; fore 

 femora brown above ; tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen yellowish 



Fig. 91. — Metopoplus fixseni, <$ ■ ]. 



white dorsally suffused Avith brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the 

 ante- and postmedial areas suffused with brownish ochreous ; ante- 

 medial line rufous, double, the inner line indistinct, curved ; a 

 medial brownish ochreous shade ; postmedial line rufous, double, 

 the outer line indistinct, slightly excurved below costa and at 

 median nervules, incurved at discal fold and below vein 15 and bent 



