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nocxuillt:. 



scales and without crests : fore tibiae with small spine on inner side at extremity 

 covered with hair, the tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests, For',) 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, 

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

 mosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4833. Metsegle pallida. 



Metoponik 'pallida, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 323 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 



3 . Head and thorax yellowish white ; abdomen fulvous yellow, 

 the anal tuft yellowish white. Fore wing pale yellow slightly 

 tinged with reddish towards termen ; a red-brown spot on costa 

 towards apex ; cilia red-brown at base, pure white at tips. Hind 





Fig. 178.— Metcegle pallida, J. \. 



wing pale yellow slightly tinged with reddish towards termen ; 

 cilia pale reddish yellow at base, pure white at tips ; the underside 

 white with the costal and terminal areas tinged with yellow. 



Hah. Syria, Mardin, 1 <3 , 1 $ ; Mesopotamia. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus JEGLE. 



Type. 



Mgle, Hiibn. Verz. p. 257(1827) cwceritsiana. 



Metoponia, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 187(1844) caceritziana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short and hardly reaching 

 to middle of frons, slender ; frons with large rounded prominence wilh 

 long bilobed process from middle and curved corneous plate below it produced 

 to a point at middle ; eyes large, round; antennas of male minutely ciliated; 

 thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales and without crests ; tibia? 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat. 

 produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 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 below middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing tinged with yellow. 



a. Hind wing yellow with postmedial and terminal red 



brown 1 ines vespertalis. 



b. Hind wing entirely fuscous brown. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with postmedial line. 



a-. Fore wing with antemedial line. 



