METOPTA. 



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only and without crests ; all the tibi^ spined, the fore tibiaj fringed with long 

 hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibine smoothly sealed ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair at base of dorsum, but without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the terinen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 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 the cell about one-third 

 length of wing ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7422. Metopta rectifasciata. 



Spirama rectifasciata. Men. Cat. Lep. ETet. Mus. Petr. pi. 17. f. 6 (1803). 

 S'piramia japonica, Wlk. xxxiii. 948 (18G5), nee Guen. 

 Spirama interlineata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 291 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B.M ii. p. 41, pi. 34. f. 2. 



Head and thorax dark brown, the latter with the hairs slightlj' 

 tipped with ochreous ; tegulse slightly tipped with ochreous ; an- 

 tennsB brownish white; legs brownish white above; abdomen dark 

 brown. Eore wing dark brown, the basal, costal, and terminal 

 areas strongly suffused with purple-grey ; an indistinct sinuous dark 



Fig. 50. — Metopta rectifasciata, (5 . \. 



antemedial line ; an inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark with 

 trilobate head, defined by black and on inner and outer sides of tail 

 by yellowish white, its head with blue-black streaks at the indenta- 

 tions, its centre pale red-brown irrorated with white, a diffused 

 black patch beyond the tail with red-brown beyond it and the head 

 of the discoidal mark ; medial line black defined on outer side by 

 yellowish white, arising from the tail of the discoidal mark and ex- 

 curved round and below it, then erect to inner margin ; a yellowish 



