METAPIOPLASTA. 721 



series of black striae slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia 

 with more or less white below apex and at middle. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the termen tinged with brown from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with red-brown marks on costal area before 

 and beyond middle and at apex, and a discoidal point. 



$ . Head and thorax tinged with grey ; fore wing with the 

 basal half suffused with grey, leaving some white beyond lower 

 part of subbasal line, a quadrate patch from costa to between 

 orbicular and reniform connected by a streak above reniform with 

 a triangular patch beyond the postmedial line, the antemedial line 

 appearing as a single white line ; hind wing whitish suffused with 

 brown especially towards termen. 



Hub. S. Leone (Mo)-gan, Foxcroft, Clements, Dadgeon), 5 c? , 5 5 , 

 type and tj^^pes conemnula and pyralina ; Gold Coast, Accra 

 (Garter), 1 $ ; Nigeria, Lagos (Boag), 1 §, Borgu, Yelwa L. 

 {Migeod), 1 S ; Sokotra, Hadibu Plain (O.-Grant), 1 c? ; Bk. E. 

 Africa, Tana R. (Grawshai/), 1 d" , Xikuyu, Fort Smith (Grawshag), 

 1 (S ,1^ air ohi (GraivsJiag), 1 c5" , Athi-y a-Mawe (Betton), 1 d' , 1 $ , 

 Affuddu (Betton), 1 d" , Voi (Betton), 1 5 ; Uganda, Euwenzori 

 ( WoUaston), 1 $ ; Bechtjanaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 (^ ; Trans- 

 vaal, White R. (Goolce), I $ ; Ceylon, Hambantota (Pole), 1^,1$. 

 Exp. 20-24 millim. 



6090. Metapioplasta burmana. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 4.) 



Agrophila burmana, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xt. p. 153 (1905). 



6 . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi blackish at tips ; 

 frons tinged with grey ; antennae brown ; metathorax with lateral 

 black marks; fore tibiae and the tarsi banded brown and white; 

 abdomen creamy white with dorsal brown bands. Pore wing 

 creamy white ; the basal half of costal area olive-brown interrupted 

 by two subbasal white striae from costa and the white filling of the 

 double antemedial line which is slightly bent inwards to costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform very small, the former defined by brown 

 above only, the latter with elliptical brown annulus ; terminal area 

 red-brown mixed with some purplish grey ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique brown striga on the white area and a black- 

 brown sinuous line on the dark area, very strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by some yellowish white 

 scales with black -brown marks before and beyond them, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal 

 series of black points defined on inner side by white striaj ; cilia 

 with some white below apex and at middle. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with red-brown especially towards termen ; a dark dis- 

 coidal point ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; the under- 

 side with dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line 

 with yellowish marks before and beyond it on costa. 



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