PINACOPLUS. — METOrOPLUS. 



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Genus PINACOPLUS, nov. 



Tjpe, P. didymogramma. 

 "' Proboscis fully developed ; palpi pon-ect, hardly reachiug beyond the frons 

 and moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with long shovel-shaped 

 ))late rather hollowed out above and with cnrved corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, ronnd ; antennte of female ciliated ; thorax clotlied with hair and scales 

 mixed and without crests ; tibias slightly fringed with hair, the foretibite with long 

 cin-ved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 cost.i nearly straight, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulato ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; B Irom 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 well below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



46(j3. Pinacoplns didyniogramma. 



Mycteroplus didyvioqramma, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 44, pi. 3. f. 43 (1874) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep.'pal. p. 222. 



2 . Head and thorax white ; palpi at tips, sides of frons, 

 antennae and legs tinged with ochreous ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged with ochreous on basal half. Fore wing yellowish white ; 

 antemedial line double, rufous, rather diffused, the inner line 

 indistinct, slightly angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial 



Fig. 90. — Pinacoplus didjpnogramma, 5. {• 



line double, rather difFiised, the outer line indistinct, oblique, 

 slightly excurved beyond lower angle of cell and bent outwards 

 to inner margin, the veins beyond it slightly streaked with rufous ; 

 cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing white faintly tinged with 

 yellow and with traces of curved rufous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Turcomanla (ErscJioJ'), 1 $ , Ferghana. 

 Exj). 40 millim. 



Genus METOPOPLUS, 



Type. 



Metopoplus, Alph, Iris, vi. p. 92(1892) excels 



'sa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porroct, liar(31y reaching as far as frons 

 and slightly fringed with hair below; frons with rounded corneous process 

 from middle with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenute of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia with long curved c'aw on 



