MErOPIORA. 



-DIAPUONi;. 



453 



the terinen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witlj 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the eel 

 near base only. 



1798. Metopiora sangniiiata, 



Chariclea sanguinata, Lucas, Proc. Linu. Soc. N. S. W. 1892, p. 254. 



$ . Head pink ; thorax orange-yellow, tcguljB at extremities and 

 patagia pink ; legs mostly pink ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow ; a pink lascia from base at vein 1, running below 

 the cell, then rather obliquely to termen at vein 5, narrowing 



Fig. 127. — Me(oj)iora sanguinata, cj". 



beyond the cell, then expanding at termen ; the costal edge pink, 

 expanding into a fascia from beyond middle to apex ; cilia yjink, 

 expanding into a spot on termen above tornus. Hind wing white 

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Genus DIAPHONE. 



Type. 



Biaphone, Hiibn. Verz. p. 188 (1827) eumcla. 



T(B)iiopyga, Wilgrn. ffifv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. p. 212 (1858)... eumela 



Proboscis -weak ; palpi short, porrect, clothed with hair; frons with large 

 rounded prominence with lateral walls and roughened or convoluted centre ; 

 eyes large, rouuded ; antenna; of male serrate and ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without distinct cresis; fore tar.^i with the joints 

 short, the unwues laroe ; abdomen with some long hair at base, but without 

 dorsal crest. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; 

 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 middle of discocellulars ; 

 G, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1799. Diaphone eumela. 



Noctica eumela, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 347. f. G (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 



Het. p. 909. 

 Bombi/x elegans, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 116 (1787). 

 Nodua sxjlviana, Stoll, Pap. Esot. v. Suppl. pi. 40. f. 4 (1790\ 

 Chclonia evidens, Guer. Icon. R. Anim., Ins. p. 513, pi. 88. f. 1 (1829). 

 Biaphone mossambicoisis, Hopff. Peters's Reise Moss., Zool. v. p. -131, pi. 28. 



ff 6, 7 (1862) 

 Biaphone angolensis, Weym. Ent. Zeit. Guben, no. 18, p. 67 (1901). 



(S . Head blackish ; palpi below and at tips, spots on sides of frons, 



