PARiEGLE. — METiEGLE. 379 



Genus PAR-ffiGLE, nov. 



Type, P. ockracea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and rather broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 moderate, porrect; frons with long pointed corneous process connected by a 

 keel with the plate below it which is produced to three points in front and two 

 lateral points below; eyes large, round; antenna; of male ciliated; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, 

 the fore tibiie with small claws on inner and outer sides; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen rather obliquely curved 

 and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; b' from upper angle ; 

 9 from 19 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 stalked in male, from cell in female ; 5 obsolescent from well 

 below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 one third. 



4882. Parsegle ochracea. 



Metoponia ochracea, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 53, pi. 3. f. 52 (1874) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal p. 233. 

 Metoponia subochracea, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 324 (1891). 



Head and thorax yellow : palpi above and antennae tinged -with 

 rufous ; abdomen yellow dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing yellow ; the costal edge tinged with rufous ; a rather narrow 

 rufous postinedial band from costa towards apex, oblique below 

 vein 7 ; cilia rufous. Hind wing yellowish white ; a rather indis- 

 tinct and diffused postmedial rufous line, excurved below costa, 

 then oblique ; the termen tinged with rufous from apex to vein 4 ; 



Fig. 177. — Taragh ochracca, rf . \. 



a fine brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing tinged with 

 red-brown except the margins ; hind wing uniform yellowish 

 white. 



Ab. 1. suhochracea. Smaller; fore wing with the markings 

 slight or almost obsolete ; hind wing often paler. 



Hab. Syria, Mardin ; W. Ttjrkestax, Turcomania (Erschoff), 

 1 5 , Tedschen Oasis (Hauser), 1 J . E.rp. S 24, § 26 millim. 



Genus MET.EGLE, nov. 



Type, M. pallida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 the frons and moderately fringed with hair ; frons with large pointed promi- 

 nence covered with hair with trilobate corneous plate below it, ; eyes large, 

 round; antenna; of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 



