rAR.liGl,!:. MET.tGLr. 



379 



Genus PAR^GLE, nov. 



Type, P. ochracea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi ol)lii|iiel_v iiptiinied, the 2nd joint reacliing 

 about to middle of IVons and rather broadly "fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 moderate, porrcet; frons with long pointed corneous process connected by a 

 keel with the plate below it wiiich is produced to three pryints in front and two 

 lateral points below; eyes large, round; autennte of male ciliated; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia smootldy scaled, 

 the fore tibiic with small claws on inner and outer sides; abdomen witliout 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen rather obliquely curved 

 and not crenulate : veins 3 aiid 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 19 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 stalked in male, from cell in female ; 5 obsolescent from well 

 below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 one third. 



4832. Paraegle ochracea. 



Mcfopoiiia ochracea, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 5.3, pi. 3. f. 52 (1874) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal p. 233. 

 Metoponia mbuchracea, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 324 (1891). 



Head and thorax yellow : palpi above and antenna? tinged with 

 rufous; abdomen yellow dors.illy tinned Avith ocbreous. Eore 

 wing yellow ; the costal edge tinged with rufous ; a rather narrow 

 rufous i)ostmedial band from oosta towards apex, oblique below 

 vein 7 ; cilia rufous. Hind wing yellowish white ; a rather indis- 

 tinct and diffused postmedial rufous line, excurved beloAv costa, 

 then obli(jue ; the termen tinged with rufous from apex to vein 4 ; 



Fig. ll'. — Tarceglc ochracea, S. \. 



a fine brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing tinged with 

 red-brown except the margins ; hind wing uniform yellowish 

 white. 



Al). 1. sahochracea. Smaller; fore wing with the markings 

 slight or almost obsolete; hind wing often 



aler, 



Hab. Si'RiA, Mardin ; W. Tukkkstan, Turcomania (Erschoff'), 

 1 2 , Tedscheu Oasis {Mauser), 1 J . E.r;p. d 24, § 2G millim. 



Genus MET.ffiGLE, nov. 



'J'ype, M. pallida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; jialpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 the frons and moderately fi-inged with hair ; frons with large pointed promi- 

 nence covered with hair with trilobate corneous ])late below ii. ; eyes large, 

 round; antenmv; of male minutely ciliated : thorax clothed almost entirely with 



