Mfiroporu.'s. — m fcteropltjs. 



231 



outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line only defined by the 

 contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards 

 at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 brown ; a line brown terminal line ; cilia with series of rufous spots 

 at tips. Hind wing yellowish white ; an indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line and pale rufous terminal band from apex to vein 1 ; a 

 red-brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with rufous 

 suffusion in cell leaving a round whitish orbicular stigma, the 

 postmedial band rufous; hind wing faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Achal Tekke. 1 S • &ty>. 

 36 millim. 



Genus MYCTEROPLUS. 



-type- 

 Mycteroplus, Ilerr.-Schiiff. Eur. Scbmett. ii. p. 242 (1849; ... puniceago. 

 StepJiania, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 172 (1852) puniceago. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the frons 

 and fringed with long hair below ; irons with round corneous prominence with 

 raised edges and curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna 1 

 of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae fringed with long hair, 

 the fore tibia short and rather dilated, the 1st joint of tarsus with four curved 

 claws on outer side longer at extremity ; abdomen with dorsal crest at bast- 

 only. Fore wing with, lie apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and hardly 

 crenulate; \eins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; fi from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing v\ith 8 to form the areoJe ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins .'!, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 G, 7 from upper angle; S anastomosing with cell near base only. 



460(5. Mycteroplus puniceago. 



Xanthia puniceago, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 146 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iv.'p. 234, pi. 70. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



ff. 43, 4^6 ; Err. Neue Beitr. pi. 516. f. 4; Guen. Noct. ii, p. 173. pi. ?. 



f. 8; Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 139. ff'. 6, 7 ; Alph. Iris, viii. p. 175 (fig.); 



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

 Mycteroplus viridieolor, Erul. Rev. Russe, Ent. i. p. 237 (1901). 



Head and thorax pale yellow suffused with rufous ; pectus and 

 legs pale yellow, the fore legs tinged with rufous ; abdomen white 





Fig. 92. — Mycteroplus puniceago, <$ . \. 



dorsally tinged with rufous at base. Fore wing pale yellow siigh 

 suffused wit h rufous ; a faint subbasal rufous striga from costa 



