3S0 KOCTUID.T,. 



scales and without cre.-ts : fore tibise with small spine on inner side at extremity 

 covered with hair, the tibijB smoothly scaled ; abdomen witliout crests, Fore 

 wing with tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 'i 

 from angle of cell ; .'i obsolescent from just below middle of di.-cocellulars ■ 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; S anastomosing with the cell near b.ise only. 



4833. Metaegle pallida. 



Metoponia pallida, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 323 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 



S . Head and thorax yello^vish white ; abdomen fulvous yellow, 

 the anal tuft yellowish white. Pore wing pale yellow slightly 

 tinged with reddish towards termen ; a red-brown spot on costa 

 towards apex ; cilia red-brown at base, pure white at tips. Hind 



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Pig. 178. — Metwgle paliida , J. 



wing pale yellow sliglitly tinged with reddish towards termen ; 

 cilia pale reddish yellow at base, pure white at tips ; the underside 

 white with the costal and terminal areas tinged with yellow. 



Hab. Sykia, Mardin, 1 d , 1 $; Mesopotamia. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus ^GLE. 



Type. 



^^fo, Hiibn. Verz. p. 1-57(1827) coeceritsiana. 



Metoponia, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 187 (1844) coiceritziana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short and hardly reaching 

 to middle of frons, slender ; frons with large rounded prominence witli 

 long bilobed process from middle and curved corneous plate below it produced 

 to a point at middle ; eyes large, round; antennae of male minutely ciliated; 

 thorax suioothly clothed with hair and scales and without crests; tibiiB 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 ibrm the areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsole.5cent from below middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing tinged with yellow. 



a. Hind wing yellow with postmedial and terminal red 



brown lines vespertalis. 



b. Hind wing entirely fuscous brown. 

 a}. Fore wing with postmedial line. 



a-. Fore wing with antemedial line. 



