METOPOCERAS. , 117 



crests. Fore wing short and broad, the termen evenly rounded ; 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 with the terminal area paler, the subterminal line 



strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds beata. 



B, Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous, the sub- 



terminal line not angled inwards in discal and submedian 

 folds. 



a. Fore wing with distinct black subterminal line angled 



outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 canteiieri. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line obsolescent. 



«'. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown felicina. 



h^. Fore wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ... gmicleri. 

 c^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a?. Fore wing with fuscous suffusion before antemedial 



and beyond postmedial lines chcdildja. 



b'^. Fore wing without fuscous suffusion before ante- 

 medial and beyond postmedial lines omar. 



. *2216. ? Metopoceras beata. 



Metopoceras beata, Staud, Iris, iv. p. 274, pi. 3. f. 9 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 175. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brownish grey mixed with pale 

 brownish gre}' ; pectus and legs pale, the tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings : abdomen fuscous grey. Fore wing dark brownish grey 

 mixed with pale brownish grey, the terminal area pale ; subbasal 

 line double filled in with grey, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, angled outward 

 below costa, then waved ; orbicular and reniform small, with dark 

 centres and whitish aunuli defined by black, the former round ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 only defined by the contrast between the dark and pale terminal 

 areas, strongly angled inwards in discal and subterminal folds; a 

 fine waved terminal line ; cilia whitish with a dark line through 

 them. Hind wing brownish grey with the terminal area broadly 

 fuscous ; a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line ; cilia 

 chequered white and fuscous. 



Hab. Asia Minor, Taurus, Hajin. Exp. 30 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me, the figure resembles somewhat Heterographa 

 zelleri. 



*2217. Metopoceras canteneri. 



Folia canteneri, Dup. Eev. Ent. Silb. i. 1, p. 37, pi. 3 (1833) ; id. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 267, pi. 2.5. f. 2 ; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 824 ; Embr. 

 Oat. Lep. S. And. pi. 6. f. 5 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 



Folia insueta, Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 268, Noct. f. 491 (1845). 



Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with a few dark scales ; 

 abdomen paler red-brown. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with a 



