METALOniA, 



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Genus METALOPHA. ,p 



Type. 

 Mefcdojpha, Srand. Iris, iv. p. 313 (1891) liturata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, frioged with rough 

 liair in front, tlie 3rd joint short ; frons with large corneous prominence with 

 raised edges, its lower edge produced into a trilobate process ; eyes large, 

 rounded, antennas of male simple, laminate ; head and thorax clothed with 

 rough hair, the vertex of head with large crests, the pro- and metathorax with 

 double crests ; pectus and tibise clothed with long hair; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing 

 with tlie apex somewhat produced, the ternien obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; (i fr m upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

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

 cell; 5 rather strong from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Head, thorax, and fore wing largely suffused with purplish 



pink gloriosa. 



B. Head, thorax, and fore wing oli\e-brown and white without 



pink suffusion liturata. 



2202. Metalopha gloriosa. (Plate XCIX. fig. 6.) 



Metalopha gloriosa, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 314, pi. 4. f. 7 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 223. 



(S . Head and thorax purplish pink more or less mixed with 

 grey-white ; abdomen grej'-white mixed with fuscous and olive- 

 yellow, the lateral fringes and ventral surface purplish pink. Fore 

 wing with the veins purplish grey ; the basal area dark olive-green ; 

 the antemedial line line, grey, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then shghtly incurved ; the medial area suffused with purplish 

 pink and grey with some dark irroration ; orbicular and reniform 

 very small, defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow ; 

 postmedial line grey, very oblique, slightly excurvcd from costa to 

 vein 4, then slightly incurved, an olive-green band beyond it : the 

 terminal area purplish pink with some dark irroration ; a terminal 

 scries of slightly darker lunules ; cilia purplish pink and grey with 

 some dark schIcs. Hind wing olive-brown ; a discoidal spot 

 slightly defined by white ; a faint diffused medial greyish band ; 

 terminal area slightly tinged with pink : cilia pink with series of 

 brown spots ; the underside pink or whitish suffused with pink and 

 with some dark irroration, a dark discoidal point. 



Bab. Asia jMinor, Taurus, 1 J ; Sybia, Mardin ; Palestike ; 

 Mesopotamia, 1 J . E.rjj. 'SO millim. 



2203. Metalopha liturata. 



Megalodes liturata, Christ. Eom. Mein. iii. p. 89, pi. 4. f. 10 (1887) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



Metalopha flusina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 313, pi. 4. f. S (1891). 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with olive-green. 



