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*2219. Metopoceras gaucleri. (Plate XCIX. fig. 8.) 



Metopoceros gaucJdcri, Pilng. Iris, svii. p. 267 (1904). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white faintly tinged 

 "with rufous ; antennse brown ; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore 

 wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ; a pale red-brown 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line pale 

 red-brown, diffused, oblique, slightly waved ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular a small brownish spot ; reniform a brown spot on the 

 diffused reddish-brown medial line, which is excurved from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 

 4, then incurved, the area beyond it tinged with reddish, brown 

 with some whitish points on costa ; traces of a curved subterminal 

 minutely waved line ; a terminal series of slight rufous strise. Hind 

 wing ochreous suffused with brown ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white with small dark discoidal spot and diffused brown band just 

 before termen from vein 3 to tornus. 



Hah. Palestine, Jordan, typef $ in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



2220. Metopoceras chalildja. 



Metopoceras JchaUldja, Oberth. Et. Ent. is. p. 38, pi. 3. f. 1 (1884) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with ferruginous and sparsely 

 irrorated with black scales ; the hair on pectus and legs pinkish ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous ; 

 the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black; some black suffusion before the ante- 

 medial line, which is oblique waved ; orbicular represented by a 

 small black spot, the reniform by two spots ; a diffused black medial 

 shade ; postmedial line double towards costa, bent outAvards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 and excurved 

 -at vein 1 ; some brown suffusion beyond it ; subterminal line 

 represented by a blackish mark from costa, then by a few scales ; a 

 terminal series of black strife ; cilia Avhitish with rufous punctiform 

 line near base and fine line near tips. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with some greyish hair at base ; cilia pale brownish with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside brownish grey thickly irrorated 

 with large black scales, a slight discoidal point and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Algeria, 1 S . Exp. 32 millim. 



2221. Metopoceras omar. 



Cleophana omar, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 57 ; id. Et. Ent. xii. 



p. 31, pi. 5. f. 15 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 

 Metopoceras maritima, Failla, Ted. Nat. Sic. x. p. 31, pi. 1. f. 8 (1890). 

 Metopoceras felix, Stndf. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 361. 

 Metopoceras sacra, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 281, pi. 9. f. 16 (1894). 

 Metopoceras caspica, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 171 (1895). 



