CHELICHAEES. METAPIOPLASTA. VI 9 



patch on inner margin from middle to subterminal line with 

 portions of the incurved medial and postmedial olive-brown lines on 

 it ; snbterminal line white defined on inner side by olive-brown and 

 purple-grey, excurved below vein 7, slightly waved at middle and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; terminal area blue-grey with black 



Fig. 205. — Chclic liar e s nuhif era, (^ . \. 



marks irrorated with blue-grey at apex and tornus; a terminal 

 series of dark strise defined on inner side by a white line ; cilia 

 brownish and white. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly 

 suffused with brown. 



Jtlab. Akgentina, Metan, 1 (S type. Exjo. 26 millim. 



Genus METAPIOPLASTA. 



lype. 

 Metapioplasfa, Wllgni. Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. 3. 



p. 70 1^1 864) insocia. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, .short; frons with a 

 prouiinence produced to a flattened trilobate plate at middle and with a 

 corneous plate below it somewhat e.xcised in front ; ej-es large, round ; antenn:E 

 of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely witli scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decum- 

 bent crest ; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing raiher 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creniilate ; veins 

 3 and 5 ironi near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form a longitudinally narrow areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4: 

 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



A. Hind wing pale yellow olivescens. 



B. Hind wing whitish, more or less tinged with brown. 



a. Fore wing of male with the brcnvn of terminal area not 



extending up into the cell between orbicular and reniform, 



female with brown band beyond the antemedial line insocia. 



b. Fore wing of male with the brown of terminal area extend- 



ing up into the cell between orbicular and reniform, 



female without brown band beyond the antemedial line... burmana. 



6088. Metapioplasta olivescens, n. sp. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 3.) 



(^ . Head, tegulse, and patagia white; palpi, frons, antennse, 

 and thorax dark olive-brown ; pectus and legs pale yellow, 

 the fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale yellow tinged with brown. Fore wing olive-brown with 



