MfiTOPOPLCS. — M VCTEROPLUS. 



231 



outwards to ititier margin ; subteriuinal line only detiiied by the 

 contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards 

 at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 lirown ; a tine brown terminal line ; cilia witli series of rufous s[)ots 

 a^ tips. Hind wing j'ellowish white ; an indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line and pale rufous terminal band from apex to vein 1 ; a 

 red-brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with rufous 

 suHusion in cell leaving a round whitish orbicular stigma, the 

 jjostmedial band rufous; hind wing faintly tinged witli rufous. 



Uab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Aclial Tekke, 1 c? . Kcj). 

 36 millim. 



M//cferop/ti.<, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schraett. i 

 kiiephaniu, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 172 (1852) ... 



Genus MYCTEROPLUS. 



p. 242 (1849) 



Type. 



■piuik-i'ucjo. 

 'puniceago. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the froiis 

 and tringeti with long hair beluw ; irons with round corneous prominence with 

 rnised edges and curved corneoua plate below it; eyes large, round ; autennse 

 of male laminate and almost simjjle ; tlioi-ax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 llie pro- and metatliorax with spreading crests; libiie I'ringed with long hair, 

 the fore tibia sliort and rather dilated, the 1st joint of tarsus with four curved 

 claws on outer side longer at extremity ; ahdouieu with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with; he apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and hardly 

 cremilate; \eins 'S and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 an:istom(Jsiiig with 8 to form the areo'e ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins o, 4 from angle oi cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeelhilars ; 

 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



460(3. Mycterophis piniiceago. 



Xanthia puniceago, Boisd. Gen, & Ind. Meth. p. 146 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iv.'p. 234, pi. 70. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noc't. 



fF. 43, 436 ; Frr. Neue Eeitr. pi. 516. f. 4; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 173. pi. ?. 



f. 8; Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 139. ff. 6, 7 ; Alph. Iris, vih. p. 175 (fig.); 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 

 Mt/ctero2}lus viridicolor, Ivrul. Eev. Russe, Eut. i. p. 237 (1901). 



Head and thorax pale yellow suffused with rufous ; pectus and 

 legs pale yellow, the fore legs tinged with rufous ; abdomen white 





Fig. ^'2.—Myctero2}lits pimiceago, (^ , 



dorsally tinged with rufous at base. Fore wing j)ale vollow sii^h 

 suffused with rufous ; a faint subbasal rufous striga from costa 



