116 N0CTUIDJ5. 



in centre hollowed out in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male with 

 fasciculate cilia ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair only and without 

 crests ; pectus and legs clothed with long hair, the 1st joint of fore tarsi with 

 two long claw-like spines ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral 

 fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the 

 termen evenly curved ; veins 'S 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



2215. Harpagophana hilaris. 



Metopoceras hilaris, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 275 (1894); id. Cat. Lep. pal, 

 p. 176. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons fuscous ; tegulse irrorated with fuscous ; tarsi 

 fuscous with slight pale rings. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark spots at costa and 

 median nervure ; antemedial line represented by a series of small 

 indistinct dark spots, double below submedian fold ; orbicular small 

 indistinctly defined by fuscous, round, confluent with antemedial 



Fig. 30. — Harpciffophana hilaris, c? . 



line ; reniform an indistinct narrow lunule defined by fuscous, with 

 oblique fuscous bar from costa to it and dark spot at lower angle of 

 cell ; postmedial line very indistinct, minutely dentate, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; traces of an antemedial line with diffused dark 

 marks below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing grey uniformly sufl^used with fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside grey- white irrorated with brown, traces of a 

 curved postmedial line. 



JIab. Spain, Murcia, Guadarrama, 1 c? , 1 ? . Ew^. 32 millim. 



Genus METOPOCERAS. 



Type. 

 Metopoceras, Guen. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2nd series viii. p. xviii 



(1850) felicina. 



Phorocera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 31 (1850) canteneri. 



Proboscis fuUy developed ; palpi upturned, short, fringed with long hair in 

 front; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and corneous process 

 from centre slightly hollowed out at extremity ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of male laminate ; head and thorax thickly clothed with hair mixed with scales, 

 the vertex of head slightly crested, the metathorax with thick crest ; pectus and 

 legs clothed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without 



