452 yocniD.K. 



179(3. Aspidifrontia axylides. (Plate XCI. fiy. 6.) 



Hailena axylides, lliiipsii. Journ. Bomb. Soc. J\iit. Hist. xiv. p. 198 

 (1002). 



9 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed vitli ^vey ; tarsi 

 witli pale rings; abdomen ochrcous. Fore "wing lilacine grej'- 

 wliite, the costal area beyond antcmedial line and llie area beyond 

 post medial line ochreous, tlie costal and (,erminal areas suffused 

 uitli brown except at apes ; the basal area below the cell suffused 

 ■with ])urplo-brown ; the subbasal line represented by a black 

 striga from costa; the anteraedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and cell and above inner mrrgin, emitting long teeth in cell 

 and on median nervure to near end of cell; claviform small, 

 defined or filled in with brown; orbicular obsolete; reiiiform 

 narrow, with whitisli centre defined by brown and ochreous unnulus 

 defined by black on outer side, some dark brown between its lower 

 part and postmedial line, which is double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line minutely waved, 

 defined by brown on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of pale points ; cilia 

 ochreous and brown. Hind wing white. 



Hdh. SiKHiM, 1800 feet {Dudgeon), 1 $ ; Madras, Eelgaura 

 ( }Y(ttson), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 mlllim. 



1797. Aspidifrontia rufescens. (Plate XCI. fig. 7.) 



Aspidifrontia ri(fcsreiis, Huipsn. Anu. S. At'r. Mas. ii. p. 270 (1902). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with purplish pink and brown ; 

 palpi and frons blackish; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 ochreous white thickly irrorated with purplish red ; the veins 

 irrorated with black ; traces of an aiitemedial line ; a dark point in 

 end of cell; postmedial line represented by an obscure double series 

 of white points on the veins, excurved below costa, then oblique ; 

 a terminal series of black ])oints. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; tlie underside with the costal 

 area tinged with purplish and irrorated with brown. 



Frontal process long. 



//a?;. Masuoxaland {MarshaU, Dohhie), 2 c? , 3 5 , Tmtali 

 (Marshall), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millira. 



Genus METOPIORA. 



Type. 

 Mciopiora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. See. 1902, p. 25 sanguinata. 



Proboscis minute; palpi oblique, short, slender; Irons wilb large disc- 

 sbaprd corneuus pronuneuce with raised edges and central truncate conical 

 process also with raised edges, a corneous plate below the irons ; cjes large, 

 rounded; anteunse of male minutely serrate; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair only and without crests; lore tarsi with the joints very short, the claws 

 large ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing will) the apex somewhat produced. 



