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Genus METALOPHA. ,,, 



A/e/ff/o;j^o, Siaiul. Iris, iv. p. 313 (1891) Uturata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with rough 

 liair in front, the 3rd joint short ; frons with large corneous prominence with 

 raised edges, its lower edge produced into a trilobate process; eyes lai-ge, 

 rounded, antenna' of male simple, laminate ; head and thorax clothed with 

 rough hair, the vertex of head with large ci-ests, the pro- and nietathorax with 

 double crests ; pectus and tibiaj clothed with long hair; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced, the ternien obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; (i fr. m upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing wiih veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 rather strong from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Head, thorax, and fore wing largely suffused with purpli.-h 



pink gloriosa. 



B. Head, thorax, and fore wing olive-brown and white without 



pink sufiusion Uturata. 



2202. Metalopha gloriosa. (Plate XCIX. fig. G.) 



Mctalopha qhriosa, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 314, pi. 4. f. 7 (18'Jl) ; id. Cat. Lcp. 

 pal. p. 223. 



(S . Head and thorax purplish pink more or less mixed with 

 groy-white ; abdomen grcy-'ohite mixed with fuscous and olive- 

 yellow, the lateral fringes and ventral surface purplit-h pink, i'oro 

 wing with the veins purplish grey ; the basal area dark olive-green ; 

 the antemedial line fine, grey, oblique from costa to subniedian 

 fold, then slightly incurved ; the medial area suffused with purplish 

 ])ink and grey with some dark irroration ; orbicular and reniform 

 very small, defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow ; 

 postmcdial line grey, very oblique, slightly excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then slightly incurved, an olive-green band beyond it ; the 

 terminal area purplish pink with some dark irroration ; a terminal 

 scries of slightly darker lunules ; cilia purplish pink and grey with 

 some dark scales. Hind wing olive-brown ; a discoidal spot 

 slightly defined by white ; a faint diffused medial greyish band; 

 terminal area slightly tinged with pink : cilia pink with series of 

 brown sj)ots ; the underside pink or whitish suffused with pink and 

 with some dark irroratio7i, a dark discoidal point. 



JrJah. Asia Mjnok, Taurus, 1 cT ; Sykia, Mardin ; Palestine; 

 Mesopotamia, 1 J . E,r2:). \M) millim. 



2203. Metalopha Uturata. 



Megalodc.t litvratn, Christ. Eom. Mem. iii. p. ^9, pi. 4. f. 10 (1887); 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ]). 223. 

 Metalopha p/asina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 313, pi. 4. i. 8 (1891). 



(5. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with olivc-grecn. 



